Kate McAll is an executive producer of radio drama at BBC Wales. There she is a radio director and producer for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4.[1] Her credits include How I Live Now (Radio 3) and The Worst Journey in the World (Radio 4), along with seven Torchwood radio episodes.
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| 28 July 2008 | Goldengrove[2] | Frances Byrnes | Jill Balcon, Jessica Jolleys, Siriol Jenkins, Beccy Alexander and Brendan Charleson | Story of the relationship between a young working-class girl and the woman who transforms her. Margaret, a spinster, teaches Narn, a city child, how to shake hands firmly, polish silver and identify birds. Most of all, she teaches her how to speak. | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play[3] | |
| 21 November 2009 | The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial[4] | Adapted from the original trial transcript by Peter Goodchild | In 1925 this was one of the most unusual trials ever seen in a United States courtroom. Counsel for the Prosecution was three-time Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan, a Christian Fundamentalist. For the defence was Chicago lawyer, and declared agnostic, Clarence Darrow, who had recently saved two brutal child killers from the death penalty.Earlier that year Tennessee had passed a law forbidding the teaching of evolution.In the stifling heat of July 24-year-old teacher John Scopes stood trial. | BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play[5] | ||
| 14 March 2011 | The Gun Goes to Hollywood[6] | Mike Walker | Steven Weber, Greg Itzin, Kate Steele, Jonathan Silverman, Jonathan Getz, Andre Sogliuzzo and Tom Virtue | Imagines the behind-the-scenes ructions from the notoriously troubled set of The Pride and the Passion, Hollywood's 1957 adaptation of The Gun, by C S Forester. Frank Sinatra left the production early because of marriage difficulties with Ava Gardner, and Cary Grant, then 53, fell in love with his co-star Sophia Loren, 23. | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play | |
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