David Ian Neville
David Ian Neville works as a Drama Producer, developing and producing plays and series for BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3. For BBC Wales he produced the drama serial, Station Road, and was a producer on Radio 4's, The Archers. Recent productions for radio include: Black Watch, Dover Beats The Band, Island Blue & Juba FM. He has also written for radio, TV and theatre. Writing credits include, Inside for BBC Radio 4, and the award winning TV plays, Martha & The Audition for STV. Theatre plays include the Fringe First Award winning play Exile, Across The Barricades, Refuseniks, A Deafening Silence & Leaving Berehovo.[1]
Radio Plays
editRadio Plays Directed or Produced by David Ian Neville | |||||
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Date first broadcast | Play | Author | Cast | Synopsis Awards |
Station Series |
10 January 2005 – 21 January 2005 | The Gowk Storm | Nancy Brysson Morrison | Gabriel Quigley, Molly Innes, Vicki Liddelle, John Shedden, Eileen McCallum, Iain Agnew, Molly Innes, Gerda Stevenson, Simon Donaldson and Finlay McLean | A drama about three free-spirited sisters sisters who live in a remote rural manse with their stern father, a minister, and their cheerful, but rather vague mother in the Highlands of the late 19th century. | BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama[2] |
2005-- | Dover and the Claret Tappers[3] | Joyce Porter dramatised by Paul Mendelson | [[]], [[]] and [[]] | When Inspector Dover is kidnapped, the mood at Scotland Yard is one of jubilation. | BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play[4] |
25 December 2005 | The Hidden Gift: Left at the Lights | Jules Horne | BBC Radio Scotland Drama | ||
5 April 2006 | Fresh Blood: Inner Critic | Jules Horne | There's a carping, spiteful wee voice in Danni's ear crushing her spirit. Imaginary or real, can Danni get rid of her all too vicious inner critic? | BBC Radio 7 | |
8 June 2006 | Island Blue: A Place in the Rain | Jules Horne | Sarah Collier, Rose McBain, Lucy Paterson and Lesley Hart | Self-made millionaire, Bren, finds more questions than answers in the island's solitude. Shonagh wants to get on the property ladder but will the in-comer spoil her dream? | BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama |
13 October 2007 | Dover Beats the Band[5] | Joyce Porter dramatised by Paul Mendelson | Kenneth Cranham, Stuart McQuarrie, Joanna Tope, Michael Mackenzie, Finlay McLean, Nick Underwood, Lucy Paterson and Samantha Young | Inspector Dover, with less than total enthusiasm, investigates the murder of a mild-mannered philatelist in a holiday camp. His sergeant, however, cares a bit too much. But as the investigation begins to uncover a sinister conspiracy, even Scotland Yard's laziest detective becomes determined to catch the killer. | BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play |
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9 August 2008 | Dover and the Unkindest Cut of All[6] | Joyce Porter dramatised by Paul Mendelson | Kenneth Cranham, Stuart McQuarrie, Philip Madoc, Carolyn Pickles, Gareth Armstrong, Ben Crowe, Jennifer Hill and Siwan Morris | Chief Inspector Dover's annual seaside break becomes a busman's holiday with the death of a local policeman. Was it suicide and was it linked to the recent murder of a well-known gangster? It's another strange case for Scotland Yard's laziest detective. | BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play[7] |
16 February 2009 | All at Sea[8] | Colin MacDonald | Grant O'Rourke, Maynard Azianshi, Claire Knight, John Macaulay and Nick Underwood | David Murdoch is on a post-redundancy cruise in the Indian Ocean. Facing an uncertain future but with a healthy payoff, he is enjoying the holiday of a lifetime when the ship runs into trouble off the pirate-ridden coast of Somalia. | BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play[9] |
15 March 2009 – 22 March 2009 | Sunset Song[10] | Lewis Grassic Gibbon dramatised by Gerda Stevenson | Lesely Hart, Douglas Russell, Finn den Hertog, Bridget McCann, Liam Brennan, Shonagh Price, Matthew Zajac, Sally Reid, Estrid Barton, Fraser Sivewright, Keith Hutcheon and Gordon Brandie | In north-east Scotland before and during the First World War, Chris Guthrie is torn between her love of the land and her ambition to become a teacher. As Chris' domineering father struggles with the harshness of the land, her mother's fear of childbirth leads her to despair. | BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial[11] |
16 January 2010 | Dover and the Sleeping Beauty[12] | Paul Mendelson | Kenneth Cranham, Stuart McQuarrie, Philip Whitchurch, Colleen Prendergast, Shaun Prendergast, Geraldine McNulty, Debbie Arnold, Ross Adams and Cesca Bonetti | Comedy thriller set in the 1960s, featuring Scotland Yard's most unwanted man, Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover, and his long-suffering gofer, Sergeant McGregor. A young woman, Isabel Slatcher, has been in an irreversible coma for months after being shot outside her local church in a small northern town. Now she has been smothered - murdered. Who killed her? Was it the person that shot her and why have they waited until now to complete their evil crime? | BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play |
12 November 2011 | Bar Mitzvah Boy[13] | Jack Rosenthal adapted by Amy Rosenthal | Hugo Raine, Tracy-Ann Oberman, David Horovitch, Andrew Sachs, Susannah Wise, Jonathan Tafler, Peter Majer, Maya Gerber, Sam Cummings and Rabbi Mark L. Solomon | A boy is about to have his Bar Mitzvah – the ceremony in which a thirteen year old becomes a man in the Jewish faith. | BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play |
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edit- ^ [1]
- ^ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama
- ^ BBC – Saturday Play – Dover and the Claret Tappers
- ^ BBC – Saturday Play
- ^ BBC – Saturday Play – Dover Beats the Band
- ^ BBC – Saturday Play – Dover and the Unkindest Cut of All
- ^ BBC – Saturday Play
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – All at Sea
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play
- ^ BBC – Classic Serial – Sunset Song
- ^ BBC – Classic Serial
- ^ BBC – Saturday Play – Dover and the Sleeping Beauty
- ^ BBC – Saturday Play – Bar Mitzvah Boy