Gaynor Macfarlane is a theatre and radio drama director, and producer for BBC Radio Drama at Pacific Quay, Glasgow.
Career Macfarlane directed the first up to the eleventh radio series of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
In the theatre, Macfarlane has directed Wit by Margaret Edson, Folie à Trois by Sarah Wooley and The Past is not a Place by Beatrice Colin for the Stellar Quines Theatre Company; The Birds by Aristophanes and After the Rain by Sergi Belbel at the Gate Theatre; The House of Desires by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Burdalane by Judith Adams at the Battersea Arts Centre; Damon and Pythias at the Globe and Helen at the RNT Studio.
She has been Literary Manager of the Gate Theatre, Script Advisor at the National Theatre and Dramaturg at the Globe during its first season. She also translated plays for the Almeida and Chichester Festival Theatre.
Radio plays Radio Plays Directed or Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane Date first broadcast Play Author Cast SynopsisAwards StationSeries : BBC – The Late Story – A Living Legend Claire Benedict An ageing singer gives what may be her last performance. BBC Radio 4 The Late Story Rebus: Let It Bleed BBC – The Afternoon Play – Rebus: Let It BleedBBC – The Afternoon Play – Rebus: Let It Bleed dramatised by Alexander Morton, Caroline Loncq, James Bryce, Sarah Collier, Crawford Logan, Steven McNicoll, Sandy Neilson, Ann-Louise Ross, Doug Russell, Wendy Seager and Robin Thomson A dramatic car chase ends in death and sparks an investigation by Detective Inspector Rebus that plunges deep into the very heart of local government uncovering political corruption and insider dealing. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play So Much Blood dramatised by Bill Nighy, Jimmy Chisholm and John Paul Hurley Charles Paris takes his one-man show to the 1999 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, filling a vacant spot at a student venue which is a hotbed of behind-the-scenes drama, until a stage dagger turns murderously into a real one. BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play BBC – Saturday Play BBC – Afternoon Play – The Rocks BelowBBC – Radio Times – Afternoon Play: The Rocks Below Deirdre Davis, Mairl Gillespie, Derek McGhie, Gayanne Potter, Simon Tait and Paul Young On a small Scottish island in the 1950s, identical twins are forced by the imminent death of their father to confront a secret. BBC Radio 4Afternoon Play – abridged by Buffy Davis, Geraldine James and Elizabeth McGovern A meditation on love, loss and time. Echoing Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, it gives a moving and eloquent account of one day in the lives of three very different women. BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama BBC – Woman's Hour Drama Summer Sectioned Lorelei King and Colin Stinton An elegiac and moving encounter with the woman who was the muse of playwright Tennessee Williams – his sister Rose. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play BBC – Afternoon Play – BBC – Radio Times – Woman's Hour Drama: The Weight of Water dramatised by Nancy Crane, Derbhle Crotty, Emma Fielding, Karl Johnson, Page Marshall, Isobel Middleton, Stuart Milligan and Simon Scardlfleld On the night of 5 March 1873, two women, both Norwegian emigrants, were murdered on the Isles of Shoals. In the present day, a newspaper photographer discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an eyewitness account of the murders. BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama Zander's Boat Vicki Masson, Rose McBain and Wendy Seager Three generations of Shetland women reflect on their lives, on love and loss. Edith is coming to terms with the death of her son, Sylvia prays for a miracle, and Marie is finding the courage to live alone. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play Wit adapted for radio by Nancy Crane, Jasmine Hyne, John McGlynn, Stuart Milligan, Margaret Robertson, John Sharian, Adam Sims and Tracy Wiles A brilliant scholar discovers that she has cancer and, through several courses of exhausting chemotherapy treatments, is forced to learn about wit, compassion and – finally – death. BBC Radio 4 Zeitgeist Man Forbes Masson, Liam Brennan, Gayanne Potter, Eileen McCallum, Chris Young, Jo James and Cora Bissett A biting comedy about writing, the media and the dream of catching the zeitgeist. Unsuccessful novelist, Hugh Crombie, inadvertently offers an idea to aspiring writer, Dekky Duff. A year passes and Dekky is hailed as the new sensation Scottish writer. He is the real thing, a genuine working class hero, a hospital porter turned novelist. Hugh is enraged and sets out to convince the world that he is the true Zeitgeist Man. BBC Radio 4 Friday Play BBC – Friday Play King of Shadows BBC – Radio Times – Afternoon Play: King of Shadows dramatised by Buffy Davis, Sally Dexter, Tom George, Robert Glenister, Martin Hyder, Adam Sims and Andrew Woodall A magical adventure story set both in the present day and in Elizabethan England. Chosen to play Puck in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe, young American Nat Field travels to London. Visiting the theatre for the first time, he falls seriously ill. When he awakes, he finds that he has gone back 400 years in time. BBC Radio 4Afternoon Play Turtle Diary BBC – Radio Times – The Saturday Play: Turtle Diary dramatised by Geraldine James, Bill Nighy, Suzanne Heathcote, Martin Hyder, Isobel Middleton and Graham Turner The turtles in London Zoo become the mutual obsession of two lonely strangers who dream of setting free the turtles and themselves. BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play – Precious Bane BBC – Radio Times – Classic Serial: Precious Bane dramatised by Louise Breckon-Richards, Laura Doddington, Owen Teale, Julia Ford, Tom Goodman-Hill, Helen Schlesinger, Maggie Steed, Nigel Terry and Timothy Watson Prue Sam is born "hare shotten" and it is this hare lip that is her "precious bane". She is torn between loyalty to her recklessly ambitious brother, Gideon, and a deep unexpressed love for the weaver Kester Woodseaves. BBC Radio 4Classic Serial William Barlow, Kate Dickie, Tony Kearney, Gary Lewis, Steven McNicoll, Nick Underwood and Wendy Seager A refugee boy is chased into the River Clyde. When a local lad leaps in to save him, both are trapped under a wharf building. In the time that it takes for the tide to change, and for a rescue to be mounted, truths are revealed about the boys, their families and the city in which they live. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play Mapping the Heart BBC – Radio Times – Afternoon Play: Mapping the Heart Gayanne Potter, Stuart Milligan, Monica Gibb, Paul Young and Lewis Howden An adventure story set in 1950 in the Brazilian rainforest. Scots-born Kristina Morrison is thrown together with opinionated American Ray Epstein when their light aircraft crashes in the jungle. Kristina finds herself torn between two men: Ray and her explorer father Felix. BBC Radio 4Afternoon Play Soft Fall the Sounds of Eden Frances Grey, Patricia Kerrigan, Phyllida Law, Cal Macaninch, Shauna Macdonald, Colette O'Neil and Iain Robertson What is Paradise? The hot Dumfries countryside in late summer is transformed into a Garden of Eden of sorts as diverse groups of locals enjoy the sunshine and reflect on their lives.