Colin MacDonald (writer)

Not to be confused with the British Historian and Author Colin MacGilp MacDonald.
For other people named Colin MacDonald, see Colin MacDonald.

Colin MacDonald was born in 1956 in Inverness, Scotland. He is a prolific writer for television and radio. Television credits include The Dunroamin' Rising (BBC1),[1] The Gift (BBC1),[2] The Wreck on the Highway (BBC1),[3] Sharpe's Honour (ITV) and episodes in the series Blue Murder (ITV), Heartbeat (ITV), Casualty (BBC1), and Para Handy (BBC1). Radio credits include Killing the Butterfly (BBC Radio 4),[4] Hill of Rains (BBC Radio 4), The Colour of Summer (BBC Radio 4), King of Hearts (BBC Radio Scotland),[5] The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: The Hat (BBC Radio 4) and Calum's Road (BBC Radio 4). In 2021, BBC Radio 4 aired a full-cast adaptation of C. J. Sansom's mystery novel Lamentation, dramatised by MacDonald, with Justin Salinger starring as Shardlake.[6]

  1. ^ BBC – Radio Times – The Play on One: The Dunroamin' Rising
  2. ^ BBC – Radio Times – The Play on One: The Gift
  3. ^ BBC – Radio Times – The Play on One: The Wreck on the Highway
  4. ^ Killing the Butterfly, BBC. Retrieved 21 July 2010
  5. ^ King of Hearts, BBC Radio Scotland, 10 February 2006
  6. ^ "Shardlake:Lamentation". BBC. Retrieved 18 January 2021.