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Colin MacDonald (writer)

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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]

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  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.
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