A dramatic monologue for the 50th anniversary of "Trinity" - the first nuclear bomb
First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland on 16th
July 1995
Duration: 30 minutes
Starring Maurice Denham
Written by George W. Fraser
Original Music by Anthony Phillips and Roger Patterson
Produced by Keith Halden
Scotland has a parliament once more. Three hundred years ago, political union was forced on a bankrupt nation.
Half of Scotland's wealth, and thousands of lives, had been lost in a disastrous venture which attempted to set up a Scottish trading colony in Panama on the Isthmus of Darien.
This tragic story is brought to life as a moving drama for the dawn of devolution.
First broadcast on BBC Radio Four on 7th May
1999.
Duration: 45 minutes
Starring Iain Cuthbertson, Siobhan Redmond, Peter Woodthorpe & James Bryce
Written by Julia Keay
Music by Anthony Phillips
Produced by Keith Halden
This production featured a specially re-mixed version of "Night Song" from Dragonfly Dreams, together with a couple of tracks from Sail The World and some of Ant's regular Library Music.
Bread from the Air, Gold from the Sea
A surreal play by G W Fraser about German chemist Fritz Haber who, in one year, was tried as a war criminal for his invention of poison gas and nominated for a Nobel Prize for creating nitrogen fertilizers.
The drama attempts to get inside Haber's head and in the process tries to make sense of the darkness and light that lies at the heart of all science.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 16th February
2001
Duration: 45 minutes
Starring Andrew Sachs
Written by G W Fraser
Music by Anthony Phillips & Roger Patterson
Produced by Keith Halden
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