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Geoff has been writing music for radio and TV since 1996.
Below is a list of recent projects:
- The Dark Island
- BBC Radio 4 (2004)
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Afternoon play by Suhayl Saadi.
Rustum is a Doctor from Islamabad. Tortured by the murder
of his wife Ghizala as he wandered in search of quietude, Rustum escapes to the Hebridean island of
Dubh Creag Isle. There he discovers Fenella, a woman who lives in a cliff cave and who's singing
wakes him at night. She too is
haunted by guilt after her mother's drowning. The play explores the
feelings of betrayal as Rustum and Fenella help each other to attain redemption.
- Producer Mark Rickards
- Stowaway
- BBC Radio 4 (2001)
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Afternoon play by Tinika Gupta.
Vikram is a desperate man. He has to get to England to find the woman he
loves and escape the corrupt web of her father. He hides in the wheel
bay of a jumbo jet. Vikram has been told there is a door into the hold,
but finds that he has been cruelly cheated. Onboard, the very man that
has brought about his downfall sips chilled champagne. As the plane
makes its fateful journey we hear the chain of events that have brought
them to take the same flight, but in cruelly different ways. Starring
Madhav Sharma, Paul Bazely and Lolita Chakrabarti.
- Producer Mark Rickards
- Chandra
- BBC Radio 4 (2001)
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Afternoon play written by George W. Fraser about
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the Indian Physicist who published a theory
aged 19 that would change the world of cosmology. Initially ridiculed by
the scientific establishment, Chandras' ideas were to earn him the Nobel
Prize some 50 years later. Starring Saeed Jaffrey as Chandra, the
programme explores the issues of scientific ambition, racial intolerance
and the imperative beauty of ultimate truths. In Chandra's Nobel
acceptance speech he said, without bitterness:
"The simple is
the seal of the true And beauty is the splendour of truth"
- Producer Keith Halden
- The Genesis Factor
- BBC Radio 4 (2000)
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Is there life elsewhere in the Universe, or is it
unique to Earth? A three-part series for BBC Radio 4 on the origin of
life, devised and presented by Professor Paul Davies.
- Producer Louise Dalziel
- Touching the Moon
- BBC Radio Scotland (1999)
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An atmospheric montage programme about Man's desire to
chart the surface of the Moon since the earliest times. From myths and
stories about how the features on the Moon first got their names to how
man first caught sight of the far side.
- Producer Louise Dalziel/Amanda Hargreaves
- Voyages of Descent
- BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio Scotland (1998/9)
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A play for radio by Clare Seal about Captain Robert
Fitzroy, father of modern meteorology, who sailed with Charles Darwin
aboard the Beagle. Narrated by Fenella Fielding and starring James
MacPherson, Robin Thomson and James Bryce, this is a tale of the
conflict between Fitzroy, the ardent creationalist and Darwin, the
evolutionist. The drama is punctuated with creation myths from around
the world, poems on evolutionary landmarks and a brace of sea shanties
- Producer Louise Dalziel
- Camera Obscura
- BBC Radio Scotland (1997)
- A series of dramatic readings and diary entries about the life of
David Octavius Hill, an early pioneering photographer in 19th Century
Edinburgh.
- Producer Louise Dalziel
- Consider the Butterfly
- BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio Scotland (1997)
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A play for Radio by Patricia Hannah featuring the lives
and deaths of some famous philisophers. The great thinkers meet their
maker as Primrose Path completes her pratical training in the Central
Institute under the auspices of her exacting tutor Dr Reaper.
- Producer Louise Dalziel
- HORIZON - Destination Mars
- BBC 2 Television (1997)
- A history of mans exploration of planet Mars. Broadcast as part of
a special evening of programmes to coincide with the Pathfinder mission
landing.
- Producer Max Whitby (The Red, Green and Blue Co.)
- HORIZON - Aliens from Mars
- BBC 2 Television (1996)
- Investigation into the 'fossil' evidence contained in a meteorite
from Mars.
- Producers Max Whitby, Danielle Peck
- Festival of Scots Tongue
- BBC Radio Scotland (1996)
- A week long radio feature celebrating favourite Scottish words
- Producer Steve Martin
- Companion to the Cosmos
- BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio Scotland (1996)
- A 5 programme series on Cosmology presented by John Gribbon.
- Producer Louise Dalziel
- An Ill Wind
- BBC Radio Scotland (1996)
- A montage of news items commemorating the tenth anniversary of the
nuclear accident at Chernoble.
- Producer Keith Halden
- It Couldnt Happen Here
- BBC Radio Scotland (1996)
- A documentary about the return of previously banished diseases in
the Western world.
- Producer Keith Halden
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