Graeme Fife
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Graeme Fife is a prolific English writer, playwright and broadcaster. His first career was as a schoolmaster and university lecturer.
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Education
Fife was educated at schools in London and Durham University, where he gained a General Arts degree with first class honours in Greek language and literature.
Teaching career
- Head of Classics for one year at a school in Lancashire
- Head of Classics at Gresham's School, Holt, from 1970 to 1978
- Lecturer in Greek and Roman literature, University of Reading
Publications
Books
- Polly Polestar (Ginn & Co., 1989)
- The Wrong Side of the Bed (Ginn & Co., 1988) ISBN 0-602-28462-7
- Story in anthology: The Man in Black (1990)
- Arthur the King: a study of mediaeval romance in its social, literary and historical context (BBC Books, 1990, ISBN 0-563-21510-0)
- George Francis: Trainer of Champions (with George Francis, Mainstream, 1998, ISBN 1-84018-059-5)
- Tour de France: the history, the legend, the riders (Mainstream, 1999, ISBN 1-84018-918-5)
- Tour de France: Tour de Souffrance (translated from the French of Albert Londres, Cycle Sport, 1999)
- Inside the Peloton: Riding, Winning and Losing the Tour de France (2001, ISBN 1-84018-672-0)
- The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine, France 1792-1794 (2004, ISBN 0-7499-5005-6)
- Bob Chicken: A Passion for the Bike (2005, ISBN 0-9551225-0-3)
- Great Road Climbs of the Pyrenees (Rapha, 2006)
- The Beautiful Machine (2007, ISBN 1-84596-241-9)
- Angel of the Assassination (novel) (Merit, 2009)
- Great Road Climbs of the Southern Alps (Rapha, 2010)
- Brian Robinson, Pioneer (Mousehold Press 2010)
- Great Road Climbs of the Northern Alps (Rapha 2011)
Plays
- Praise Be to God (performed by Edward de Souza Orange Tree, London, 1987)
- Reg (performed by Edward de Souza, Orange Tree, 1987)
- The Great French Revolution Show (Deia Majorca, 1984)
- Lysistrata by Aristophanes (translated and adapted, Deia Majorca, 1984)
- The Silver Nutmeg (musical, with Peter Thorne)
- Grimaldi (musical drama, with Peter Thorne)
- Once Upon a Time... (dramatic song sequence for narrator and singers, with Peter Thorne)
- The Andria (translation from The Andria of Terence, with Sebastian Eden) (Gresham's School)
- The Weaker Sex (Southampton)
- Gesualdo (Edinburgh, London, Melbourne)
- Mr Shakespeare...Mr Liebowitz (Deià, Majorca)
- Jam (London, Edinburgh, Swindon)
- The Door (opera) France
Screenplays
- Chavasse Park (promotional film for architectural development in Liverpool)
- Ghosts of Deptford (six short films about celebrated denizens of Deptford)
Radio Scripts
- Elias Howe
- Some thirty Stories about composers, Monologues and Duologues
- Snipe 607
- Earth to Earth
- Vivaldi
- Revolutionary Portraits
- The Whisper of the Axe
- Arthur the King
- La Mogador
- The March of the Ten Thousand
- The Misfortune at Seaham
- A Breath of Fresh Air
- Pearls Go with Pearls (script consultant)
- Godslots
- Surviving Wagner
- St Cecilia of Sicilia
- Wilf
- Cat’s Whiskers, six short playlets
- The Figaro Letters
- The Athenian Trireme
- Doggett’s Coat and Badge
- The Night Stairs
- Timbuktu: Drowning in Sand
- Vegetarian Cyclists
- over a hundred scripts for Pause for Thought
- Bikesongs
- Bicycle Music
- Saint-Saëns, Samson et Dalila and the Lost Glory
- The Fighting Temeraire, The Battle and the Breeze
- The Sweetness of the Garden
- Spem in Alium
- Beau Geste (adapted for R4 Classic Serial)
- Robert Graves and Myth R3 Essays
Other
- 'The View from the Oarbench' in Frank Welsh, Building the Trireme (Constable, 1988)
References
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from August 2015
- Use British English from August 2015
- English non-fiction writers
- English radio writers
- English dramatists and playwrights
- Alumni of Durham University
- People educated at Gresham's School
- Year of birth missing (living people)
- Living people
- Place of birth missing (living people)
- English male dramatists and playwrights
