Scottish radio director (1947–2020)
Marilyn Elsie Imrie (20 November 1947 – 21 August 2020) was a Scottish theatre and radio drama director and producer.
Career
Marilyn Imrie worked in drama and broadcasting in Scotland and England for over thirty years as a producer and director, for the BBC, ITV and the independent companies Absolutely Productions, Bona Broadcasting, CBL, CIM, Kindle Entertainment and Sweet Talk. She was a drama producer in radio and television in BBC Scotland for twelve years before moving to London to devise and launch the BBC Radio 4 soap Citizens in 1987, then drama commissioning editor for BBC Radio 4 until 1999.
Imrie was a script executive for BBC Scotland Television drama, a drama development executive for three major independent companies and a producer and director in radio drama and in the theatre. She was awarded Sony, TRIC and Talkies awards for her radio production work, the Samuel Beckett Award for television drama for Paris (BBC Scotland for BBC 2) and an RTS Award for her work on the animation series Big & Small, starring Lenny Henry and Imelda Staunton.
Her BBC Radio work included twenty Rumpole plays, twenty-three of The Stanley Baxter Playhouse, eight Two Pipe Problems, four series of Baggage, and the Classic Serials: My Last Duchess, The Book of Love, Great Expectations, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Card, Clarissa, The Lost World and The Heat of the Day. Theatre work includes: Overdue South by Jules Horne for the Traverse Theatre/BBC Scotland, Lie Down Comic by John Mortimer, The Bones Boys by Colin MacDonald for Òran Mór, Elsie and Mairi Go To War by Diane Atkinson, Blow Me Beautiful by Gabriel Quigley and Vicki Liddelle, Daphnis and Chloe adapted by Hattie Naylor for Òran Mór, Mortimer's Miscellany for the Henley Festival, and Prunella Scales and Edward Fox in their theatre entertainment English Eccentrics.
She was joint-chair of the board of Stellar Quines Theatre Company and a trustee of the new writing theatre company Paines Plough.[1]
Imrie divided her working and home life between Edinburgh and London.
Personal life
Daughter of John Campbell Imrie, of Redroofs, Markinch, Fife, Scotland,[2] Marilyn Imrie married twice, the first (to actor Kenny Ireland)[3] ending in divorce, the second in 1985 to the novelist and film-maker James Runcie, the son of Robert Runcie, the former Archbishop of Canterbury.[4] Imrie had two daughters: Rosie Kellagher is a freelance theatre director who won an Arches Award for Directors in 2007,[5] and directed Small Blue Thing,[6] Mother Father Son[7] and Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine for radio; and Charlotte Runcie, a writer and poet.[8] The family lived in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Marilyn Imrie died at home in Edinburgh on 21 August 2020 from motor neurone disease.
Radio plays
Notes:
- ^ Directed by Marilyn Imrie and Jeremy Mortimer
- ^ Directed by Mark Brickman; Produced by Marilyn Imrie
- ^ Directed by Deborah Paige; Produced by Marilyn Imrie
- ^ Directed by Philip Howard; Produced by Marilyn Imrie
- ^ Directed by Marilyn Imrie; Produced by Owen Bell
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Directed by Marilyn Imrie; Produced by Gordon Kennedy
- ^ Directed by Rosie Kellagher; Produced by Marilyn Imrie
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Directed by Marilyn Imrie; Produced by Catherine Bailey
- ^ Directed by Tristram Powell; Produced by Marilyn Imrie
Sources:
- Marilyn Imrie's radio play listing at Diversity website
- Marilyn Imrie's radio play listing at RadioListings website
Stage plays
References
- ^ Stellar Quines Theatre Company – Marilyn Imrie Biography Archived 2 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 106th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1999, p. 2476
- ^ "Obituary: Marilyn Imrie, radio drama producer and theatre director". 10 September 2020.
- ^ "James Runcie interview: Canterbury tales" – The Scotsman, 25 March 2009
- ^ New voices, new directions and no resting on their laurels – Neil Cooper, Herald Scotland, 3 April 2007
- ^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Small Blue Thing
- ^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Mother Father Son
- ^ Charlotte Runcie web site[dead link]
- ^ BBC – Far from the Madding Crowd
- ^ BBC – Little Women
- ^ BBC – Good Wives
- ^ "RADIO / The tides of the Marches: Georgina Brown reports on an adaptation for radio of Louisa May Alcott's classic Good Wives", Georgina Brown, The Independent, 10 February 1993
- ^ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama
- ^ BBC – Saturday Play
- ^ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – Nicholas Nickleby
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Stay!
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play
- ^ BBC – Classic Serial
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – "Rumpole and the Primrose Path"
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – "Rumpole and the Scales of Justice"
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – "Rumpole and the Vanishing Juror"
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – "Rumpole Redeemed"
- ^ BBC – Friday Play
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "Midsummer Mayhem" (repeat)
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "Festival Flatmates" (repeat)
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "Halloween Havoc" (repeat)
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "Fireworks and Funerals" (repeat)
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "Christmas Crises" (repeat)
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "New Year, New Life" (repeat)
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "Cold Call"
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "Cold Call" (repeat)
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "First Impressions" (no details)
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "First Impressions" (repeat – gives details)
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "Mortal Memories" (gives cast, omits title)
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "Mortal Memories" (repeat – gives title, omits cast)
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "Wheeling Them In"
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse– "Wheeling Them In" (repeat)
- ^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Drama
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – "Rumpole and the Teenage Werewolf"
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – "Rumpole and the Right to Privacy"
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "Lovesick and Sickening"
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "Procreation and Procrastination"
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "And So to Bath" (no cast)
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "And So to Bath" (repeat – cast)
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Lover"
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "Highland Fling"
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "Perpetual Emotion"
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "Perpetual Emotion" (repeat – complete cast)
- ^ BBC – Classic Serial – The Card
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – "Rumpole and the Reign of Terror"
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "The Homecoming"
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "Family Matters"
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "The Regeneration Game"
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "Not Quite Part of the Plan"
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "Human Doings"
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "The King's Kilt"
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "Keep Right on to the End of the Road"
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – Pasta Alfreddo at Cafe Alessandro
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "Flying Down to Greenock"
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Life: An Audio Tour
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – The Antisocial Behaviour of Horace Rumpole
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Two Pipe Problems: "A Streetcar Named Revenge"
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Two Pipe Problems: "The Trusty Valet and the Crusty Butler"
- ^ BBC – Drama on 3 – Your Only Man
- ^ BBC – Drama on 3
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "Astonishing Archie"
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "Fife Circle"
- ^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – The Bones Boys
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "The Man in the Garden"
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Two Pipe Problems
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Two Pipe Problems: "Have You Come Far?"
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – "Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders"
- ^ BBC – Saturday Play – Utz
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "Ashes to Auld Reekie"
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "Carping Diem"
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "The Father, the Mother, the Dead Friend and Her Lover"
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "Tales of the Unexpected"
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "For a' that and a' that"
- ^ BBC – Baggage – "You're a Long Time Dead"
- ^ BBC – Classic Serial – Clarissa: The History of a Young Lady
- ^ BBC – Saturday Play – The Jubilee Singers
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Two Pipe Problem 2010: "Right Old Charlie"
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Two Pipe Problem 2010: "The Memory Man Forgets"
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – "Rumpole and the Family Pride"
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – "Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle"
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "The Porter's Story"
- ^ Radio Times – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: "The Porter's Story"
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "The German Pilot"
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "In the Name of the Wee Man"
- ^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – The Bob Servant Emails
- ^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Comedy
- ^ BBC – Classic Serial – The Lost World
- ^ BBC – The Gobetweenies – "Meet The Millers"
- ^ BBC – The Gobetweenies – "Sniffing Stevie and the Gym Horse"
- ^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Sybil Unrest
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine
- ^ URsTV – Play on Bike Inventor Macmillan Archived 31 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ BBC – The Gobetweenies – "Commendation and Competition"
- ^ BBC – The Gobetweenies – "Befriending Freddie"
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Two Pipe Problems: "Here Doggie"
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Two Pipe Problems: "The Case of the Missing Meerschaum"
- ^ BBC – Drama on 3 – Glass Chair Chair Glass
- ^ BBC – Classic Serial – The Heat of the Day
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – "Rumpole and the Man of God"
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – "Rumpole and the Explosive Evidence"
- ^ BBC – 15 Minute Drama – In the Van
- ^ BBC – The Gobetweenies – "The Break-Up"
- ^ BBC – The Gobetweenies – Series 2 Episode 2
- ^ BBC – The Gobetweenies – Series 2 Episode 3
- ^ BBC – The Gobetweenies – "Under the Same Night Stars"
- ^ BBC – The Gobetweenies – "Sex, Guns and Frida Kahlo"
- ^ BBC – The Gobetweenies – "The Next Story"
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – "Rumpole and the Gentle Art of Blackmail"
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – "Rumpole and the Expert Witness"
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "Hector's House of Windsor"
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "The Hat"
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "The Spider"
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Dusty Won't Play
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Mr Bridger's Orphan
- ^ BBC – The Gobetweenies – Series 3 Episode 1
- ^ BBC – The Gobetweenies – Series 3 Episode 2
- ^ BBC – The Gobetweenies – Series 3 Episode 3
- ^ BBC – The Gobetweenies – Series 3 Episode 4
- ^ BBC – The Gobetweenies – Series 3 Episode 5
- ^ BBC – The Gobetweenies – Series 3 Episode 6
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – "Rumpole and the Old Boy Net"
- ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – "Rumpole and the Sleeping Partners"
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "A Dish of Neapolitan"
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "The Showman"
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "Meg's Tale"
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "The Leaving of Barra"
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "The Flying Scotsman"
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "Two Desperate Men"
- ^ BBC – The Stanley Baxter Playhouse – "The Pool"
- ^ Lie Down Comic – Oran Mor, Glasgow – Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 12 March 2007
- ^ Lie Down Comic, Oran Mor, Glasgow – Herald Scotland, 6 March 2007
- ^ The Bones Boys at Oran Mor, Glasgow, for Scotsman Review 28.11.08, Joyce McMillan – Onlinealso published in news.scotsman.com
- ^ The Bones Boys, Oran Mor, Glasgow – Shona Craven, The Herald Scotland, 25 Nov 2008
- ^ Elsie and Mairi Go To War – Diane Atkinson's blog
- ^ Elsie and Mairi Go To War – Press Release
- ^ Stellar Quines – Blow Me Beautiful
- ^ Interview: Marilyn Imrie on Daphnis and Chloe on YouTube
- ^ Daphnis and Chloe, Oran Mor, Glasgow – Alan Chadwick, The Herald Scotland, 9 June 2011
- ^ Daphnis and Chloe at Oran Mor, Glasgow, for Scotsman Arts, 9.6.11, Joyce McMillan – Onlinealso published in news.scotsman.com
- ^ "Clive Conway Celebrity Productions – An Audience With Prunella Scales – English Eccentrics". Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
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