Alistair Beaton (born 1947) is a playwright and satirist, journalist, radio presenter, novelist and television writer. At one point in his career he was also a speechwriter for Gordon Brown.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Beaton was educated at the universities of Edinburgh, Moscow and Bochum and graduated from the University of Edinburgh with First-Class Honours in Russian and German. He lives in London.
AlistairBeaton (born 1947) is a playwright and satirist, journalist, radio presenter, novelist and television writer. At one point in his career he was...
was a new translation of Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector by AlistairBeaton, the second was a new play called 5/11, which was produced to mark...
the surviving members of the colony return to Scotland. Caledonia by AlistairBeaton (2010). A satire about the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Scottish...
James Bolam in a new play, Fracked! Or: Please Don't Use the F-Word by AlistairBeaton. The play was revived for a national tour in April and May 2017. From...
Holiday (2014) The Thatcher Papers (New English Library, 1980) (with AlistairBeaton) Andy Hamilton (1994), Drop the Dead Donkey 2000, London: Little, Brown...
"contingent operating difficulty [which is] pompous bollock-speak." AlistairBeaton 2001 ISBN 978-0-7434-0413-6 John Pilger, 'The politics of bollocks'...
Jean Kerr and Eleanor Brooke King of Hearts (2007 play), a satire by AlistairBeaton Search for "King of Hearts" on Wikipedia. All pages with titles beginning...
Festival Theatre produced a new version of the play translated by AlistairBeaton. The UN Inspector (2005) by David Farr is a "freely adapted" version...
Soviet agriculture. In 2015, a translation of the play into English by AlistairBeaton was staged by the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, Edinburgh, directed...
had their early work produced at the theatre include: Mike Bartlett AlistairBeaton Simon Block Al Blyth Jeremy Brock Michael Frayn Brian Friel Rebecca...
The Trial of Tony Blair Created by AlistairBeaton Directed by Simon Cellan Jones Starring Robert Lindsay Phoebe Nicholls Peter Mullan Alexander Armstrong...
types". The novel was adapted for radio in 1981 for BBC Radio 4 by AlistairBeaton, starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter and Maria Aitken as Harriet...
ending contradicted the novel Drop The Dead Donkey 2000 by Hamilton and AlistairBeaton (1994) ISBN 0-316-91236-0, in which the company is almost destroyed...
operation. He was also parodied in the TV comedy Believe Nothing. Satirist AlistairBeaton wrote the television film A Very Social Secretary for Channel 4, which...
Dunbar 2017 Consent by Nina Raine 2016 A View from Islington North by AlistairBeaton, Caryl Churchill, Stella Feehily, David Hare and Mark Ravenhill 2015...
Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey. A six-part radio adaptation by AlistairBeaton was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1979, again with Ian Carmichael...
Alan Wheatley as Lord Peter Wimsey; as an eight-part adaptation by AlistairBeaton for Radio 4 in 1980, with Ian Carmichael as Wimsey; and as a single...
Cook, pp. 23–41 Cook Allan Robertson, Golfer: His Life and Times, by AlistairBeaton Adamson, Worcestershire: Grant Books, 1985. Professional Golf 1819-1885...
Ratepayers' Iolanthe was a 1984 musical adapted by Ned Sherrin and AlistairBeaton. Sherrin directed and won a Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding...
A Planet for the President (2004) is a novel by AlistairBeaton. Set in the not-too-distant future, it satirically ponders the question of what action...
Barry Atkins Geoff Atkinson (1984–1993) David Austin Debbie Barham AlistairBeaton Colin Bostock-Smith Jo Brand (one episode, 1988) Mark Burton (1985–1993)...
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