Audible, BBC Radio and Fane Productions
For over a decade, Fiona has worked with leading content producers, to create and host arts documentaries and interviews featuring actors, directors, writers, and sports stars.
“Fiona has a passion and deep expertise that opens up the worlds of theatre and entertainment for wide audiences. I worked with Fiona to turn her ideas into documentaries for BBC Radio and learned such a lot from observing her interviewing people. She brings a sensitive and gentle tenacity that wins the trust of her interviewees while drawing out wonderful and surprising insights.”
– Peggy Sutton, Managing Partner, Somethin’ Else Productions
Projects
In the Studio: Rufus Norris
Rufus Norris and the cast and crew of Small Island talk about recreating the Caribbean migrant experience portrayed in the well-known novel by Andrea Levy.
Arts broadcaster and journalist Fiona Lindsay speaks to former National Theatre Artistic Director Rufus Norris, as well as members of the cast and crew, to explore the technical and creative challenges of this epic production.
Produced by Nightjar for BBC World Service.
Critic’s Choice/Pick of the Day/Pick of the Week.
The Half: A Countdown to Performance
The Half – called over the tannoy backstage at the theatre – is the beginning of the countdown to facing an audience. We hear the half-hour countdown over the loudspeaker system, as arts broadcaster and journalist Fiona Lindsay takes us behind the scenes and explores how that crucial half hour before the curtain goes up plays out for performers of all kinds.
Produced by Somethin’ Else for BBC Radio 4.
Critic’s Choice/Pick of the Day/Pick of the Week.
Table Talk
Take one play, one director, one scholar, two actors, a live audience and mix together. Unscripted and unrehearsed, Table Talk brought the rehearsal room into people’s homes.
Produced by Somethin’ Else for BBC Radio 4.
Breaking Bard
Fiona Lindsay listens in on the Table Talk of actors and directors, as they work to bring dramatic productions from page to stage over two epsiodes. The first looks at Shakespeare’s Othello through the prism of the rehearsal room. The second explores the staging of the York Mystery Plays.
Produced by Somethin’ Else for BBC Radio 4.
Finding Kate
Fiona Lindsay talks to actors Simon Scardifield and Lisa Dillon about playing Kate in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.
Produced by Somethin’ Else for BBC Radio 2.
Creative Forces, Creative Development
The veteran Liverpudlian comedian Ken Dodd writes very long jokes and tells shaggy dog stories. The erudite Oxford writer Colin Dexter, crossword king and creator of Inspector Morse, is economic with words and concise in his chapters. Yet they are each other's greatest admirers. Fiona Lindsay, who knows them both, had the inspired idea to bring them together for the first time. In this programme they compare notes, exchange tips, presenting a double act on stage before a packed hall at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
Produced by Culture Wise for BBC Radio 4.
Critic’s Choice/Pick of the Day/Pick of the Week.
Creative Forces
Comedian Dawn French and actress Juliet Stevenson discuss with Fiona Lindsay how their peripatetic military childhoods helped to shape their professional lives.
Produced by Culture Wise for BBC Radio 4.
Critic’s Choice/Pick of the Day/Pick of the Week.
Character Assassins
The death of fictional superstars by pen, pencil, or type lies, quite literally, in the hands of their creators.
At the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival 2010, Fiona Lindsay conducts a forensic cross-examination of popular writers, put on trial to reveal their motives for killing off their leading characters.
Produced by Culture Wise for BBC Radio 4.
Critic’s Choice/Pick of the Day/Pick of the Week.
Talking About Character
Fiona Lindsay interviews Professor Carol Rutter about the character of Kate in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.
Nadiya Hussain: Finding My Voice
Fiona Lindsay interviews Nadiya Hussain, live on stage, to celebrate the publication of her memoir Finding My Voice.
The TV presenter, chef and bestselling author considers her roles as mother, Muslim, working woman, and celebrity, questioning the barriers that many women must cross to be accepted or heard.
In her own warm, honest and humorous way, Nadiya highlights how, at the core of it all, we are essentially tackling the same issues despite our cultural, social and religious differences.
A Live Stream with Lady Glenconner
Lady Glenconner has spent her life as a close friend of the royal family; she was Maid of Honour at the Queen’s Coronation and was subsequently appointed Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret. Her worldwide bestselling memoir Lady In Waiting detailed her story, capturing a generation, a social class, and a first-hand view of royal life.
Lady Glenconner joins Arts interviewer, broadcaster, and producer Fiona Lindsay for a perfect evening of escapism.
“I was delighted when I heard Fiona Lindsay was going to interview me as she always takes so much trouble to get everything right. She had read all my books, her questions were spot on and she made me feel very comfortable.” - Lady Glenconner
An Afternoon with Anton du Beke
Household name and all-round entertainer Anton Du Beke is one of the most instantly recognisable dancers today, best known for his role on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, on which he has featured since its conception in 2004.
But Anton is also a Sunday Times bestselling novelist. This is a festive celebration of his new book A Christmas to Remember – Anton’s third novel, set in the exclusive Buckingham Hotel – as he is interviewed by arts broadcaster Fiona Lindsay.
A Night in with Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell is the author of over 50 novels, loved universally for their blend of gripping action and meticulous attention to historical details.
Touching on his extraordinarily diverse and varied literary career, and why he decided to return to Sharpe for the first time since 2006, Fiona Lindsay talks to one of our greatest living novelists.
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A Night in with Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell is one of the world’s top bestselling crime authors with novels translated into thirty-six languages in more than 120 countries. In this virtual event, she celebrates the twenty-fifth novel in her electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series about chief medical examiner, Dr. Kay Scarpetta.
In conversation with Fiona Lindsay, Patricia considers the inspiration behind her new book and why she thinks her iconic characters have grown into an international phenomenon. She also shares stories from her career, such as holding her first book signing on her lunchbreak from the morgue, and her intensive research into cutting-edge forensic technologies to include in her work.
Audible: Stephen Fry
Actor, writer, comedian, and national treasure Stephen Fry reveals his love of murder, mystery, and in particular, Sherlock Holmes and Max Carrados.
Audible: Burt Reynolds
Hollywood legend Burt Reynolds gives a rare interview to Fiona Lindsay about how his career began and his friendship with Clint Eastwood.
Tilted Presents: Alexander McCall Smith
One of the world’s most prolific and most popular authors, Alexander McCall Smith, joins Fiona Lindsay in session to discuss the new instalment in his much-loved Scotland Street series, Love in the Time of Bertie.
They delve into Alexander’s illustrious career, his warm-hearted, humorous, and wonderfully wise new novel, and what inspires him to keep writing.
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“Fiona interviewed Lady Anne Glenconner for one of our online events which was a huge success. Fiona came well-prepared and researched, and delivered an engaging and warm interview. The interview was conducted during lockdown in difficult circumstances which Fiona handled with real professionalism and ease, making the job much easier for the production team.”
– Will Kontagyris, Fane Productions