Radio
RADIO PLAYS (PRODUCED, UNPUBLISHED)
MIX (BBC Radio 3, 5 November 2003), an hour-long play about a Northern Irish thirteen-year-old girl who discovers that she has a rare intersexed condition called Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. A German adaptation was broadcast in Switzerland.
‘Touching, funny.’ – THE GUARDIAN
HUMANS AND OTHER ANIMALS (BBC Radio 4, 10-14 March 2003), a series of five fifteen-minute plays about what animals mean to people. A RADIO TIMES Choice and the DAILY MAIL’s Pick of the Week.
‘The Great Escape’ features a runaway rabbit who disrupts two pensioners’ lives; ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ (the source for Donoghue’s story of the same name) is about an academic couple who insist that his parents should ‘love me, love my dog’; in ‘The Call of the Wild’, a girl struggles with the mysterious behaviour of her animal-rights activist boyfriend; ‘The Cost of Things’, based on Donoghue’s story of the same name, presents the domestic drama sparked off by a vet’s bill; ‘Metamorphosis’ is about a stubborn child who claims to have turned into a horse.
‘Beautiful little vignettes… warm and delicately humorous.’ – RADIO TIMES
EXES (BBC Radio 4, 2001), a series of five fifteen-minute plays about relations between ex-lovers and ex-spouses. ‘Urban Myths’ is about a separated woman writing a thesis on sexual revenge; ‘The Modern Family’ is about the two fathers (biological and non) of a newborn; ‘The Conspiracy’ is about a man getting paranoid about his current girlfriend’s friendship with his last girlfriend; ‘The Mothers’ is about two women fighting over custody of their son; in ‘The Estate Agent’, a couple wanting to buy a house find themselves in the office of his ex.
DON’T DIE WONDERING (BBC Radio 4, 2000), a fifty-minute romantic comedy set in contemporary small-town Ireland, about a lesbian chef who stages a one-woman picket to get her job back.
TRESPASSES (RTE, 1996), a fifty-minute play set in the Irish town of Youghal in the 1660s, inspired by the records of a witch trial.