Colin MacDonald was born in 1956 in
Inverness
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,
Scotland
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. He is a prolific
writer
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for
television
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and
radio
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. Television credits include ''
The Dunroamin' Rising'' (
BBC1
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), ''
The Gift'' (
BBC1
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), ''
The Wreck on the Highway'' (
BBC1
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), ''
Sharpe's Honour'' (
ITV) and episodes in the series ''
Blue Murder'' (
ITV), ''
Heartbeat'' (
ITV), ''
Casualty'' (
BBC1
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), and ''Para Handy'' (
BBC1
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).
Radio
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credits include ''
Killing the Butterfly'' (
BBC Radio 4
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), ''
Hill of Rains'' (
BBC Radio 4
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), ''The Colour of Summer'' (
BBC Radio 4
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), ''King of Hearts'' (
BBC Radio Scotland
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), ''
The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: The Hat'' (
BBC Radio 4
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) and ''
Calum's Road'' (
BBC Radio 4
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). In 2021,
BBC Radio 4
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aired a full-cast adaptation of C. J. Sansom's mystery novel ''
Lamentation
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'', dramatised by MacDonald, with Justin Salinger starring as Shardlake.
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1956 births
Scottish television writers
Scottish radio writers
People from Inverness
Living people
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