Graeme Fife

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Graeme Fife is a prolific English writer, playwright and broadcaster. His first career was as a schoolmaster.

Contents 1 Education 2 Teaching career 3 Writer 3.1 Books by Graeme Fife 3.2 Plays by Graeme Fife 3.3 Screenplays by Graeme Fife 3.4 Radio Scripts by Graeme Fife 4 References

[edit] Education

Fife was educated at schools in Durham and Durham University, where he gained a first class Honours degree in Greek.

[edit] Teaching career

• Head of Classics for one year at a school in Lancashire
• Classics master at Gresham's School, Holt from 1970 to 1979
• Lecturer in Greek and Roman literature, University of Reading

[edit] Writer

[edit] Books by Graeme Fife

• Building the Trireme (with appendix: The View from the Oarbench) (Constable, 1988)
• Polly Polestar (Ginn & Co., 1989)
• The Wrong Side of the Bed (Ginn & Co., 1988) ISBN 0-602-28462-7
• The Man in Black (1990)
• Arthur the King: a study of mediaeval romance in its social, literary and historical context (BBC Books, 1990) ISBN 0-563-21510-0
• George Francis: Trainer of Champions (with George Francis, Mainstream, 1998) ISBN 1-84018-059-5
• Tour de France: the history, the legend, the riders (Mainstream, 1999) ISBN 1-84018-918-5
• Tour de France: Tour de Suffrance (translated from the French of Albert Londres, Cycle Sport, 1999)
• Inside the Peloton: Riding, Winning and Losing the Tour de France (2001) ISBN 1-84018-672-0
• The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine, France 1792-1794 (2004) ISBN 0-7499-5005-6
• Bogota Bandit: The Outlaw Life of Charlie Mitten: Manchester United's Penalty King (with Richard Adamson, 2005) ISBN 1-84596-065-3
• Bob Chicken: A Passion for the Bike (2005) ISBN 0-9551225-0-3
• Massif: Guide to the great climbs of the Pyrenees (Rapha, 2006)
• The Beautiful Machine (2007 - in production) ISBN 1-84596-241-9

[edit] Plays by Graeme Fife

• Praise Be to God (Graeae Company, Orange Tree, London, 1987)
• Reg (1987)
• The Great French Revolution Show
• Lysistrata by Aristophanes (translated and adapted)
• Horses
• The Silver Nutmeg (musical, with Peter Thorne)
• Grimaldi (musical drama, with Peter Thorne)
• Once Upon a Time... (dramatic song sequence for narrator and singers, with Peter Thorne)
• The Andria (translation from The Andria of Terence, with Sebastian Eden) (Gresham's School)
• The Weaker Sex (Southampton)
• Gesualdo (Gresham's School; Edinburgh, London, Melbourne)
• Mr Shakespeare...Mr Liebowitz (Deya)
• Jam (London, Edinburgh, Swindon)
• The Door (opera) France

[edit] Screenplays by Graeme Fife

• Chavasse Park (promotional film for architectural development in Liverpool)
• Ghosts of Deptford (six short films about celebrated denizens of Deptford)

[edit] Radio Scripts by Graeme Fife

• Elias Howe
• Thirty Stories, Monologues and Duologues
• Snipe 607
• Earth to Earth
• Vivaldi
• The Whisper of the Axe
• Arthur the King
• La Mogador
• The March of the Ten Thousand
• The Misfortune at Seaham
• A Breath of Fresh Air
• Pearls Go with Pearls
• Godslots
• Surviving Wagner
• St Cecilia of Sicilia
• WILF
• Cat’s Whiskers
• The Figaro Letters
• The Athenian Trireme
• Doggett’s Coat and Badge
• Revolutionary Portraits
• The Night Stairs
• The Mrichhakatikaa (with Roger Elsgood and Willi Richards)
• Timbuktu: Drowning in Sand
• Vegetarian Cyclists
• Pause for Thought
• Bikesongs
• Bicycle Music
• The Fighting Temeraire
• Saint-Saens, Samson et Dalila and the Lost Glory
• The Fighting Temeraire, The Battle and the Breeze
• In Search of Saint-Saëns

[edit] References

• GraemeFife.com - official site
• Books by Graeme Fife at Biblio.com
• Books by Graeme Fife at amazon.co.uk
• Graeme Fife at Bikepyrenees.com
• From Lourdes to Lisbon with the Blazing Saddles