Graeme Fife

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

Education

Fife was educated at schools in London and Durham University, where he gained a General Arts degree with first class honours in Greek language and literature.

Teaching career

Head of Classics for one year at a school in Lancashire
Head of Classics at Gresham's School, Holt, from 1970 to 1978
Lecturer in Greek and Roman literature, University of Reading

Publications

Books

Polly Polestar (Ginn & Co., 1989)
The Wrong Side of the Bed (Ginn & Co., 1988) ISBN 0-602-28462-7
Story in anthology: 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 Souffrance (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)
Bob Chicken: A Passion for the Bike (2005, ISBN 0-9551225-0-3)
Great Road Climbs of the Pyrenees (Rapha, 2006)
The Beautiful Machine (2007, ISBN 1-84596-241-9)
Angel of the Assassination (novel) (Merit, 2009)
Great Road Climbs of the Southern Alps (Rapha, 2010)
Brian Robinson, Pioneer (Mousehold Press 2010)
Great Road Climbs of the Northern Alps (Rapha 2011)

Plays

Praise Be to God (performed by Edward de Souza Orange Tree, London, 1987)
Reg (performed by Edward de Souza, Orange Tree, 1987)
The Great French Revolution Show (Deia Majorca, 1984)
Lysistrata by Aristophanes (translated and adapted, Deia Majorca, 1984)
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 (Edinburgh, London, Melbourne)
Mr Shakespeare...Mr Liebowitz (Deià, Majorca)
Jam (London, Edinburgh, Swindon)
The Door (opera) France

Screenplays

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

Radio Scripts

Elias Howe
Some thirty Stories about composers, Monologues and Duologues
Snipe 607
Earth to Earth
Vivaldi
Revolutionary Portraits
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 (script consultant)
Godslots
Surviving Wagner
St Cecilia of Sicilia
Wilf
Cat’s Whiskers, six short playlets
The Figaro Letters
The Athenian Trireme
Doggett’s Coat and Badge
The Night Stairs
Timbuktu: Drowning in Sand
Vegetarian Cyclists
over a hundred scripts for Pause for Thought
Bikesongs
Bicycle Music
Saint-Saëns, Samson et Dalila and the Lost Glory
The Fighting Temeraire, The Battle and the Breeze
The Sweetness of the Garden
Spem in Alium
Beau Geste (adapted for R4 Classic Serial)
Robert Graves and Myth R3 Essays

Other

'The View from the Oarbench' in Frank Welsh, Building the Trireme (Constable, 1988)