Spitting Image (1984–1996) Incident on the Line (from Tickets for the Titanic, 1987) The Way, the Truth, the Video (from Tickets for the Titanic, 1987) Downwardly Mobile (1994) (screenplay, 1998; based on a novel by ) A Very Social Secretary (2005) The Trial of Tony Blair (2007) Radio Fourth Column, a BBC Radio 4 show for writers and journalists Electric Ink, BBC Radio 4 starring Robert Lindsay (2009/2010) The Beaton Generation Miscellaneous Consultant to Columbia TriStar Pictures 1991-1995 Additional lyrics for the song "Small Titles And Orders" in the Chichester Festival Theatre's production of The Gondoliers in the summer of 2003. Consultant to stage musical Himmel und Kölle, Volksbühne, Cologne 2020/2021 External links Alistair Beaton: "Nanny Doesn't Know Best" (The Times, 29 March 2004) (about the war in Iraq and its treatment in Follow My Leader) "Lunatics in the White House? Surely not?" (Camden New Journal, 19 November 2004) (about the genesis of A Planet for the President; includes author photograph). 1947 births Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Living people Scottish television writers Moscow State University alumni Environmental fiction writers Scottish political journalists Scottish satirists Scottish radio presenters Scottish novelists Speechwriters Writers from Glasgow Scottish socialists Ruhr University Bochum alumni Scottish dramatists and playwrights