MacMillan) Quickening [BBC Proms commission] (composer James MacMillan) Raising Sparks [Nash Ensemble commission] (composer James MacMillan) Sun Dogs [3 Choirs Festival commission] (composer James MacMillan) Chosen (composer James MacMillan) Selected broadcast work BBC Radio 3 interview and reading for – 'Northern Drift' – 2022 BBC Radio 4 commissioned drama – 'Brimstone' – for 'Afternoon Play' – 2000 BBC Radio 4 commissioned drama – 'Cleaning the Pipes' – for 'Fact to Fiction' – 2006 BBC Radio 3 commissioned drama – 'Soldiers in the Sun' – 2007 BBC Radio 4 commissioned drama – 'Worktown' – for 'Afternoon Play' – 2008 BBC Radio 4 commissioned drama – 'Breath'- adaptation of MSR's novel for 'Friday Play' – 2008 BBC Radio 3 commissioned drama – 'Idylls of the King' – adaptation of Tennyson poem – 2009 BBC Radio 4 commissioned drama – 'A Man in Pieces' – for 'Afternoon Play' – 2010 BBC Radio 3 commissioned drama – 'Migrant Mother' – 2010 BBC Radio 4 commission – 'Last Words' – poem to mark 1st Anniversary of 9/11, performed by Sir Antony Sher, with music by John Harle. BBC Radio 4 / World Service commissioned poem for Hiroshima Day – 'A Fearful Symmetry.' With Fiona Shaw, Robert Tear and BBC Philharmonic. Music James Whitbourn. BBC Radio 2 commission – 'Behold the Man' – 6 part biography of Jesus. Performed by Derek Jacobi, repeated on BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 commission – 'The Wounds' – poem for Good Friday, performed by Simon Russell Beale, with music by James Whitbourn. BBC Radio 4 commission – 'The Hurricane' – poem for Pentecost, performed by Fiona Shaw, with music by James Whitbourn. BBC Radio 4 commissioned poem – 'Crossing the Dark Sea' with composer James Whitbourn, to mark D-Day anniversary. With Christopher Eccleston and Katherine Jenkins. BBC Radio 4 commissioned poem – 'White Nights' BBC Radio 4 commissioned poem for 'Today' programme on National Poetry Day. BBC Radio 2 commission – 'Anno Domini' – 11 part history of Christianity in Britain, performed by Derek Jacobi. BBC Radio 4 commission – 'A Higher Place' – writer and presenter of series on Sacred Mountains of the world. BBC Radio 2 commission – writer and presenter of 'Landscape of Remembrance', on the poets of the First World War. BBC Radio 4 commission – 'Hound of Heaven' – on the Victorian poet Francis Thompson. BBC Radio 2 commission – 'The Good Book' –