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
Books
- Polly Polestar
- The Wrong Side of the Bed
- Story in anthology: The Man in Black
- Arthur the King: a study of mediaeval romance in its social, literary and historical context
- Dick Pickles: The Kingfisher of Cottingham
- Where Did I Put My Trousers?
- George Francis: Trainer of Champions
- Tour de France: the history, the legend, the riders
- Tour de France: Tour de Souffrance
- Inside the Peloton: Riding, Winning and Losing the Tour de France
- The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine, France 1792-1794
- Bob Chicken: A Passion for the Bike
- Great Road Climbs of the Pyrenees
- The Beautiful Machine
- Angel of the Assassination
- Great Road Climbs of the Southern Alps
- Brian Robinson, Pioneer
- Great Road Climbs of the Northern Alps
Plays
- Praise Be to God
- Reg
- The Great French Revolution Show
- Lysistrata by Aristophanes
- The Silver Nutmeg
- Grimaldi
- Once Upon a Time...
- The Andria
- The Weaker Sex
- Gesualdo
- Mr Shakespeare...Mr Liebowitz
- Jam
- The Door France
Screenplays
- Chavasse Park
- Ghosts 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
- 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
- Robert Graves and Myth R3 Essays
Other
- 'The View from the Oarbench' in Frank Welsh, Building the Trireme
