Alan also writes film scripts, radio plays and television screenplays. In 2009, director Adam Stafford turned The Shutdown, a short non-fiction story Alan wrote about growing up next to one of Europe’s largest petrochemical plants and the harrowing experience of an explosion that temporarily deformed his father, into a multi award-winning documentary short, which Alan supplied the narration for. The Shutdown was produced by Accidental Media.
You can watch The Shutdown on Amazon Prime.
In 2019 he presented a documentary for Caledonia TV/BBC Scotland, Inside the Mind of Robert Burns.
In 2020 he wrote an animated short film, The Shark Was Aware of Me, for Mull Theatre.
Alan has also written several radio plays for BBC Radio Scotland, mainly for young people and told in Scots, including:
Greek Myths: King Midas and Helen and Aphrodite
Scottish Ghost Stories:
He recorded a podcast for BBC Radio 4 in 2013, From Lad to Feminist.
Between 2015-2016 Alan wrote for Scotland’s most popular long-running TV drama, River City.
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