Colin MacDonald’s latest five-part audio drama series, The Pretender Prince, will begin recording next week, produced by Absolutely Productions and BBC Sounds for BBC R4.
The cast of The Pretender Prince has been confirmed, with Jack Lowden narrating. Further casting includes:
Lorn Macdonald as Bonnie Prince Charlie
Hannah Donaldson as Flora MacDonald
Gavin Mitchell as Colonel John O’Sullivan
Robert Jack as Lord George Murray
Iain Macrae as Clan Chief MacDonald
Kenny Blyth as Allan Ramsay
Sam James Smith as Donald Cameron
Douglas Yannaghas as Allan Cameron
Helen Mackay as Catherine Cameron
The Pretender Prince will broadcast on BBC R4 and BBC Sounds later this year.
Colin’s short film Survivor, funded by the Imperial War Museum and the Iolaire Trust was filmed late last year. Colin’s other work for Radio 4 includes the five-part series An Eye For A Killing, also narrated by Jack Lowden, and six ten-part series of Shardlake, adaptations of C J Sansom’s historical mystery novels.
