Colin MacDonald (writer)

Colin MacDonald was born in 1956 in Inverness, Scotland. He is a prolific writer for television and radio. Television credits include The Dunroamin' Rising, The Gift, The Wreck on the Highway, Sharpe's Honour and episodes in the series Blue Murder, Heartbeat, Casualty, and Para Handy. Radio credits include Killing the Butterfly, Hill of Rains, The Colour of Summer, King of Hearts, The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: The Hat and Calum's Road. In 2021, BBC Radio 4 aired a full-cast adaptation of C. J. Sansom's mystery novel Lamentation, dramatised by MacDonald, with Justin Salinger starring as Shardlake.