TV & RADIO

Writer and performer of two series of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom -
Elvis McGonagall Takes A Look On The Bright Side (2014 and 2015, repeated 2017 and 2018 and featured on BBC Radio 4’s Pick of the Week). Listen here.

BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends (2021). Listen here.

BBC Radio 4 - Stand-Up Specials, Elvis McGonagall: Full Tartan Jacket (2021) featured as BBC Radio 4’s Comedy of the Week Podcast. Listen here.

BBC Radio 4 - My Name Is Elvis (2021) featured on BBC Radio 4’s Pick of the Week. Listen here.

Poet-in-residence on the first broadcast of BBC Radio 4’s Sony Gold Award winning Saturday Live - and subsequent regular appearances (2006-2014)

Presenter and writer of two BBC Radio 4 documentaries - Doggerel Bard (2010) and Beacons and Blue Remembered Hills (2011)

The Anatomy of Kindness (BBC Radio 4, 2022)

Archive on 4 - (BBC Radio 4, “A Brief History of Lust” and “A Brief History of Truth”, both 2017 and “A Brief History of Progress”, 2022)

Recycled Radio (BBC Radio 4, 2013 and 2016)

A Good Read (BBC Radio 4, 2013)

Weekend and Click (both BBC World Service, 2013)

Zoe Ball’s Breakfast Show (BBC Radio 2, 2013)

It’s Grimm Up North (BBC Radio 2, 2012)

Adventures In Poetry (BBC Radio 4, 2012)

Last Word (BBC Radio 4, 2011 and 2012)

Wondermentalist Cabaret (BBC Radio 4, 2011 and 2012)

Off The Page (BBC Radio 4, 2011)

Saturday Stand-Up (BBC Radio 4 Extra, 2011)

Saturday Live Poetry Cabaret (BBC Radio 4 Extra, 2011)

What’s So Funny? (BBC Radio 4 Extra, 2011)

Arthur Smith’s Balham Bash (BBC Radio 4, 2010)

MacAulay and Co (BBC Radio Scotland, appearances from 2010 to 2013)

The Today Programme (BBC Radio 4, two appearances in 2008)

Scottish Love Poetry (BBC Radio Scotland, 2008)

Material World (BBC Radio 4, 2007)

Poetry Stand-Up (BBC Radio 7, 2005)

Notable television appearances:

The One Show (BBC1, 2009 and 2014)

Random Acts (Channel 4, 2013)

The Culture Show (BBC2, 2012)

The World Snooker Championship Final (BBC2, 2008)