Current projects

BBC Scotland presents - 250 years of Robert Burns 25 January 2009 marked 250 years to the day since Scotland's national poet was born. This website celebrates Rabbie Burns's life and achievements in poetry and song. Learn more about how this website will grow in the coming months and years. BBC Radio Scotland is growing an archive all of Robert Burns's poetic works. Veteran producer Dave Batchelor has recorded performances by some of Scotland's best-loved actors (as well as two others) and a team from the University of Glasgow has provided the many guides featured throughout this website. 178 recordings are available now, with more to follow over the next two years. 27 March 2009 Maureen Beattie was on BBC Radio 4's Stanley Baxter Playhouse on Friday 27 March 2009. 'Astonishing Archie' is a comic play about two friends planning a friend's funeral. While it's too late to tune in the traditional way, the programme will be available through the BBC website until Friday 3rd April 2009. Maureen is playing Rev Margot Turnbull. 29 March 2009 - 8pm Maureen has recently guest starred as Professor Denise Gregson in a feature length episode of Lewis. See Television page for more details. 26 April Check out the recent interview with Maureen for The Sunday Times Link on the left of this page. 27 April - 1 May 2009 Maureen Beattie will be reading Radio 4's Book of the Week, For All the Tea in China by Sarah Rose. It's a historical book about Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter and industrial spy, and his efforts to steal the closely guarded secret of tea from China in the mid-nineteenth century Selected extracts will be broadcast every weekday morning, from 27 April to 1 May 2009, at 9.45am on Radio 4. You can either tune in the traditional way, or listen online. You can also listen online for up to 7 days after broadcast. 5 May - BBC1 13:45 Maureen is to make a guest appearance in BBC drama Doctors. Series 11 - Code of Silence Maureen plays Anne Mulholland in a storyline which sees Melody get caught up with a student whose part-time job has brought him face-to-face with a devastating family secret. 13 May - 30 May 2009 The Citizen's Theatre, Glasgow is delighted to announce that they have just received confirmation that Maureen Beattie will appear in their forthcoming production of Ghosts in May. She will play Mrs Alving. Performance details and link for tickets is on the left of this page. Maureen is currently in the process of filming ITV drama Midomser Murders. Details to follow. Maureen Beattie - 6 to 31 August 2009 Maureen Beattie will be appearing in The Girls of Slender Means at the Assembly @ George Street Music Hall, Edinburgh. The production runs from 6 to 31 August 2009, and tickets are onsale now. This is based on the novella by Muriel Spark, and is part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Maureen is hoping to be working with "Brick Lane" author Monica Ali in the near future. Watch this space for futher details. If anyone has additional information regarding Maureen's up and coming projects please please drop me a line and I shall add it to the site.