The attraction in writing audio drama has grown out of my fascination with deception – how a studio can become Scottish island, a Parisian brothel or a medieval prison cell in the mind of the listener. I love to work with soundscape designers who do wonderful magic and send the actors' speech and the listeners' imagination out to play together.

Another plus is that audio drama lasts. A while back, I helped to found a pop-up theatre company in Glasgow. We performed in basements and coffee shops; we dragged our props in from our car boots and changed in tiny, smelly toilets. I loved it. But live theatre is ephemeral; it's gone forever once you've packed up on your last night.

I love audio drama and history and most things French, so I decided to write plays based on characters from French history. I called my series L'Histoire, which can mean either history or story in French.

The first play in the podcast drama series l’Histoire is about Edith Piaf and the Nazi régime. Heroine or villain? Listen now to Collaboration and judge for yourself

The second play in the series, Confessional, is a dark story which explores the real-life figure behind a gruesome fairy tale. Gilles de Rais, known in France as Bluebeard, was a medieval hero turned serial murderer. The play explores what happens when power is deemed to be absolute.

Just before and during lockdown, I decided to move closer to home to explore the tales that abound off the west coast of Scotland. These are full of creatures and shipwrecks, smugglers' troves and shape shifters. Sea Change and Galore! were written and performed for the fun of it. Enjoy.

I am the writer and director, but the production is done by a team of people whose skills I do not have. You can find out more about the talented folk I work with here on my website