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Name
  
Alistair Beaton

Role
  
Journalist


Plays
  
Feelgood

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Education
  
Moscow State University, University of Edinburgh

Nominations
  
British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama, Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy

Books
  
A Planet for the President, The Little Book of Complete, Contemporary Scottish Plays: Ca, Caledonia, The Thatcher papers

Similar People
  
Ned Sherrin, David Aukin, Simon Cellan Jones, Hal Vogel, Robert Lindsay

Movies and TV shows
  
The Trial of Tony Blair

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Alistair Beaton (born 1947) is a Scottish left-wing political satirist, journalist, radio presenter, novelist and television writer. At one point in his career he was also a speechwriter for Gordon Brown.

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Alistair Beaton Alistair Beaton Biography

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Beaton was educated at the universities of Edinburgh, Moscow and Bochum and graduated from the University of Edinburgh with First-Class Honours in Russian and German. He lives in Holloway, London.

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Non-fiction

  • The Little Book of Complete Bollocks (1999)
  • The Little Book of New Labour Bollocks (2000)
  • The Little Book of Management Bollocks (2001)

    • Fiction

  • Don Juan on the Rocks (novel, 1994)
  • Drop the Dead Donkey 2000 (novel, 1994) (co-authored with Andy Hamilton, after the British sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey)
  • A Planet for the President (novel, 2004)

    • Stage plays

  • The Ratepayer's Iolanthe (co-written with Ned Sherrin) (1984)
  • The Metropolitan Mikado (also co-written with Sherrin) (1985)
  • Feelgood (2001) (a satire on New Labour spin doctors)
  • Follow My Leader (a 2004 play with music by Richard Blackford)
  • King of Hearts (a satire) (2007)
  • Caledonia (2010) (A satire about the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Scottish colonial ambitions Darien scheme of the late 17th century.)
  • Fracked: Or Please Don't Use The F Word (2016)

    • Translations and adaptations

  • Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector (from Russian)
  • Gogol's The Nose (based on the Gogol short story of the same name)
  • La Vie parisienne (operetta by Jacques Offenbach, translated from French)
  • Die Fledermaus (from German)
  • The Arsonists (a 2007 translation of the 1953 play Biedermann und die Brandstifter by Max Frisch)

    • Television

  • Not The Nine O'Clock News (1979–1982)
  • It'll All Be Over in Half an Hour (1983)
  • Spitting Image (1984–1996)
  • Incident on the Line and The Way, the Truth, the Video (from Tickets for the Titanic, 1987)
  • Downwardly Mobile (1994)
  • Mit fünfzig küssen Männer anders (screenplay, 1998; based on a novel by Dorit Zinn)
  • A Very Social Secretary (2005) (about David Blunkett's affair with Kimberly Quinn)
  • The Trial of Tony Blair (2007)

    • Radio

  • Fourth Column, a BBC Radio 4 show for writers and journalists
  • Electric Ink, BBC Radio 4 (2009)
  • The Beaton Generation

    • Miscellaneous

  • Additional lyrics for the song "Small Titles And Orders" in the Chichester Festival Theatre's production of The Gondoliers in the summer of 2003.

    • References

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