A little biography....

Annie McCartney has written four short stories, eight afternoon plays and the comedy drama series "Two Doors Down" for Radio 4. Twelve episodes of the series were broadcast 2000-2003. It starred Frances Tomelty , Gerard Mc Sorley , Katy Gleadhill and Gerard Murphy . She has also worked for television (BBC Northern Ireland Drama) and is a novelist. Her first book “Desire Lines” won World Book Day for Northern Ireland , her second “Your Cheatin Heart” was published in February 2005 and her third novel “Two Doors Down” will be published in August 2007

HEARTS AND BONES....1998
R4, 1415, 27 Jul 98 ; rpt.25 Oct 99. A mother faces a dilemma when tests for a bone marrow transplant reveal that her husband may not be the father of her child. With Amanda Root , Kenneth Cranham , Ellie Beavan ; dir. Eoin O'Callaghan .

GO ASK ALICE ....2000
R4, 1500, 29 Jan 00 ; Saturday Play, 60m. Alice , an asthma sufferer, starts angling for attention. Nothing unusual in that, but before long her parents realise their lives are starting to come apart. With Ellie Beavan , Georgie Alexander and Amanda Root ; dir. Eoin O'Callaghan .

INTO THE MYSTIC....2000
R4, 1500, 29 Apr 00 , Saturday Play. Following her regression therapy, Susan Sinclair accuses her brother of having abused her as a child. The family's reaction is predictable, but in this case, perhaps there is no smoke without fire...with Samantha Bond , Ron Cook , Sophie Thompson . Dir. Eoin O'Callaghan . Rpt. 6 Apr 01.

DON'T GET ME WRONG....2001
R4 ,15 Jun 01; four young women invite a clairvoyant to read their palms with intriguing predictions that soon send their friendships into turmoil. With Saskia Wickham , Geraldine Fitzgerald , Lizzie McInnerney , Marcella Riordan . Dir. Eoin O'Callaghan .

DOUBLE VISION....2002
R4, 31 Oct 02. A woman who has lost her husband in a fatal car crash is spooked by having his so-called twin turn up on her doorstep. What does he want from her? And is he the real thing? Despite the concern expressed by her widowed father and friends, she decides to trust him.

OCCASIONAL SWIM....2003
A woman's marriage has disintegrated after a family tragedy. She meets another man, and they get on famously, and a happy ending is anticipated. But there are some surprises in store. With Emma Fielding and Robert Glennister, Lizzie McInnerny, Mick Garner, Andrew Alston, Frances Jeater, Lewis Aaltonen, Juliet Aaltonen. Director Eoin O'Callaghan .

EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE....2004
R4, 6 Jan 04, 1415...a psychological thriller about a mother who tries to protect her family from a man who threatens to expose her past. Maura's son Ryan wins a recording contract as a singer in a television talent show. But then Maura receives an unexpected 'phone call from a man she met on holiday twenty years earlier and who says he could be Ryan 's father. With Brid Brennan, Orla Charlton, Ivan Kaye, Alan McKee, Katy Gleadhill, Sarah Gordon, Hannah R. Gordon, Aine McCartney, Roger Jennings and Malachi Cush. Malachi sings one of his own songs, as Ryan , in this production. Directed and produced by Tanya Nash .

MARTHA MY DEAR...2006
R4 December 19th, 2006... Martha is the epitome of Earth-mother; she runs a house dripping with genuine tea and sympathy and has four children whom she fusses over and loves deeply and a quiet husband Robert who patently adores her. Her personality attracts confessions out of even her normal reticent friends-she is a virtual repository for all the gossip all the heartbreak affairs and as a final touch all her neighbours trust her with the keys to their houses. Then a book is published to a fanfare of publicity, part of the interest being that the writer has used a pseudonym. “Tea with Babette” contains characters who not only resemble closely Martha's many friends and neighbours...Martha is suspected to be the author. Her denial is swift, and though many try to believe her, the "no smoke" rule clings. But if she didn't write it, who is the author? With Marcella Riordan, Mark Lambert, Lizzie Mc Innerney, Katy Gleadhill. . Directed and produced by Eoin O Callaghan

Nigel Deacon , Diversity website