Toby Swift (born 20th century) is a radio drama director and producer for BBC Radio.
His numerous credits, from 1999 to 2011, include the crime dramas The Recall Man and Trueman and Riley. He also directs contemporary and periodic radio dramas.
Awards Swift won the Prix Italia for Adapted Drama in 2004 for M, and again in 2005 for My Arm and for a third time in 2007 for Metropolis.Prix Italia, Winners 1949 - 2010, RAI The Loop won a Bronze Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Drama Production in 2010.
Radio plays Radio Plays Directed or Produced by Toby Swift Date first broadcast Play Author Cast SynopsisAwards StationSeries 20 January 1999 Goodbye Moses Jennie Buckman Andrew Rajan, Dominic Carter, Angela Wynter, Giles Fagan and Elizabeth Conboy As London swelters in a heatwave, Moses Perkes, a Trinidadian ghost, embarks on a quest to find his killers. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon PlayBBC – Afternoon Play 12 July 1999 For The Love Of Strangers Susan Stern Kathryn Hunt, Robin Bowerman and Brigit Forsyth Amidst the chaos of a family weekend, Jayne stumbles upon a dark and little-known episode in York's rich history – the 12th-century massacre of the city's Jewish population. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play 13 September 1999 – 8 October 1999 Vital SignsEpisodes 1–10 directed by Kate Rowland, 11–20 directed by Toby Swift Sarah Woods and Peter Straughan Rachel Davies, Gillian Hanna, Derek Walmsley and Keith Drinkel Carol Weaver, chief executive of the Nightingale NHS Trust, balances a difficult home life with complex issues of millennium planning. BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour DramaBBC – Woman's Hour Drama 30 June 2000 Gin and Rum Philip Palmer Caroline Catz and Philip Whitchurch Every weekday Judy and Bob meet on the roof of a London office block for their lunch break. This romantic ghost story scratches beneath the surface of two lonely lives, offering a tantalising glimpse of the secrets of the city. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play 8 September 2000 The Salt March Nasser Memarzia Paul Bhattacharjee, Josephine Welcome and Kulvinder Ghir On 12 March 1930, Gandhi and 78 volunteers set out from Sabarmati Ashram to walk the 240 miles to Dandi in protest at the British-imposed salt laws. This bid to unite the Indian independence movement meant some difficult decisions for those in the villages en route. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play 14 September 2000 Pot Shot Jennie Buckman Katy Cavanagh and Jonathan Coy Hannah and Martin are trying for a baby. Unfortunately Hannah is trying rather harder than Martin whose behaviour becomes ever more strange the further down the road to fertility treatment the couple goes. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play 8 December 2000 Soap Gets In Your Eyes Brian B Thompson Michelle Holmes, Peter-Hugo Daly and Duncan Preston Danny is the chief storyliner on the nation's best-loved soap. It is his life, and he is even engaged to its wholesome leading lady. But when a new, hard-nosed, ratings-chasing producer arrives, his cosy life is turned upside down. BBC Radio 4 Friday PlayBBC – Friday Play 29 December 2000 The League of Gentlemen John Boland adapted for radio by Mike Walker Jonathan Coy, Raymond Coulthard and Adam Kotz A decade after the end of the Second World War, ex-major Gregory Hemmings recruits a team of disgraced former army officers to undertake a daring raid on a central London bank. BBC Radio 4 Friday Play 23 January 2001 Fallen Philip Palmer Owen Teale, Francine Morgan, Robert Pugh and Steven Meo Raymond Thomas quickly rose to become the youngest bank manager in South Wales. But then he had an affair, stole money, lost his job and went to jail. Can his family and the town accept him back, after he has so betrayed their trust? BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play 16 March 2001 Ecce Homo – Behold The Man! David Napthine Paul Bown, Helen Atkinson Wood, Philip Whitchurch and Rachel Atkins Comedy in which Birmingham decides to appoint a philosopher-in-residence in a bid to improve its intellectual standing. From the moment when free thinker Diogenes Walker steps through the door, chaos envelops City Hall. BBC Radio 4 Friday Play 28 April 2001 City of Spades Colin MacInnes adapted by Biyi Bandele Chiwetel Ejiofor, Raymond Coulthard, Ray Fearon and Clare Corbett Nigerian immigrant Johnny finds himself caught up in the new ethnic subculture in 50s London. BBC Radio 4 Saturday PlayBBC – Saturday Play 17 June 2001 The Conquest of the South Manfred Karge adapted by Anthony Vivis, from the translation by Anthony Vivis and Tinch MinterMusic by Simon Fraser Matthew Dunster, James Weaver, Ralf Little, Andrew Lancel, Katy Cavanagh, Nicholas Gleaves, Lucy Akhurst and John Lightbody Four of society's rejects seek to escape the depressing emptiness of their lives by acting out Amundsen's famous expedition to the South Pole. BBC Radio 4 8 August 2001 – 12 September 2001Although episode 6 was scheduled for 12 September 2001 its first broadcast may have been pre-empted by news coverage of world events and postponed until 31 July 2002 Steven Appleby's Normal LifeBBC – Steven Appleby's Normal Life(Six episodes) Steven Appleby Paul McCrink, Rachel Atkins, Nigel Betts and Rosalind Paul Cartoonist Steven Appleby takes an abnormal look at everyday life. BBC Radio 4 30 September 2001 – 7 October 2001 The Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser dramatised by Philip Palmer Simon Russell Beale and Holly Aird Inventive dramatisation of Edmund Spenser's towering Elizabethan epic poem. BBC Radio 4 Classic SerialBBC – Classic Serial 27 November 2001 The Present Jackie Pavlenko Kathryn Hunt, Alice Gardiner, Christine Brennan, Jim Millea, James Swanton Eva's life is a chaotic whirl of missed appointments and mad dashes as she tries to keep up with the demands of her children, her work and her withering social life. But only when she starts to keep a diary does the real problem emerge. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play 7 December 2001 Doctor Joe Aston InvestigatesBBC – Afternoon Play – Doctor Joe Aston Investigates David Napthine Jeremy Swift, Rosie Cavaliero, Carolyn Pickles, Colin MacLachlan, Paul Brennen and Sue Scott Davison Scientist Grace Hayle and her boss were working alone in the laboratory. Now he's dead and she's the only suspect in a murder case. She claims to have no memory of what happened and there's little evidence to go on. Forensic psychologist Dr Joe Aston, an expert in "recovered memory", attempts to uncover the truth. This single play later developed into The Recall Man series. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play 4 January 2002 The Condition of the Virgin Boothby Graffoe Jason Isaacs and Nicholas McGaughey Theological satire about a statue which shows some odd changes. BBC Radio 4 Friday Play 17 April 2002 Trueman Brian B Thompson Robert Daws, Duncan Preston, Polly Hemingway, Katy Cavanagh, Richard Lintern and Sandra Clark Was the murder of a student a drug wars killing, or are more sinister forces at work? The investigation falls to Trueman, a former high-flying detective. This single play later developed into the Trueman and Riley series. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play 23 April 2002 The King's CoinerThe King's Coiner – A radio drama by Philip Palmer (script) Philip Palmer Ian McDiarmid, Katy Cavanagh, Barnaby Kay, Jeremy Swift, Freddie Annobil-Dodoo, Peter Marinker and Colin Adrian True life detective drama about Isaac Newton. By the 1690s Isaac Newton, already the world's greatest mathematician, was hungry for a new challenge and became Warden of the Royal Mint. His pursuit of London's most notorious counterfeiter, William Chaloner, confirmed him as a man prepared to go to any lengths to solve a problem. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play 13 September 2002 Man with Travel HairdryerMan with Travel Hairdryer – A radio play by Katie Hims (script) Katie Hims The lives of many people are changed forever after an unarmed man is mistakenly shot dead by a police officer. BBC Radio 4 Friday Play 7 November 2002 Tricycles Colin Teevan Laura Hughes, Conleth Hill, Cathy White, Abigail McGibbon, Nikki Doherty, Darran Williams, Packy Lee, Hannah R Gordon, Dario Angelone, Richard Dormer, Roger Jennings, Stella McCusker and Oisin Teevan Colin Teevan's impressionistic and fast-moving drama dips in and out of everyday lives in Belfast to create a picture of a city and its people as they seek to make their modest dreams a reality. A suspected meningitis outbreak turns lives and routines on their head, perhaps for years to come. BBC Radio 3 The WireBBC – The Wire 19 December 2002 Full English Brian B Thompson Ray Burdis, Sheyla Shehovich, Bruce Byron, Sharon Duce and Ewan Bailey Terry and Inna meet through a Russian internet dating agency. When she visits him in London, they are both in for some surprises. She's expecting opportunity and prosperity, but it doesn't always work out like that. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play 2 February 2003 MBe afraid. Listen to Radio 3, The Observer, 9 February 2003 Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang adapted by Peter Straughan John Lightbody, Kevin McKidd, Nicholas Woodeson, Mark Lewis Jones, Jonathan Tafler, Gilly Tompkins, Ewan Bailey, Peter Marinker, Michael Wildman, Clare Corbett, Ben Crowe, Rebecca Manley, Cressida Whyte, Emily Button, Gregg Prentice, Ruby Stokes and Jack Durrant Berlin is gripped with fear as a murderer preys on the city's children against a backdrop of political turbulence and rising criminality.Fritz Lang's cinema classic has been voted the most important German film of all time in its home country.Peter Straughan's kaleidoscopic adaptation exploits the emphasis Lang placed on sound in his first steps beyond the silent movie era.Won the Prix Italia for Adapted Drama in 2004. BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3BBC – Drama on 3 19 February 2003 – 26 March 2003 Steven Appleby's Normal Life (Series 2)BBC – Steven Appleby's Normal Life (Series 2)(Six episodes) Steven Appleby Paul McCrink, Rachel Atkins, Nigel Betts and Rosalind Paul Cartoonist Steven Appleby takes an abnormal look at everyday life. BBC Radio 4 1 May 2003 CreamieBBC – The Wire – Creamie Luke Sutherland Clive Russell, Sophie Okonedo, Matthew Dunster, Indira Varma, Nicola Stapleton and Derek Ezenagu As Glasgow cop Tony finds a surveillance operation unravelling spectacularly, his thoughts return to last summer and a turbulent reunion with the daughter he'd only seen once since her birth. BBC Radio 3 The Wire 11 July 2003 At the Beach Tom Kelly Gerard Horan, Glyn Grimstead, Ben Tibber, Joseph Tremain and Ray Lonnen Thirty years after they were last there, childhood friends Roy and Danny journey back to the remote beach where they shared an experience, and a secret, that has shaped their lives ever since. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play 9 September 2003 Madonna's Plumber Christopher Matthew Robert Daws and Ted Robbins Nigel Breezer, the self-styled plumber to the stars and star among plumbers, takes a tortuous trip to a film premiere in a courtesy limo giving him ample opportunity to give us the benefit of an insider's view of the famous and not-so-famous, as well as a few tricks of the trade. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play 15 September 2003 A Fire in the West Michael Butt Ken Sharrock, Kate Fitzgerald, Lucy Akhurst and David K S Tse Ciera Thomas set herself alight outside the Ministry of Defence, apparently in protest at a recent arms deal. There were no warnings, no final farewells.