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name: "Rona Munro"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rona-munro"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "7 September 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T18:10:37.524301+00:00"
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# Rona Munro

Writer. Born 7 September 1959 in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 7 September 1959, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
- **Active:** 1963–2005
- **Works often with:** C. E. Webber, Donald Wilson, Graeme Harper, Richard Curtis, Simon Nye, Sydney Newman

## Biography

Rona Munro is a Scottish writer for theatre, radio, television and film. Born in Aberdeen, she studied at the University of Edinburgh and began writing professionally in 1981. She has written plays for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was accepted onto the BBC's writers' training course.

Munro wrote the 1989 Doctor Who serial *Survival*, the final transmitted story of the original 1963–1989 series. She returned to the programme in 2017 with the episode *The Eaters of Light* for the revived series, making her the only writer to have contributed to both eras. Her other screen credits include the screenplays for *Ladybird Ladybird* (1994), *Aimée & Jaguar* (1999) and *Oranges and Sunshine* (2010).

Her stage work includes the award-winning plays *Bold Girls* (1990) and the trilogy *The James Plays* (2014).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, tardis.wiki.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Doctor Who* (1963), Fi1m 81, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *Doctor Who* (2005), Writer

## Also known for

- *Aimée & Jaguar* (1999), Screenplay
- *Ladybird Ladybird* (1994), Writer
- *Oranges and Sunshine* (2010), Screenplay

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