Career
She has written many plays and television shows, but her best known work is probably the British Broadcasting Corporation series Takin" Over the Asylum. She came to public attention as the writer of Takin" Over the Asylum a six-part series for British Broadcasting Corporation television about a hospital radio station in a psychiatric hospital. lieutenant was first broadcast in 1994 and starred Ken Stott and David Tennant.
She wrote the four-part series A Mug"s Game (1996), and adapted Robert McLiam Wilson"s novel Eureka Street for British Broadcasting Corporation television (Northern Ireland), which was first broadcast in September 1999.
By the 2000s, political drama was seen as anachronistic. However, she "swam against the tide", as she describes, by writing and producing a three-part drama The Key, about three generations of working class women in Glasgow.
She said "We live in cynical times and it"s easy to become jaded by the machinations of power and politics. I wrote The Key to try and remind us that, though we are shaped by our history, sometimes the reverse is also true." Her 2008 play, Lost in Plain Sight, charted one young man’s recovery from a suicide attempt.
In 2010, Franceschild adapted Steinbeck"s Of Mice and Men for radio, starring David Tennant and Liam Brennan.
Among recent projects are two new plays for Four and a commission to write a single television drama for Channel Four. Quartet, British Broadcasting Corporation 4, 13 November 2008 The Lottery Ticket, British Broadcasting Corporation 4, 18 February 2009 The Ca"d"oro Cafe, British Broadcasting Corporation 4, 26 January 2010 Of Mice and Men (dramatisation), British Broadcasting Corporation 4, 7 March 2010 Down and Out in Auchangaish, British Broadcasting Corporation 4, 19 December 2011 credits include: And the Cow Jumped Over the Moon (1990), The Sunshine Cafe (1989), Rebel!.