Donelly's addition to the radio management team is the second senior appointment made by 4 Radio's Director of Radio, Bob Shennan, in the past week.

Donelly will work across all of 4 Radio's national digital radio stations and have overall responsibility for the music output of each station. Initially he will work closely with Bob Shennan on developing the music strategy and launch plans for E4 Radio.

Commenting on the appointment Shennan said: "Alex is highly experienced and respected in the music industry. His kudos and standing will be a great asset to our radio business and I look forward to him joining the team."

Donelly added: "I'm sad to be leaving the world's best music publisher, but thrilled to be joining Channel 4, whom I regard as the UK's leading creative and innovative broadcaster. The opportunity to be part of the team building a new music radio platform is very exciting."

EMI Music Publishing UK President Guy Moot commented: "We're sorry to be losing someone of Alex's skills and experience, but this is a fantastic opportunity for him and he goes to 4 Radio with our best wishes for the future."

Alex Donelly has worked in the music industry since leaving University. He joined the BBC in 1997 and was promoted to Head of Music at Radio 1 in 2000, where he broke artists such as Eminem, Coldplay, Streets, So Solid Crew and Basement Jaxx. In 2005 he joined EMI Music Publishing and was responsible for signing new artists and developing existing ones, including Scouting for Girls and Justin Nozuka.
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Created and written by Martine Brant and BAFTA winning playwright Peter Flannery, The Devil's Whore tells the epic story of the English Civil War through the eyes of Angelica Fanshawe, a young aristocratic woman who is drawn to the anti-monarchist cause at a time when England dared to execute its King and search for an alternative means of government.

The compelling four-part serial will star an impressive cast headed up by newcomer Andrea Riseborough as Fanshawe. Riseborough's acclaimed stage roles include The Pain and the Itch at the Royal Court and Citizenship at The National Theatre. She will shortly appear as the young Margaret Thatcher in the forthcoming BBC 4 drama The Long Walk to Finchley as well as the female lead in a Film4 short film, Love Me More; the directorial debut of artist Sam Taylor Wood, which will premier at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

John Simm (Life on Mars) plays anti-hero Edward Sexby, alongside Dominic West (The Wire), Michael Fassbender (Hex) and Tom Goodman-Hill (Gideon's Daughter, Spamalot) as the three leaders of the Revolution; Cromwell, Rainsborough, and Lilburne. Peter Capaldi (The Thick of It) stars as King Charles I, with Maxine Peake (Shameless, See No Evil) as Elizabeth Lilburne.

One of British television's most distinguished voices, Peter Flannery - who won acclaim for his BBC TV series Our Friends in the North - has worked with Martine Brant to create The Devil's Whore; a blend of fact and fiction which illuminates what is, in screen terms, a surprisingly neglected era in English history. We meet Angelica Fanshawe in the court of King Charles I, a spirited but unquestioning royalist, she marries her aristocratic cousin Harry (Ben Aldridge). But in the subsequent years we follow her brave journey, charting her passionate affairs of the heart and mind, from a position of innocence to that of painfully learned political and emotional awareness.

Peter Flannery says:
"The Devil's Whore is certainly not intended as a history lesson. I have quite consciously taken liberties with known facts and personalities in order to construct a different kind of truth - the sort of truth Our Friends in the North told about post-war Britain, the sort of truth a documentary approach cannot reveal."

Head of Channel 4 Drama, Liza Marshall says:
"It is a testament to Peter Flannery's extraordinary scripts that this project has attracted some of the industry's hottest talents; from director Marc Munden, fresh from the BAFTA winning success of The Mark of Cain, to a cast including rising star Andrea Riseborough and more familiar names John Simm and Dominic West. I am confident that this will be a big, bold highlight in Channel 4's autumn season."

The Devil's Whore will film from May 08. The 4 x 60 minute episodes will be broadcast on Channel 4 in the autumn. Made by Company Pictures (Shameless, Skins, Elizabeth I) and produced by Jake Lushington with executive producers Charlie Pattinson, George Faber, Martine Brant, Peter Flannery and Justin Bodle, the drama is directed by award-winning director Marc Munden (The Mark of Cain, Vanity Fair).
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