MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE

Just discovered my adaptation of Graham Greene's Monsignor Quixote is currently on Radio 4 Extra.

Starring Bernard Cribbins and directed by the much missed Marc Beeby.

Available until the end of the month.

DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY

My dramatisation of Dante's The Divine Comedy is being repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra beginning with Inferno at 10 am on Monday 11th January.

Details here.

Sadly Marc Beeby who co-produced / directed this along with Emma Harding died untimely over Christmas. For me therefore this is also a tribute to Marc and a thank you for this fantastic production.

The repeat also forms part of the BBC's contribution to the celebrations of Dante's 700th birthday.

SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN

Sian Phillips performs my monologue on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 9th January 10.45 and 19.45. Available for thirty days.

Details here.

PARADISE FOUND

This message from Gareth Kavanagh at Cutaway Comics.

We have an exciting opportunity for an artist to work with us on the forthcoming PARADISE TOWERS comic. Genuinely open submission, paying gig naturally. This is your chance to dazzle us and have some fun bringing

Stephen Wyatt

's Towers to life .

All the details you need to submit are in the link below, but I'm also here if you have any questions. Please do share wide and far and as always, #buildhighforhappiness

Details here.

HURST ON FILM

News just in from the Brian Desmond Hurst Legacy Site:

AN IRISHMAN CHAINED TO THE TRUTH Brain Desmond Hurst

RTE's superb radio documentary tells the almost improbable story of Brian Desmond Hurst woven through a meeting between Allan Esler Smith (who looks after the Hurst Estate) and Stephen Wyatt, an award-winning writer for radio, television and theatre. Stephen had directed the 1973 Cambridge Footlights Revue and as an aspiring writer was looking for work in the mid 1970s. What are the chances of Stephen sitting with Brian in the mid 1970s to help Hurst write his memoirs?

The new book, Hurst on Film by Caitlin Smith and Stephen Wyatt will be published in February 2021 and reveal more. In the meantime, you can listen again to this audio treat here. Includes rare recordings of Brian speaking.

I'm delighted that the memoirs are finally going to be published.

WEAVER DANCE

A wonderful ten minute video of baroque dancing made by the Weaver Dance Company made for the Early Dance Circle. I had enormous fun creating the accompanying scripts.

GILBERT WITHOUT SULLIVAN

Second series of Gilbert Without Sullivan now being repeated on Radio 4 Extra including my own favourite A Sensation Novel.

MAGS LIVE ON

GILBERT WITHOUT SULLIVAN

Smith Scripts have just published five of my radio scripts for GILBERT WITHOUT SULLIVAN.

Meanwhile the second series of GILBERT WITHOUT SULLIVAN is being repeated on Radio 4 Extra from 23rd November. Details here.

SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN

I  am very excited that Sian Phillips has just recorded my radio monologue THE SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN directed by Martin Jenkins. This is a Pier Production and it's scheduled for transmission early in the New Year on Radio 4. More details when available.