ME AND HIM AND WHO

A nice fuve star review of my JNT audio drama from We Are Cult,

Me & Him & WHO is a fascinating look at one of Doctor Who’s most colourful off-screen characters, whose enthusiasm sustained the series for a decade. As the show enters a new phase of Disney-powered international distribution, this seems a timely moment for reflection. Arguably, had he lived to see it, it’s easy to imagine JN-T as one of the show’s greatest assets; his public loyalty to those he worked with shines through in Stephen Wyatt’s thoughtful, but ultimately tragic, script.

Naturally, the allegations surrounding the pair’s off-screen exploits, particularly Gary’s less-than wholesome fan interactions, are briefly addressed. First emerging in Richard Marson’s terrific 1993 biography of JN-T, they’ve been discussed elsewhere; notably, they were briefly tabloid fodder.

Wherever you stand on JN-T’s tenure as Doctor Who producer, his contribution to the show’s history was phenomenal. Me & Him & WHO is an appropriately bittersweet tribute to this complicated character, whose career and life is worthy of re-evaluation. More than that, it’s a touching and tragic love story too.

We also rather love the clever cover artwork by Robert Hammond which blends elements of Doctor Who‘s various 1980s title sequences.

WEAVER DANCE

Following performances at the Baroque Music Festival in Malta, the Weaver Dance Company is presenting a double bill of baroque dance song and music with scripts by me at the Marylebone Theatre on Saturday 21st January. Prepare to be entertained!

THE CLEANER

Thanks to the generosity of Matt West, I am now the proud owner of a model Robotic Cleaner from Paradise Towers.

BERNARD CRIBBINS

As part of Radio4 Extra's tribute to Bernard Cribbins, my adaptation of Graham Greene's Monsignor Quixote is being repeated.

This is alongside an extended conversation between Bernard and his long-term friend and mine, the radio producer Martin Jenkins.

MEMORIALS TO THE MISSING.

Very touched to receive this report of a performance of my play MEMORIALS TO THE MISSING in a church in Minchinhampton on Remembrance Sunday:

We had an audience of 150 (the place has never been so full!) and everyone thought that the play was brilliant and very moving. (Which of course it is, but it was satisfying to find that in the fifteen years since you wrote it, it has lost none of its power to create genuine emotion in an audience who mostly had no real idea of what they were coming to see. At the end, we used a recording of the Last Post which included the 'dead wind' effect which we used whenever the ghosts spoke, and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house – absolute silence before prolonged applause!)

GILBERT HARDING

Available throughout November on Radio4 Extra my play about Gilbert Harding starring Roger Allam.

ME AND HIM AND WHO

Available now from AUK a special collector's edition of my play about John Nathan-Turner and his partner Gary starring Chris Guard and Peter Noble produced/directed by Barnaby Eaton-Jones.

PARADISE TOWERS FROM OBVERSE

A first. A full length study of something I wrote. From Obverse Books: Paradise Towers by John Toon.

THE KANGS

Great cover design by Robert Hack for Cutaway Comics.

PRAISE FOR THE WALLSCRAWLER

A lovely review of The Wallscrawler and other stories in We Are Cult.

https://wearecult.rocks/stephen-wyatt-the-wallscrawler-and-other-stories-reviewed/feature-image-stephen-wyatt