A fabulous promo for our upcoming book on Brian Desmond Hurst. I worked on Brian's Memoirs with him in the 70s and am delighted they are now being published as part of this bumper tribute to his extraordinary life and career beautifully put together by Caitlin Smith.

I had a very enjoyable time on the evening of Tuesday 9th chatting with members of The Scriptwriters @ Co group. Many thanks to Suzanna Cardash for organising and chairing. They were a lovely group and it's nice to be told I am "warm and encouraging" and "knowledgeable and charming." Well, at le...

Robert Shearman has kindly tweeted this comment on The World and His Wife:

"Strongly recommended. Surprising, engrossing, and enormous fun."

Paradise Towers is back in the recently announced Season 24 Dr Who bluray collection.

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Tardis Magazine No 2 has just been published to raise funds for Mind. Edited by Robbie Dunlop, it contains an article by me and the characters from Paradise Towers and Greatest Show are all over the cover designed by the talented  Ryan Aplin.  Quite a few of the other articles also concern my two...

Monday January 11th 2021. Hell has now officially opened -

Purgatory and Paradise to follow.

Lots of very favourable responses to this monologue including one on Twitter from Dame Sian herself:

"I recorded this wholehearted, moving story by Stephen Wyatt from home during lockdown. It was wonderful to be directed again by Martin Jenkins."

Still available to listen.

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.

 

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 trib...

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

Details here.

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...

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)...

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.

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