THE SONG OF THE COSSACKS My dramatisation for radio of Jean Binnie's play has been repeated and is available on BBC Sounds until the end of the month. Link to BBC programmes
Reading from Greatest Show at the Target Book Club 25 event.
Very much looking forward to this. James Goss and Steve Cole were kind enough to invite me along.
My first big Film and Comic Con at Olympia on Saturday. A chance to catch up with old friends and make some new ones. Lovely feedback on my two Dr Who stories. Totally exhausted now but it was worth it. Thanks to Gareth Kavanagh of Cutaway Comics for giving me the opportunity. And thanks to Se...
David McGillivray, Radio Times:
Writer and broadcaster Stephen Wyatt has an axe to grind and rightly so. He thinks it is unjust that, as not it’s the composer who gets most of the credit for the success of a musical or opera while the librettist and book writer remains unknown. Wyatt has writte...
Also joining us at the London Comic Festival is Stephen Wyatt. Stephen wrote two Classic Dr Who Stories – Paradise Towers (1987) and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (1988) – as well as The Psychic Circus for Big Finish. He’s also contributed to Build High for Happiness and Ice Hot, two short sto...
My five talks for The Essay on BBC Radio 3 start on Monday 16th at 9.45 pm. They're about the underappreciated art of the librettist in operas and musicals.
Unsung Heroes featured in this week's Radio Times.
The Dr Who Society at Exeter University invited me to a screening of Paradise Towers Part One and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy Part One, followed by a Q&A. More information.
Very excited to have been invited as a guest to the London Film and Comic Con at Olympia in early July.
Recording Unsung Heroes, my talks for The Essay about the importance of librettists to opera and musicals. They'll be broadcast on Radio 3 in the week beginning 16th June. They were recorded in my own library under the skilled and supportive guidance of producer Torquil Macloud.
Me and Him and Who is featured in the latest issue of Dr Who Magazine.
Delighted to have been commissioned by Radio 3 to write five talks for The Essay slot on one of my favourite topics - the way in which librettists are consistently underrated in the world of opera. The title is Unsung Heroes and it's transmitting in mid June.