There a short piece from me about working with Claire together with an extract from our radio drama book available now on the BBC Writers Room blog .
Here's a link to a recording of the Gottingen performance of The Devil in the Belfry, Rob Orledge's completion of Debussy's short opera based on Poe's story with a libretto by Stephen Wyatt.
See also the post for 3rd December 2013.
Classic Chandler with Toby Stephens as Philip Marlowe, produced by Claire Grove, directed by Claire, Mary Peate and Sasha Yevtushenko and dramatised by Robin Brooks and Stephen Wyatt is being repeated on BBC Radio 4 on the following Saturdays at 2.30 pm -
The Big Sleep – 15th Feb (Robin/Claire)...
My producers, Marc Beeby and Emma Harding, have assembled a wonderful cast for my dramatisation of Dante's The Divine Comedy for Radio 4. It's headed by John Hurt, David Warner, Blake Ritson and Hattie Morahan. The first day of recording was today and I'm delighted with how things are turning out. T...
A nice review in The Stage from Susan Elkin -
Published Thursday, January 2, 2014
So You Want to Write Radio Drama? By Claire Grove and Stephen Wyatt is a useful new addition to NHB’s eclectic So You Want series. A radio dramatist and a radio play producer, the authors take you step by step ...
Very much looking forward to working with Kinny Gardner and Krazy Kat Theatre on their exciting new version of Midsummer Night's Dream.
Details of the venues and dates for the Spring Tour have just been released.
On 11th January between 9 and 12 Radio 4 Extra is devoted to the life of Gilbert Harding, televsion's first ever "personality". It features extracts from his appearances as quizmaster and panellist on Round Britain Quiz, Twenty Questions and What's My Line? as well as the whole of his Face to Face i...
A revised version of Andrew Cartmel's Script Doctor has just been published. Still the best account of the McCoy years as they happened. And I should know as I was there! The new edition has a perceptive and supportive preface by Steven Moffat and lots of extra photos, some of them from my own arc...
Just published online in the Writers Guild Newsletter a couple of extracts written by Claire for our book and a short article by me about working with her.
The Devil in the Belfry (Le Diable au Beffroi) receives its staged world premiere in Gottingen on 10th and 11th December. The Gottinger Symphonie Orchester is conducted by Christoph-Mathias Mueller with video-installations by Lyoudmila Milanova.
My libretto is based on Debussy's original scenario...
Stephen will be talking about So You Want to Write Radio Drama? which he co-wrote with Claire Grove at New Writing South's Broadcasting Industry Day on Saturday 30th November. Copies of the book will be on sale!
Claire Grove, co-author of our radio drama book, died yesterday afternoon after a long and courageous battle with cancer. She was a wonderful collaborator and such a warm, vibrant, energetic and funny woman that it's hard to believe she's no longer with us.
Dear Claire, you will be much missed.
H...
Many thanks to my talented cast (Jonathan Coy, Philip Franks, Jordan Mifsud and Jeff Rawle) and my director (Sue Dunderdale) for all their hard work on the reading of Told Look Younger at the Jermyn Street Theatre on Thursday 14th. The script really came alive in their hands.
Thanks also to Sara M...
A nice review from Gillian Reynolds in The Daily Telegraph:
Radio drama has its own voice, of course, one with the power to take you anywhere. Monday’s Afternoon Drama last week, The Organist’s Daughter by Stephen Wyatt, was just such a play. Simon Russell Beale, the National’s most-darin...
I was delighted to learn that we have been given an Arts Council of England grant for the workshops and rehearsed reading of my comedy, TOLD LOOK YOUNGER (see below) on 14th November at the Jermyn Street Theatre. Sue Dunderdale will direct with Jonathan Coy, Philip Franks and Jeff Rawle in the cast....