Monday 14^th October 2013 at 2.15 pm

BBC Radio 4

THE ORGANIST’S DAUGHTER

By

Stephen Wyatt

 Directed by Martin Jenkins

with

Emma Fielding and Simon Russell Beale

Dieterich Buxtehude was famous throughout Europe for his skill as an organist. Many musicians coveted the post he h...

So you want to write Radio Drama? by Claire Grove and Stephen Wyatt will be published by Nick Hern Books on 5th December 2013.

We will be doing a launch in collaboration with New Writing South in Brighton as part of NWS's Broadcasting Industry Day on Saturday 30th November.

My copy of the new release of Sophie Aldred reading Greatest Show in the Galaxy arrived a couple of days ago. Great job by Sophie and Simon Power (music score and special effects)

My dramatisation of ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS broadcast over Christmas 2012 is now available for download from AudioGO. A snip at £1.99! See November 2012 entry for further information about the production.

Honoured to be invited to become one of New Writing South's new Artistic Associates. I've enjoyed my times running courses on radio drama for NWS and have enormous respect for the terrific work Chris Taylor and her team do.

We are hoping to organise a joint event in late November to launch the p...

DOUBLE JEOPARDY with Patrick Stewart as Raymond Chandler and Adrian Scarborough as Billy Wilder is being repeated on Radio 4 at 2.15 p.m. on Thursday 18th July.

Strangers on a Film, my play about the relationship between Raymond Chandler and Alfred Hitchcock while working on Strangers on a Train is now available as a download from AudioGo. It stars Patrick Stewart as Chandler and Clive Swift as Hitchcock and is directed by Claire Grove.

And by the way D...

Just discovered that my dramatisation of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding for Radio 4 directed by Claire Grove is now available for download as an audiobook from AudioGo.

So is my dramatisation of Thackeray's The Yellowplush Papers directed by Abigail Le Fleming and Jessica Dromgoole.

This is a c...

Just finished the revisions on my dramatisation of THE LONG GOODBYE for Norwegian Radio. Expanded from ninety minutes into four half hour episodes, it's been possible to include material we had to exclude from the BBC version, restoring the characters of Linda Loring and Harlan Potter. The dramatisa...

I have just heard that Sir Fabian Ware, Founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission and the central figure in my radio play MEMORIALS TO THE MISSING is to get a Blue Plaque on the house he lived in Marylebone between 1911 and 1919. I proposed him for commemoration at the time of my play, saying th...

In rehearsals today for the latest Krazy Kat show THE WAVING CAT in my continuing role as Company Dramaturge. Early days but it looks like another very funny, imaginative and visually rich show. Details of the run can be found on the Krazy Kat website.

Here's a link to a rave review in The Sta...

AudioGo  has acquired the audio rights in Stephen's second Dr Who novel for the Target range, THE GREATEST SHOW IN THE GALAXY following the success of Bonnie's version of PARADISE TOWERS.

It's scheduled for release on August 1st. No word yet on who's going to be the reader. I must say I'm intr...

For the first time I've been catching up via Google on some of the debates on GREATEST SHOW although obviously I'd read the Amazon reviews (see my previous blog). I was rather pleased to realise after all these years that there's actually quite a lot of (not unqualified) affection for GSITG out ther...

The script of my radio play about Cardinal Newman, GERONTIUS, which won the Tinniswood Award for best radio drama script in 2012 is now available via Amazon -

My favourite comment so far on the ALICE broadcast is from Sarah Vine in The Times - "Stephen Wyatt's new dramatisation is as charming as it is bonkers."

Lots of other nice comments from press and from chums so feeling pretty pleased (and relieved) with how it's been received.