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....

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...