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.
From the BBC webpages -
Lewis Carroll's fantastical story collides with Radio 4 in Stephen Wyatt's dramatisation. Alice crashes through the mirror onto a giant game of chess and an adventure begins.
This magical world is set out like a giant c...
The talk Rob Orledge and I gave at Gresham College earlier this year on our reconstruction of Debussy's Devil in the Belfry - with extended musical extracts from the world premiere - is now available via You Tube
The first chance I've had to sit down and listen to Bonnie Langford's reading of Paradise Towers in full. I'd sampled it before so I knew she'd done a good job. But this time I was really struck by the sharpness and wit of her characterisations and her expert pacing of the narrative. And, to be ho...
Have been in rehearsals with Krazy Kat Theatre this week working on the script for BABA YAGA THE BONY LEGGED, THE WITCH. The show is well up to KK's usual high standards and the puppetry is magic. Opens the Mill Studio, Yvonne Theatre, Guildford on Saturday 17th. See Krazy Kat website for further...
This is something I've written for the book about Radio Drama Claire Grove and I are working on - which is a note to myself as well as to other readers of the book.
Just spent three very productive days in the studio recording THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS with my producer, Tracey Neale. A very talented cast plus a succession of "guest" Radio 4 voices.
LOOKING GLASS broadcasts on Radio 4 on 22nd December at 2.30 pm.
Queen's Theatre Hornchurch archive for Pick Yourself Up - reviews, photos, cast - now available again.
Copies of the script and further information about Pick Yourself Up also available from my agents, Valerie Hoskins Associates.
We go into studio at the end of October with my adaptation of ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS which is planned as a Radio 4 Christmas special. Julian Rhind Tutt is going to play Lewis Carroll which is excellent news!