I've noticed a number of hits looking for information about my Chandler / Hitchcock radio play, STRANGERS ON A FILM. Inspired, I guess, by the BFI's big Hitchcock season.
Should anybody be interested, I've prepared a stage version of STRANGERS in a double bill with DOUBLE JEOPARDY, my Chandler / W...
Very excited to have signed a contract today with Endeavour Press to publish my gay thriller BIG DIPPER as an e-book.
Despite my reservations (see below), the team have done their usual thorough job on the dvd reissue and I'm delighted the Victoria Wood parody is thrown in.
Overall Greatest Show is proving once again considerably more popular with fans than Paradise Towers (hard for it to be less popular) a...
Darren Rapier has interviewed has Stephen about his work in a podcast available through the Writers Guild of Great Britain website.
The DVD of Greatest Show in the Galaxy is due for release on 30th July.
Stephen will be attending a Tenth Planet signing on 18th August alongside some of the cast.
My lovely BBC radio producer Claire Grove and I have just reached an agreement with Nick Hern Books to write a book (it's part of a series) called SO YOU WANT TO WRITE A RADIO PLAY?
Very much looking forward to working with Claire and Nick. We're due to deliver our manuscript early next year.
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Just been into rehearsals for the new Krazy Kat show THE PIED PIPER in my role as dramaturg to the company. The puppets are fantastic and the show promises to be well up to KK's usual very high standards.
Details of the show's run can be found on
...Neil and Julian are giving two performances of STANDARD BEARER at the Royce Gallery - Theater in San Francisco on April 20th and 21st.
Robert Orledge and I are giving a talk about our work on completing Debussy's one act opera THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY at an international symposium about Debussy at Gresham College, London on Friday 13th April.
This follows the successful premiere of the work in Montreal in February. We will be play...
The script of GERONTIUS has now been published and may be bought through Lulu.com by following this link -
At the BBC Audio Drama Awards on Sunday 29th January, my play Gerontius about Cardinal Newman won the Tinniswood Award for best original drama script broadcast in 2010. This is the second time I have won this award and I feel very honoured.
The judges wrote that the script has "remarkable spirit...
AudioGo will be releasing Bonnie Langford's reading of the novel version of PARADISE TOWERS on June 12th 2012.
Just learned that the documentary in the upcoming DVD of my Who story GREATEST SHOW IN THE GALAXY will be about the asbestos crisis which affected its production. Since the commentary sessions were also very much centred on the production time, it means the accompanying material will be almost enti...
The Classic Serial - BEWARE OF PITY by STEFAN ZWEIG
Dramatised for radio by STEPHEN WYATT
(from a stage version by Claire McIntyre)
With PIERS WEHNER, BRYONY HANNAH, RONALD PICKUP,
JASPER BRITTON and MICHAEL JAYSTON
Directed by JANE MORGAN
PART ONE: Sunday 27th November. 3 pm. Radio 4...
Further to the interview in the Observer with PJ Harvey on 24th April which revealed that one of the main inspirations for her recent album Let England Shake was my radio play Memorials to the Missing, I am delighted to be Polly's guest at her concert performance of the album on 30th October a...