Whotopia 20 contains an interview with Stephen about his work on Dr Who on pp.38-41. It's available to download at www.whotopia.ca.
Stephen has recently been commissioned by Radio 4 to write a companion piece to DOUBLE JEOPARDY about the collaboration between Raymond Chandler and Alfred Hitchcock. Called STRANGERS ON A FILM, it will be broadcast in the autumn alongside the second part of the CLASSIC CHANDLER season. Patrick...
My musical comedy Pick Yourself Up runs at the Queens Theatre Hornchurch from 4th to 26th March. PYU brings Moliere's farce, The doctor in spite of himself, into the world of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Al Capone and Sigmund Freud and adds songs by Cole Porter and Jerome Kern. With a talente...
DOUBLE JEOPARDY By STEPHEN WYATT
The story of the writing of the screenplay for Double Indemnity
with PATRICK STEWART as Raymond Chandler and
ADRIAN SCARBOROUGH as Billy Wilder
Directed by CLAIRE GROVE
BBC Radio Four. Friday 4th February 2011 at 2.15 pm
This is a prelude to the ...
Paradise Towers is apparently finally scheduled for release in 2011. I have recently given an interview which will be used to accompany the release. I've also contributed to a running commentary which will be available as another add-on.
On Saturday 13th November we start recording my adaptation of The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler, directed by Claire Grove with Toby Stephens as Philip Marlowe. This is part of a project for Radio 4 to dramatise all of Chandler's novels with Robin Brooks and myself as writers.
My online course THE CRAFT OF WRITING FOR RADIO starts in January 2011. This is the second time I've taught this introductory course which has been created in collaboration with New Writing South and the University of Sussex. Places can be booked via the New Writing South website.
UPDATE
I'm...
In early November I start work as Dramaturg with Kinny and Krazy Kat Theatre on their new children's show The Sleeping Princess.