The official release of this box set is on October 28th but some are out there already. Very much looking forward to the arrival of my copy.
Exciting news from 5064 Productions in Manchester. They're planning a stage production of ME AND HIM AND WHO my play about Who producer John Nathan-Turner and his partner Gary Downie in Manchester for January 2025. I'm going up in November for a pre-production planning meeting.
Holding forth about Brian Desmond Hurst and working with him on his memoirs after a showing of his hugely successful DANGEROUS MOONLIGHT (which gave us the Warsaw Concerto) at the Irish Cultural Institute in Hammersmith. Thanks to Professors Michelle Paulle and Lance Pettitt for organising this eve...
On Sunday 6th October I'm talking about working with the Irish-born film director Brian Desmond Hurst on his memoirs. This follows a showing of his hugely successful Dangerous Moonlight at the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith.
Details here.
My dramatisation of Walter de la Mare's Memoirs of a Midget is currently being repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Atmospherically directed by Martin Jenkins and beautifully acted by Emma Fielding and Robert Glenister it remains one of my favourite dramastisations for radio.
My adaptation of Memoirs...
In the 27th July to 2nd August edition of Radio Times, Anne-Marie talks about Elsy Borders and A House Called Insanity.
The next Dr Who Bluray collection is Season 25 which contains Greatest Show in the Galaxy. Sadly the folk who put this together didn't think it was worth talking to the writers.
News from Cutaway Comics:
What a great listen this trio of tales is from @doctoryatt with lovely work from Sean Mason, Bron Edge and so many of the @ComedySportz_UK Manchester team! Oh and Ian Reddington as Kroagnon. So much fun. It's coming with the PT merch packs soon. Just two more things...
First BBC Press Release -
A House Called Insanity
27 July, 3pm - 4pm
Anne-Marie Duff stars as Elsy Borders, the working-class heroine whose remarkable true story deserves to be far better known. Even though she became a national figure in the late 1930s, no play celebrating her achievements...
For the first time The World and His Wife is available on Kindle.
What happens when love turns sour and becomes a thirty-year public battle? Find out in this funny and dramatic Victorian scandal — a brilliant historical fiction novel by Doctor Who writer Stephen Wyatt. Available now via Amazon....
Here's the press release from AUK:
CLIVE MANTLE & CARLA MENDONÇA STAR IN ‘THE WORLD AND HIS WIFE’ AUDIOBOOK WRITTEN BY ACCLAIMED ‘DOCTOR WHO’ WRITER STEPHEN WYATT AUDIO DRAMA STARS CLIVE MANTLE (GAME OF THRONES, ROBIN OF SHERWOOD) AND CARLA MENDONÇA (CORONATION STREET)
AUDIOBOOK AND NOVEL AVAIL...
My copies arrived yesterday. I've contributed an intro and a story called Build Biceps for Happiness. For more details visit the Obverse Books website
Just out from Obverse Books a new collection of Who stories about Paradise Towers called Ice Hot! with an introduction and a story specially written by me.
April 12 24, My dramatisations of W.S. Gilbert's short stories Gilbert without Sullivan are available on BBCRadio4 Extra for the next month.
