My dramatisation of Zola's brilliant novel about the rise of the department store now on BBC Sounds.
THE SONG OF THE COSSACKS My dramatisation for radio of Jean Binnie's play has been repeated and is available on BBC Sounds until the end of the month. Link to BBC programmes
David McGillivray, Radio Times:
Writer and broadcaster Stephen Wyatt has an axe to grind and rightly so. He thinks it is unjust that, as not it’s the composer who gets most of the credit for the success of a musical or opera while the librettist and book writer remains unknown. Wyatt has writte...
My five talks for The Essay on BBC Radio 3 start on Monday 16th at 9.45 pm. They're about the underappreciated art of the librettist in operas and musicals.
Unsung Heroes featured in this week's Radio Times.
Recording Unsung Heroes, my talks for The Essay about the importance of librettists to opera and musicals. They'll be broadcast on Radio 3 in the week beginning 16th June. They were recorded in my own library under the skilled and supportive guidance of producer Torquil Macloud.
Delighted to have been commissioned by Radio 3 to write five talks for The Essay slot on one of my favourite topics - the way in which librettists are consistently underrated in the world of opera. The title is Unsung Heroes and it's transmitting in mid June.
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.
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...
April 12 24, My dramatisations of W.S. Gilbert's short stories Gilbert without Sullivan are available on BBCRadio4 Extra for the next month.
It's Ripley time again. So just a reminder that I did three of the Ripley dramatisations in the Audible Highsmith collection.
Writers are of course not credited.
Very much looking forward to recording this.
Sadly I found out too late that BBC Radio 4 was repeating my dramatisation of one of my favourite novels The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett directed by the late Claire Grove. Hopefully now it's resurfaced it will be scheduled again before too long.
Twenty five years after they were first broadcast, still available on Radio 4 Extra - Sketches by Boz