ME AND HIM AND WHO

An update from Barnaby Eaton-Jones who went into the studio with the script yesterday:

STAY TUNED!

The flamboyant John Nathan-Turner dedicated the majority of his professional (and personal) life to Doctor Who, culminating in his role as Producer  from 1979 to 1989; when the original run of the show finished.

Stephen Wyatt ('The Greatest Show in the Galaxy') has written a beautifully poignant and waspishly witty two-hander about the last years of JN-T, as he tries to write his 'tell-all memoir' alongside his outspoken partner, Gary Downie.

It was a delight to record this yesterday, with actors Christopher Guard and Peter Noble as JN-T and Gary, respectively. Both of them sparking off each other, imbuing the conversations with an undulating rise and fall that gives it all some proper dramatic heft.

I'm on directing and producing duties, as ever, but it was also great fun script-editing Stephen's brilliant script and immersing myself in those larger than life characters.

Thanks to AUK Studios for commissioning this.

There will be a better announcement once the sound design and music has been completed. Please look out for it as, I assure you, it's a cracking character piece.

MYTHMAKERS

My interview with Robert Dick for Reeltime directed by Keith Barnfather is now out and available for purchase.

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WHOOVERVILLE

Had a great time at Whooverville over last weekend. Particularly pleased to share a platform with Andrew Smith for a Who writers' panel skilfully chaired by fellow writer Ashley Gregory.

ME AND HIM AND WHO

Have delivered the final script of my audio drama ME AND HIM AND WHO about John Nathan-Turner and Gary Downie to Barnaby Eaton-Jones and AUK Productions. Hopefully it'll be going into roduction soon.

WHOOVERVILLE

Very much looking forward to attending Whooverville in Derby on 3rd September.

THE WALLSCRAWLER AND OTHER STORIES

I am proud to announce that The Wallscrawler is now published and available for order.

Generous praise for the book from Andrew Cartmel, Jessica Martin, Paul Magrs and that master of the short story, Rob Shearman.

PARADISE TOWERS FROM CUTAWAY COMICS

PARADISE TOWERS #3 now up for pre-order at http://cutawaycomics.co.uk. Art bySilvano Beltramo, script by Sean Mason.+ TWO back up strips, a short story and a packed VAM DVD including 3 new Season 24 commentaries with  Andrew Cartmel, Stephen Wyatt, Makcolm Kohll, Ian Briggs and Justin Johnson.

PRAISE FOR THE WALLSCRAWLER

Generous praise for The Wallscrawler from Jessica Martin and Rob Shearman:

From Jessica:

'I first had the pleasure of working with Stephen on the Doctor Who adventure “The Greatest Show in the Galaxy”playing the part of Mags, a reluctant werewolf ensnared by an exploitative intergalactic explorer, Captain Cook. All these years on, I am proud to have become a personal friend of Stephen’s and was honoured that he chose to write a play for me. I am now more in awe of him than ever, having read this collection of short stories which leave no-one in doubt as to why his two Doctor Who stories are so memorable and well-loved. He is a master of characterisation; the personalities in his stories are empathetic, believable with a healthy dose of humour of the self-deprecating or ironic variety, whether we’re in the head of an intergalactic fortune-teller, a five thousand year-old ice man ruminating how his cadaver has affected the lives of all the people who ever set eyes on his remains or an elderly woman about to be put on the scrap heap from her job in an art gallery. I didn’t expect to enjoy six stories based on prophets from the Old Testament but I have to say that these were perhaps my favourites…especially the one told by a spice trader witnessing the final days of Sodom.

So, bravo Stephen Wyatt. Looks like you’ve written another opus that will stand the test of time and many dimensions!'

From Rob Shearman:

'Of all the writers in Doctor Who's long history, is there any voice more distinctive than Stephen Wyatt's? He creates strange new worlds that are both crazy and credible, characters that are larger than life and yet achingly, movingly human. I have been in awe of his imagination since I saw it on TV as a teenager. Reading the full range of his work here, in Who and far, far apart from it, is a joy.'

THE WALLSCRAWLER AND OTHER STORIES

Very excited at the announcement by Obverse Books of the publication in early August of the collection of my short fiction The Wallscrawler and Other Stories.

It comes with a brilliant cover by Cody Schell

THE COMPLETE RIPLEY

Just found that The Complete Ripley (where I did three of the five dramatisations of the Patricia Highsmith originals) has just been reissued by Audible.