All ten of my Sketches by Boz dramatisations currently available again on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
The casts are fantastic and Sally Avens did a brilliant job.
I think this one is still my favourite - Love and Oysters
Smith Scripts have just added two more of my scripts - MEMORIALS TO THE MISSING and the stage version of OBLOMOV.
More details here.
In the latest issue (508-9) a nice article by Matthew Peck about Classic Who Infinity which mentions the question and answer session I gave the group in April. And very good fun it was too.
Gilbert Without Sullivan, my dramatisations of W.S,Gilbert's short stories, narrated by Jonathan Coy, are being repeated on BBCRadio 4. Episodes are available for four weeks. Ep One The Finger of Fate stars the wonderful combination of Stephen Moore and Alison Steadman.
https://www.bbc.co.u...
Just published online by Smith Scripts, the stage versions of my two pieces about Raymond Chandler in Hollywood - Double Jeopardy and Strangers on a Film. Plus the text of my ground-breaking comedy about love, lust and older gay men, Told Look Younger.
Details here.
Generous praise from award-winning writer and historian, Anton Gill:
I think THE WORLD AND HIS WIFE is brilliant. You manage to recreate a period style without being heavy handed about it at all, and the characters emerge fully 3D through a difficult technical process perfectly suited to your subj...
The splendid Smith Scripts website has now published two of my stage plays: Tales the Countess Told and The Speculator, my adaptation of Balzac's only comedy. Details can found here.
Many years ago I worked with the legendary Irish film director Brian Desmond Hurst on his memoirs. Plans are now well advanced to get these memoirs into print as part of a lavish new illustrated volume about Brian's films prepared by Brian's great nephew Allan Elser Smith and his daughter Caitlin...
First announcement of the first slate of Cutaway Comics including Paradise Found inspired by Paradise Towers.
There's also an article by Matt Charlton in the latest edition of Dr Who Magazine about the Cutaway launch with some comments from me.
Had great fun writing the screenplay for IF IT'S BAROQUE, DON'T FIX IT, a lockdown romp for all my chums at the Weaver Dance Company. Currently in production, with Matt Devitt as director and Evelyn Nallen in charge of music, it's loosely based on Handel's Agrippina and offers among others things...
Plans are proceeding apace for the comic book based on the characters of Paradise Towers. See the upcoming issue of Dr Who Magazine. Good wishes to writer Sean Mason and publisher Gareth Kavanagh in this new venture.
"If you are a fan of Stephen Wyatt and the Greatest Show in the Galaxy this is a simple treat." Great review from The Doctor Who Big Blue Box Podcast.
A splendid new review of The World and His Wife on Amazon (Verified Purchase no less):
"This is one of the funniest books I've read in a long time: an account of the savage and very public marital battle between two giant Victorian egos, "Sir Niggardly Liar" and his wife Rosina, a room-silencing...
A great review in Dr Who Magazine: "The Psychic Circus serves not only as a thrilling story in its own right, but also a joyous celebration of Sylvester McCoy's entire tenure."
Here's a link to a podcast I did for the new Who podcast series The Sirens of Audio. My contribution starts about fifteen minutes in. Thanks to Dwayne Bunney.