The DVD of Greatest Show in the Galaxy is due for release on 30th July.
Stephen will be attending a Tenth Planet signing on 18th August alongside some of the cast.
My lovely BBC radio producer Claire Grove and I have just reached an agreement with Nick Hern Books to write a book (it's part of a series) called SO YOU WANT TO WRITE A RADIO PLAY?
Very much looking forward to working with Claire and Nick. We're due to deliver our manuscript early next year.
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Just been into rehearsals for the new Krazy Kat show THE PIED PIPER in my role as dramaturg to the company. The puppets are fantastic and the show promises to be well up to KK's usual very high standards.
Details of the show's run can be found on
...Neil and Julian are giving two performances of STANDARD BEARER at the Royce Gallery - Theater in San Francisco on April 20th and 21st.
Robert Orledge and I are giving a talk about our work on completing Debussy's one act opera THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY at an international symposium about Debussy at Gresham College, London on Friday 13th April.
This follows the successful premiere of the work in Montreal in February. We will be play...
The script of GERONTIUS has now been published and may be bought through Lulu.com by following this link -
At the BBC Audio Drama Awards on Sunday 29th January, my play Gerontius about Cardinal Newman won the Tinniswood Award for best original drama script broadcast in 2010. This is the second time I have won this award and I feel very honoured.
The judges wrote that the script has "remarkable spirit...
AudioGo will be releasing Bonnie Langford's reading of the novel version of PARADISE TOWERS on June 12th 2012.
Just learned that the documentary in the upcoming DVD of my Who story GREATEST SHOW IN THE GALAXY will be about the asbestos crisis which affected its production. Since the commentary sessions were also very much centred on the production time, it means the accompanying material will be almost enti...
The Classic Serial - BEWARE OF PITY by STEFAN ZWEIG
Dramatised for radio by STEPHEN WYATT
(from a stage version by Claire McIntyre)
With PIERS WEHNER, BRYONY HANNAH, RONALD PICKUP,
JASPER BRITTON and MICHAEL JAYSTON
Directed by JANE MORGAN
PART ONE: Sunday 27th November. 3 pm. Radio 4...
Further to the interview in the Observer with PJ Harvey on 24th April which revealed that one of the main inspirations for her recent album Let England Shake was my radio play Memorials to the Missing, I am delighted to be Polly's guest at her concert performance of the album on 30th October a...
Following the successful try-out of The Standard Bearer in London, Neil and Julian are taking the show back to Los Angeles for a short run at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre from October 19th until November 12th.
The first night was honoured by the presence of the British Consul-General Dame...
Strangers on a Film received a very good review from Elizabeth Mahoney in The Guardian.
Among other favourable notices, Paul Donovan in a preview in The Times wrote:
Delicious dialogue, authentic accents, cinematic music, artistic conflict and subtle characterisation make this outstanding. Th...
STRANGERS ON A FILM
By STEPHEN WYATT
With PATRICK STEWART as Raymond Chandler and CLIVE SWIFT as Alfred Hitchcock
Directed by CLAIRE GROVE
BBC Radio Four. Thursday 29th September at 2.15 pm
THE LONG GOODBYE
By RAYMOND CHANDLER. Dramatised by STEPHEN WYATT
With TOBY STEPHENS as ...
Neil Dickson is performing my monologue THE STANDARD BEARER at the Waterloo East Theatre on Monday 26th September at 7.30. He's been directed by the multi-talented Julian Sands, whose show about Harold Pinter's poetry directed by John Malkovich is currently touring after a very successful run at t...