Delighted to read that my play GERONTIUS about the relationship between Cardinal Newman and Father Ambrose St John has made the short list for the Tinniswood Award for the best radio script broadcast in 2010.
My dramatisation of The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith is being repeated on Friday 2nd September at 9 pm on BBC Radio 4. This kicks off a repeat of the Complete Ripley and my versions of The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Under Water can be heard on 23rd and 30th September resp...
My radio play, Double Jeopardy, with Patrick Stewart and Adrian Scarborough, is now available for download from AudioGO. Among other sites, it can be obtained via Amazon.
In 1976/7 I helped the Irish film director, Brian Desmond Hurst, put together his memoir, Travelling the Road. Recent years have seen a revival of interest in Brian and his films which include Scrooge, Malta Story, Dangerous Moonlight and Theirs is the Glory. I recently participated in a radio doc...
Clive Swift has just been cast as Alfred Hitchcock in my radio play, Strangers on a Film, which records in late August. He joins Patrick Stewart who again plays Raymond Chandler. The play is about the writing of the screenplay for Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train and broadcasts on Radio 4 at the end...
My copy of the Paradise Towers dvd arrived today in the post. They've done a really good job with the extras and I'm relieved to discover that I didn't make a complete idiot of myself in the interview and commentary. The story will no doubt continue to inspire very mixed reactions. Some people lik...
I was intrigued to read in an interview in the Observer with PJ Harvey for 24th April that one of the main inspirations for her recent album Let England Shake was my radio play Memorials to the Missing. The interview can be found on the Observer's website.
According to Amazon, the DVD of Paradise Towers is being released on July 18th in the UK and August 9th in the States. We're also recording an audio commentary to accompany the eventual DVD release of THE GREATEST SHOW IN THE GALAXY in early May.
Stephen has written the script for Krazy Kat Theatre's new show A VICTORIAN MIKADO. It opens at the New Theatre Royal Plymouth on 4th May and then tours throughout May. Details on the Krazy Kat website.
Neil Dickson will be performing Stephen's monologue THE STANDARD BEARER at The Actors Collective Theatre in West Hollywood on April 28th and May 5th. The play will be directed by Julian Sands.
There's now a further interview with Stephen about his work on WHO and CASUALTY on http://www.bestbritishtv.com/?p=335
Whotopia 20 contains an interview with Stephen about his work on Dr Who on pp.38-41. It's available to download at www.whotopia.ca.
Stephen has recently been commissioned by Radio 4 to write a companion piece to DOUBLE JEOPARDY about the collaboration between Raymond Chandler and Alfred Hitchcock. Called STRANGERS ON A FILM, it will be broadcast in the autumn alongside the second part of the CLASSIC CHANDLER season. Patrick...
My musical comedy Pick Yourself Up runs at the Queens Theatre Hornchurch from 4th to 26th March. PYU brings Moliere's farce, The doctor in spite of himself, into the world of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Al Capone and Sigmund Freud and adds songs by Cole Porter and Jerome Kern. With a talente...
DOUBLE JEOPARDY By STEPHEN WYATT
The story of the writing of the screenplay for Double Indemnity
with PATRICK STEWART as Raymond Chandler and
ADRIAN SCARBOROUGH as Billy Wilder
Directed by CLAIRE GROVE
BBC Radio Four. Friday 4th February 2011 at 2.15 pm
This is a prelude to the ...