First announcement of the issue of The Divine Comedy on cd. More information to be found on Amazon.
Just caught up on tweets from listeners about the dramatisation. Delighted to read how positive the comments are.
There a short piece from me about working with Claire together with an extract from our radio drama book available now on the BBC Writers Room blog .
A nice review in The Stage from Susan Elkin -
Published Thursday, January 2, 2014
So You Want to Write Radio Drama? By Claire Grove and Stephen Wyatt is a useful new addition to NHB’s eclectic So You Want series. A radio dramatist and a radio play producer, the authors take you step by step ...
A revised version of Andrew Cartmel's Script Doctor has just been published. Still the best account of the McCoy years as they happened. And I should know as I was there! The new edition has a perceptive and supportive preface by Steven Moffat and lots of extra photos, some of them from my own arc...
Just published online in the Writers Guild Newsletter a couple of extracts written by Claire for our book and a short article by me about working with her.
So you want to write Radio Drama? by Claire Grove and Stephen Wyatt will be published by Nick Hern Books on 5th December 2013.
We will be doing a launch in collaboration with New Writing South in Brighton as part of NWS's Broadcasting Industry Day on Saturday 30th November.
My copy of the new release of Sophie Aldred reading Greatest Show in the Galaxy arrived a couple of days ago. Great job by Sophie and Simon Power (music score and special effects)
My dramatisation of ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS broadcast over Christmas 2012 is now available for download from AudioGO. A snip at £1.99! See November 2012 entry for further information about the production.
Just discovered that my dramatisation of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding for Radio 4 directed by Claire Grove is now available for download as an audiobook from AudioGo.
So is my dramatisation of Thackeray's The Yellowplush Papers directed by Abigail Le Fleming and Jessica Dromgoole.
This is a c...
AudioGo has acquired the audio rights in Stephen's second Dr Who novel for the Target range, THE GREATEST SHOW IN THE GALAXY following the success of Bonnie's version of PARADISE TOWERS.
It's scheduled for release on August 1st. No word yet on who's going to be the reader. I must say I'm intr...
The script of my radio play about Cardinal Newman, GERONTIUS, which won the Tinniswood Award for best radio drama script in 2012 is now available via Amazon -
The talk Rob Orledge and I gave at Gresham College earlier this year on our reconstruction of Debussy's Devil in the Belfry - with extended musical extracts from the world premiere - is now available via You Tube
The first chance I've had to sit down and listen to Bonnie Langford's reading of Paradise Towers in full. I'd sampled it before so I knew she'd done a good job. But this time I was really struck by the sharpness and wit of her characterisations and her expert pacing of the narrative. And, to be ho...
This is something I've written for the book about Radio Drama Claire Grove and I are working on - which is a note to myself as well as to other readers of the book.