My play about Buxtehude, Handel, Bach and Buxtehude's remarkable daughter is currently available via the Radio 4 Extra iPlayer.
My dramatisation of Dante's The Divine Comedy is available from today on BBCRadio4 Extra and iPlayer.
Still available to listen (just about) on Radio4Extra my play about Gilbert Harding with the wonderful Roger Allam.
Here's a link to the interview I gave at the start of Gallifrey One alongside Philip Martin and Rona Munro. My contribution begins somewhere around 20 minutes in though my proficiency in coping with the hand held microphone leaves much to be desired.
I'll be speaking about So You Want to Write Radio Drama? the book I wrote with Claire Grove at a conference organised by the Writers Guild and the University of Chichester on Saturday 21st October.
Details via this link.
My play The Shadow of Dorian Gray is going to be repeated on Friday 23rd June. A great cast - Blake Ritson, Nicholas Farrell and Josh McGuire - and excellent direction from Abigail le Fleming.
Radio 3 are repeating Finlandia, my play about Sibelius, on Sunday, 28th May at 9pm as a tribute to the much-missed Tim Pigott-Smith, who so sadly and unexpectedly died on 7th April.
My radio dramatisation of Vanity Fair has finally made it on to cd. You would be hard pressed to find my name mentioned on the box or in the publicity but at least it's out there at last.
Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler hated each other on sight and then sat down together to write the screenplay of DOUBLE INDEMNITY, the greatest film noir of all time. But then nothing is black and white in this tale except the movie itself... Hedley England (producer) and Simone Vause (director...
All four of my dramatisations are being broadcast on Radio 4 Extra and are all still available for listening. My personal favourite THE LITTLE SISTER goes out tonight (15th September) and is available for 30 days afterwards.
Radio 4 Extra are also repeating my two plays about Raymond Chandler in Hollywood.
with Patrick Stewart as Chandler and Adrian Scarborough as Billy Wilder is heard first at 11.15 am and 9.15 pm on Monday 22nd August. Then on i Player.
Again with Patrick as...
PIGLAW, a play of mine about a mediaeval town which put a pig on trial for murder is being repeated on Radio 4 Extra. Based on an authentic case, it stars Tony Robinson and Christian Rodska.
MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE By Graham Greene
Dramatised for radio by Stephen Wyatt
With Bernard Cribbins and Philip Jackson. Directed by Marc Beeby
Ten episodes for Fifteen Minute Theatre on BBC Radio 4
August 8th to August 12th and August 15th to August 19th
10.45 am repeated at 19.45 pm....
Oblomov starring the great comedy team of Toby Jones and Trevor Peacock directed by Claire Grove is back on Radio 4 Extra
Today BBC Radio 4 Extra has just started a series of repeats of the ten SKETCHES BY BOX dramatisations I did back in the late 90s. The first is The Tuggses at Ramsgate and it's available for another 29 days.
They all have wonderful casts and sparkling direction by Sally Avens. One of my fav...