Another chance to hear -
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 4 Friday 9th May at 2.15 pm
September 25th 2014 has been chosen as the date for the unveiling of the Blue Plaque for Fabian Ware, founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission (now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission) and the central figure in my play MEMORIALS TO THE MISSING. Final details have yet to be settled but I'm de...
Moira Petty praises our "Glorious adaptation" in The Stage.
Another very favourable review in The Financial Times from somebody who clearly knows his Dante. Here's a slightly abridged version of what he had to say.
Pick of the Weekend: Martin Hoyle
Stephen Wyatt’s dramatisation of Dante’s Inferno grabs us by the hand in Radio 4’s ebullient producti...
Another nice review from Kate Chisholm in The Spectator. The review is in the second part of the article.
Very nice review in The Radio Times:
THE DIVINE COMEDY
It’s a brave writer who dares to take on Dante’s epic three-part poem The Divine Comedy. Playwright Stephen Wyatt, who has steered a radical course with this version, follows in the footsteps of Henry Wadswort...
THE DIVINE COMEDY by DANTE ALIGHIERI
Dramatised by STEPHEN WYATT
With BLAKE RITSON, JOHN HURT, DAVID WARNER and HATTIE MORAHAN
Directed by MARC BEEBY and EMMA HARDING
Episode One: INFERNO
Sunday 30th March 3 pm BBC Radio 4
Episode Two: PURGATORIO
Sunday 6th April 3 pm BBC Ra...
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 .
Classic Chandler with Toby Stephens as Philip Marlowe, produced by Claire Grove, directed by Claire, Mary Peate and Sasha Yevtushenko and dramatised by Robin Brooks and Stephen Wyatt is being repeated on BBC Radio 4 on the following Saturdays at 2.30 pm -
The Big Sleep – 15th Feb (Robin/Claire)...
My producers, Marc Beeby and Emma Harding, have assembled a wonderful cast for my dramatisation of Dante's The Divine Comedy for Radio 4. It's headed by John Hurt, David Warner, Blake Ritson and Hattie Morahan. The first day of recording was today and I'm delighted with how things are turning out. T...
On 11th January between 9 and 12 Radio 4 Extra is devoted to the life of Gilbert Harding, televsion's first ever "personality". It features extracts from his appearances as quizmaster and panellist on Round Britain Quiz, Twenty Questions and What's My Line? as well as the whole of his Face to Face i...
Stephen will be talking about So You Want to Write Radio Drama? which he co-wrote with Claire Grove at New Writing South's Broadcasting Industry Day on Saturday 30th November. Copies of the book will be on sale!
Claire Grove, co-author of our radio drama book, died yesterday afternoon after a long and courageous battle with cancer. She was a wonderful collaborator and such a warm, vibrant, energetic and funny woman that it's hard to believe she's no longer with us.
Dear Claire, you will be much missed.
H...
A nice review from Gillian Reynolds in The Daily Telegraph:
Radio drama has its own voice, of course, one with the power to take you anywhere. Monday’s Afternoon Drama last week, The Organist’s Daughter by Stephen Wyatt, was just such a play. Simon Russell Beale, the National’s most-darin...
Monday 14th October 2013 at 2.15 pm
BBC Radio 4
THE ORGANIST’S DAUGHTER
By
Stephen Wyatt
Directed by Martin Jenkins
with
Emma Fielding and Simon Russell Beale
Dieterich Buxtehude was famous throughout Europe for his skill as an organist. Many musicians coveted the post he h...