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 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.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY with Patrick Stewart as Raymond Chandler and Adrian Scarborough as Billy Wilder is being repeated on Radio 4 at 2.15 p.m. on Thursday 18th July.
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...
Just finished the revisions on my dramatisation of THE LONG GOODBYE for Norwegian Radio. Expanded from ninety minutes into four half hour episodes, it's been possible to include material we had to exclude from the BBC version, restoring the characters of Linda Loring and Harlan Potter. The dramatisa...
I have just heard that Sir Fabian Ware, Founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission and the central figure in my radio play MEMORIALS TO THE MISSING is to get a Blue Plaque on the house he lived in Marylebone between 1911 and 1919. I proposed him for commemoration at the time of my play, saying th...
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 -
My favourite comment so far on the ALICE broadcast is from Sarah Vine in The Times - "Stephen Wyatt's new dramatisation is as charming as it is bonkers."
Lots of other nice comments from press and from chums so feeling pretty pleased (and relieved) with how it's been received.
From the BBC webpages -
Lewis Carroll's fantastical story collides with Radio 4 in Stephen Wyatt's dramatisation. Alice crashes through the mirror onto a giant game of chess and an adventure begins.
This magical world is set out like a giant c...
Just spent three very productive days in the studio recording THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS with my producer, Tracey Neale. A very talented cast plus a succession of "guest" Radio 4 voices.
LOOKING GLASS broadcasts on Radio 4 on 22nd December at 2.30 pm.
We go into studio at the end of October with my adaptation of ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS which is planned as a Radio 4 Christmas special. Julian Rhind Tutt is going to play Lewis Carroll which is excellent news!
I've noticed a number of hits looking for information about my Chandler / Hitchcock radio play, STRANGERS ON A FILM. Inspired, I guess, by the BFI's big Hitchcock season.
Should anybody be interested, I've prepared a stage version of STRANGERS in a double bill with DOUBLE JEOPARDY, my Chandler / W...
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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The script of GERONTIUS has now been published and may be bought through Lulu.com by following this link -