At the BBC Audio Drama Awards on Sunday 29th January, my play Gerontius about Cardinal Newman won the Tinniswood Award for best original drama script broadcast in 2010. This is the second time I have won this award and I feel very honoured.
The judges wrote that the script has "remarkable spirit...
The Classic Serial - BEWARE OF PITY by STEFAN ZWEIG
Dramatised for radio by STEPHEN WYATT
(from a stage version by Claire McIntyre)
With PIERS WEHNER, BRYONY HANNAH, RONALD PICKUP,
JASPER BRITTON and MICHAEL JAYSTON
Directed by JANE MORGAN
PART ONE: Sunday 27th November. 3 pm. Radio 4...
Further to the interview in the Observer with PJ Harvey on 24th April which revealed that one of the main inspirations for her recent album Let England Shake was my radio play Memorials to the Missing, I am delighted to be Polly's guest at her concert performance of the album on 30th October a...
Strangers on a Film received a very good review from Elizabeth Mahoney in The Guardian.
Among other favourable notices, Paul Donovan in a preview in The Times wrote:
Delicious dialogue, authentic accents, cinematic music, artistic conflict and subtle characterisation make this outstanding. Th...
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 Four. Thursday 29th September at 2.15 pm
THE LONG GOODBYE
By RAYMOND CHANDLER. Dramatised by STEPHEN WYATT
With TOBY STEPHENS as ...
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...
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.
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...
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 ...
On Saturday 13th November we start recording my adaptation of The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler, directed by Claire Grove with Toby Stephens as Philip Marlowe. This is part of a project for Radio 4 to dramatise all of Chandler's novels with Robin Brooks and myself as writers.