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Darren Rapier talks to two-time Tinniswood Award winner Stephen Wyatt about his writing for radio, stage and television.
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Edited transcript
How did you get started as a writer?
I was always obsessed with writing. I was the sort of kid who filled up notebooks with plays and bombarded the school magazine with endless articles. But when I started to study English Literature, first for O Level, then A Level and then at university, the creativity rather dried up. I became very self-conscious and it was only towards the end of my university time that I started writing again. I did a PhD and began a career as an academic, but it was not for me and, quite soon, and I gave it up and became a freelance writer.
Have you found the PhD to be useful in your writing?
In some ways; it was in 19th Century popular theatre and so gave me a very broad idea of what theatre can be. It has also been of practical use. I did two radio series of adaptations of stories by W.S. Gilbert, which we called Gilbert Without Sullivan, and that was directly drawing on what I discovered during my PhD.
I understand that you got involved with the Footlights at Cambridge...
Yes, I directed a Footlights review called Every Packet Carries A Government Health Warning. But I realised I wasn’t really a light-entertainment writer or producer, it’s just not my temperament. Then I got a job as writer-researcher with the Coventry Theatre and Education Team, which I did for a year was quite difficult for me because it was a very new sort of world, but it did mean that I really learned to think about the purpose of each show.
Author, biographer and travel writer Lucinda Hawksley talks about her work, including Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens’s Artist Daughter. Recorded at the Guild's Off The Shelf At Black's Event, March 2012..
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Screenwriter Lindsay Shapero talks to Oscar-winning British editor Jim Clark about his work on films such as Marathon Man, The Killing Fields and Vera Drake, and his thoughts about writing and writers. Jim's memoir Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing (with John H Myers) is published by LandMarc Press.
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Amanda Whittington (playwright and Chair of the Writers' Guild Theatre Committee - pictured) introduces three speakers at the Guild's Literary Managers meeting 2011: Kate Chapman (Director, Theatre Writing Partnership), Caroline Jester (Dramaturg, Birmingham Repertory Theatre) David Edgar (playwright and President of the Writers' Guild).
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The latest Off the Shelf at Black's event - a collaboration between the Writers' Guild and Fiction Uncovered. Novelist Chioma Okereke will read from her work and discuss her writing.
The event runs from 11am-4pm at Black's Club in London for a maximum of 23 attendees, who will have a chance to read some of their own work after lunch. Cost is £25,including 2-course lunch.
An Off the Shelf at Black's event - a collaboration between the Writers' Guild and Fiction Uncovered. Helen Smith and David Nobbs will read from their work and discuss comic writing.
The event runs from 11am-4pm at Black's Club in London for a maximum of 23 attendees, who will have a chance to read some of their own work after lunch. Cost is £25,including 2-course lunch.
Jeremy Howe, the Commissioning Editor for Radio 4 drama, will be describing his work and answering the audience’s questions with Amanda Whittington, followed by drinks and light refreshments.
