BBC Radio 4 Drama / Factual | Roger Stennett

BBC Radio 4 Drama

30 minute comic play about a dreadful writer and his Computer with a mind of its own.

Hack writer, Hugh Sinclair, is unaware that he is plagiarising Brief Encounter. BBC Producer : Andy Jordan

60 minute play based on a true story of 1817 and set in my village of Almondsbury

An exotic young woman arrives in the village one day speaking an unintelligible language

Who is this mystery 'Princess' ? Over 3 months the truth emerges. BBC Producer Sara Davies

Also written as a Theatre Play for Orchard Theatre Company - Director Bill Buffery

90 minute play set in England in 1944

Parallel and interlinked storylines

American Band Leader Glenn Miller and the crew of a B17 Flying Fortress Bomber .BBC Producer Adrian Bean

90 minute play set in space on the orbiting Russian Space Station MIR

A Cosmonaut who is part of the crew who has been left in space for a year longer than planned

The Collapse of the USSR was responsible. Now the Space Shuttle is helping with a 'lift'. BBC Producer Adrian Bean

60 Minute 'Archive Hour' about 1950 's Variety Theatre

Presented by my father, Comedian Stan Stennett, who spent 70 years in Showbiz

Extensive use of sound Archive material as if we were 'backstage' in 1959. BBC Producer Sara Davies

A series of writers interviewed by Roger Stennett with a group of School Pupils in StudioRoger Stennnett -

Writers included : Roger McGough, Elaine Morgan, Craig Thomas and Lesley Thomas

For several years I was a Visiting Tutor at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

Working with Actors and the Technical Students in a former BBC Sound Studio.

During a week, twice a year, I directed a Radio Drama involving professional actors

Prepped, Recorded and Edited by the BOVTS Technical Students