Roger Stennett

 

A Dramatist, Audio Writer, Screenwriter and Poet with a wide range of subject matter, across a variety of dramatic forms

 

The only man on the planet to have written for both Sooty and The Royal Shakespeare Company 

 

My work is often centred on Biographical or Historical themes.

 

I have written a great deal about conflict, and how 'ordinary' people act in extraordinary circumstances.

The English Civil War.

The Spanish Civil War.

Worlds Wars 1,

World War 2 ,

The Battle of Britain 

The Vietnam War.

 

I have written about writers

Wilfred Owen, 

D.H.Lawrence

Dylan Thomas.

 

Entertainers

Buffalo Bill 

US Band Leader Glenn Miller.  

 

The Spy Kim Philby.

 

Russian Cosmonaut Sergei Rasskazov .

 

Historical 'hoaxers'

Princess Caraboo of Javasu 

18th c Bristol literary forger and poet, Thomas Chatterton 

 

My current and work includes

 

'White Rabbit' - A Film Screenplay about a former War Photographer in Vietnam

 

'Twice Nightly' - A  Film Screenplay set in the colourful Variety Theatre world of my childhood in 1959. 

 

I have four books of Poetry in print .

 

Just A Matter of Time' ( 1976), 

Forty Poem For Dylan Thomas' ( 2022). 

Cloud Cuckoo Land' (2024)

Country Sleep' ( 2026)

 

And a Limited Edition Poster Poem on Art Paper created with the artist Les Matthews who created the artwork for my first book of Poems