Roger Stennett

 

Playwright , Audio Writer, Screenwriter and Poet 

 

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

 

My work often centres on Biographical or Historical themes.

 

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

 

Conflict

 

The English Civil War.

The Spanish Civil War.

The First World War.

The Second World War.

The Battle of Britain 

The Vietnam War.

 

Writers

 

Wilfred Owen, 

Edward Thomas

D.H.Lawrence

Dylan Thomas.

 

Entertainers

 

Buffalo Bill  and The Wild West Show

Glenn Miller. the Bandleader in 1944  

 

Spy

 

Kim Philby in Beirut

 

Cosmonaut Sergei Rasskazov .

 

Princess Caraboo of Javasu 

 

Current work :

 

'White Rabbit' -  Film Screenplay about a former War Photographer in Vietnam, now in his Seventies, living in The Cotswolds

 

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

 

I also have four books of Poetry  .

 

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 - The Three Fates - created with the Bristol artist Les Matthews