Roger Stennett

 

The only person in the world to have written for both 

'Sooty' and The Royal Shakespeare Company 

 

Much of my work centres on Biographical and Historical themes.

 

I have written a great deal about War and conflict

 

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 .

 

Historical Hoaxers

Princess Caraboo of Javasu 

Thomas Chatterton - Poet and Teenage Literary Forger

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 Variety Theatre world of my childhood in 1959. 

 

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