By Kevin Duffy • Published 29th April 2013
Michael Stewart, the critically acclaimed Bluemoose novelist, has written the script for this Friday’s Afternoon Drama on BBC Radio 4.
The play, Dead Man’s Suit, is a black comedy about a loner who, having bought a suit from a charity shop, secures a powerful job and finds women take an interest in him for the first time. Does the suit possess some sort of supernatural power? Or is it something more sinister?
Stewart is a former winner of the Alfred Bradley Bursary Award, which is run in partnership with Radio Drama North and BBC writers room, to encourage and develop new writing in the North. The bursary was set up to commemorate the life and work of the distinguished BBC radio drama producer.
Dead Man’s Suit is Stewart’s third Afternoon Drama. His two previous plays were Excluded and Castaway.
The Guardian described Stewart as a ‘poetic writer … good at capturing moments of beauty.’ His début novel, King Crow, won the Guardian’s Not the Booker prize in 2001.
Dead Man’s Suit airs this Friday (3rd May) at 2.15pm on Radio 4.
