15: Episode 15 - Michael Stewart

Mik Artistik's Ego Podcast

For Episode 15, for the penultimate episode of series 1 of Mik Artistik’s Ego Podcast, Mik sat down with multi award winning writer, actor and filmmaker Michael Stewart!

Michael is an all round creative and several of his plays have been professionally staged including his adaptation of Dracula, as well as his work appearing on BBC Radio 4, his debut book ‘King Crow’ was awarded the Not Booker prize by The Guardian in 2011. He is now Head of Creative Writing at University of Huddersfield.

Michaels latest book release is Ill Will: The Untold Story of Heathcliff, which was published by HarperCollins. His most recent work has been the creation of the amazing ‘Bronte Stones’ project - four monumental stones placed between the sisters birthplace in Thornton and the parsonage where they wrote their famous work in Haworth, inscribed with poetry by Kate Bush, Carol Ann Duffy to name but a few

In today's episode Mik and Michael chat about growing up in Salford, writing non stop for 20 years, Edgar Allan Poe, The Bronte sisters, the last wolf in England and their mutual love for Eugene Chadbourne!

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Website: http://www.michael-stewart.org.uk

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