Peter Stead FLSW (born 1943) is a Welsh writer, broadcaster and historian.[1]
Stead was born in 1943 in Barry, Wales, and attended grammar schools at Barry and Gowerton. A graduate of Swansea University, he was subsequently a visiting Fulbright scholar at Wellesley College, and at the University of North Carolina. He is Chairman of the Dylan Thomas Literary Prize,[2] and along with the late Patrick Hannan, Stead has been a member of the Welsh team in the radio series Round Britain Quiz for several years. In 2013, Stead was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[3]
Works
edit- Coleg Harlech (1976)
- Ivor Allchurch (Christopher Davies, 1998)
- Film and the Working Class (1989)
- Richard Burton: So Much, So Little (1991)
- Dennis Potter (1995)
- Acting Wales: Stars of Stage and Screen (2002)[4]
References
edit- ^ "Seren". Archived from the original on 26 October 2007. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
- ^ New Writing International[permanent dead link]
- ^ Wales, The Learned Society of. "Peter Stead". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ^ University of Wales Press Archived 2008-10-14 at the Wayback Machine