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Peter Stead FLSW (born 1943) is a Welsh writer, broadcaster and historian.

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, 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.

Works

• 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)

References

1. "Seren". Archived from the original on 26 October 2007. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
2. New Writing International
3. Wales, The Learned Society of. "Peter Stead". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
4. University of Wales Press Archived 2008-10-14 at the Wayback Machine

• 1943 births
• Welsh broadcasters
• Living people
• People educated at Gowerton Grammar School
• 20th-century Welsh historians
• Historians of Wales
• 21st-century Welsh historians
• Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales