steer composed extensively for broadcast, including julius cæsar in the bbctv complete shakespeare series, and several series for thames. after a time as a bbcr3 producer began to concentrate increasingly on original writing, and scripted 25 drama /feature programmes for bbc2 and bbcr3/r4, featuring many distinguished artists including david suchet, sam wanamaker, john wells, sir robert stephens and elizabeth spriggs. the royal national theatre commissioned a tormented god, a one-man show for bob stephens based on berlioz’s mémoires; and his stage play the watcher in the rain, about james joyce’s schizophrenic daughter and jung, was produced in 1991 at the rose theatre, london and reviewed in the guardian as ‘fascinating and unpredictable ... with a wealth of theatrical invention.’