| Seeds of Faith : Music As Sacred Experience | 3 x 15′ programmes: Ideas of the Sacred: The Aesthetics of Ecstasy: Music, Meaning & Value. |
| 1995 Radio 4. Writer-presenter | https://soundcloud.com/mmsteer/sets/bbc-radio-documentaries |
| In Search of Sa Baba | 2 x 30′ documentary recorded on location in India 8/94 |
| 1995 BBC Local Radio network. Writer-presenter | https://soundcloud.com/mmsteer/sets/bbc-radio-documentaries |
| Music For The Passing Hours | 30′ Omnibus Documentary. A musical conversation Dr Raj Bhau Sontakke recorded on location in India 8/94 |
| 1995 BBC World Service. Writer-presenter | https://soundcloud.com/mmsteer/sets/bbc-radio-documentaries |
| Kaleidoscope Special: MIDI Magic | 60′ Documentary on Music Technology |
| 1991 Radio 4. Writer-presenter |
| Kaleidoscope | Featured interview on Notes from Janàcek’s Diary by Paul Allen recorded at RCM Studio |
| 1991 Radio 4 |
| Notes From Janàcek’s Diary | Electro-acoustic realisation of the occasional writings & musical sketches of Leos Janàcek |
| 1991 Radio 3: Writer-composer-producer | https://soundcloud.com/mmsteer/sets/notes-janacek-diary A kaleidoscope of subtle and bewitching effects Times Deserves to be listened to on the best available equipment Independent. Like one of those lyrical sound pictures I can half remember from the great days of the Third Programme. While in no way suggesting anybody infringe copyright, I must say to let a work as richly rewarding as thisile in pass by with but a single hearing is a far greater crime. Classical Music |
| Mr V | BBC 1989 Prix Italia entry |
| 1988 Radio 3 |
| Ravel’s ‘Basque Concerto’ | Based on Marguerite Long’s memoirs |
| 1988 Radio 3: script |
| Shostakovich In New York | Shostakovich’s visit to the 1948 ‘Peace Congress’ during the Berlin Blockade, based on authentic news reports and Shostakovich’s own memoirs |
| 1988 Radio 3: script |
| Traitor & Enemy To The People | The orchestrated denunciation of Shostakovich at the 1948 Composers’ Congress compiled from verbatim transcripts |
| 1988 Radio 3: script |
| The Original American In Paris | 70′ Drama-doc about the composer George Antheil (1900-69) |
| 1988 Radio 3: script | An amusing dramatic feature about an unorthodox musician … good fun. FT |
| A Short Walk From London To Venice | 45′ Adaptation of Thomas Coryate’s Crudities – an account of his European travels in 1609, read by John Wells, with music of the period from Gibbons to D’Anglebert played by MMS on period harpsichords at Fenton House & a chamber organ |
| 1988 Radio 3: script-performance | https://soundcloud.com/mmsteer/sets/bbc-radio-3-drama-a-short-walk Sheer delight The Listener Thoroughly enjoyable Guardian This entertaining compilation Times A memorable excursion into the past. Daily Telegraph |
| Prom Interval Talks | Copland’s First Dance Steps: read by Sam Wanamaker Looking Over Ravel’s Shoulder translated & adapted from Colette, read by Margaret Wolfit Debussy Visits London For The Ring, read by David Suchet Milhaud Discovers Jazz, read by David Garth |
| 1987 Radio 3: scripts | Dr Arne’s Pleasure : Last Night of the Proms |
| Nights At The Opera | 3 programmes adapted from Berlioz’s novel Les Soirées de l’Orchestre; read by Kenneth Haigh |
| 1987 Radio 3: translation & script | https://soundcloud.com/mmsteer/kenneth-haigh-reads-from-berlioz-les-soirees-de-lorchestre-1 |
| Count Omega | 100′ adaptation of a surreal novel by the famous eccentric Lord Berners which also featured previously unrecorded music by Berners himself, performed by MMS & the Aquarius Ensemble, dir Nic Cleobury – with Rupert Graves, Jane Wyman, Rachel Gurney, Timothy Bateson |
| 1987 Radio 3: script | https://soundcloud.com/mmsteer/sets/bbc-radio-3-drama-count-omegaing The big drama of the week on Radio 3 – A pleasantly exotic whimsy. The Listener These highly original (musical) works help to make the characters seem more credible than on the printed page … As a result Count Omega was magnified by its translation from novel to radio play; and Lord Berners’ fantasy became a musical extravaganza. TLS |
| Escape From The Harem | 60′ drama based on Jean François Regnard’s memoir of love and slavery in Algiers 1681-3, with Lindsay Duncan, David Rintoul, Gordon Reid, & Nadim Sawalha; & contemporary music by Campra, Rebel & others researched by Nancy Hadden, played by Philomel, leader Roy Goodman, and directed by Nancy Hadden & MMS |
| 1987 Radio 3 |
| The Composer’s Voice | An anthology of writings by 20thC composers Debussy Visits London For The Ring; read by David Suchet Self-Advertisement For Rutland Boughton, read by Nigel Anthony Milhaud Discovers Jazz, read by David Garth Elizabeth Lutyens During The War, read by Elizabeth Spriggs Ives in London, read by Bruce Boa An American In Berlin (George Antheil), read by Gary Waldhorn |
| 1984 Radio 3 | https://soundcloud.com/mmsteer/sets/bbc-radio-3-programmes |
| Music’s Freaks | 3 Programmes on Les Grotesques de la Musique by Hector Berlioz, read by Robert Stephens |
| 1984 Radio 3: discovered, translated & scripted for broadcast | https://soundcloud.com/mmsteer/sir-robert-stephens-reads-berlioz-les-grotesques-de-la-musique-2 |
| Torquato Tasso | Göthe, trans Alan Brownjohn |
| 1982 Radio 3; music | https://soundcloud.com/mmsteer/bbcr3-music-by-michael-maxwell-steer-for-goethes-play-torquato-tasso-bbcr3 |
| Music Of The Beggar’s Opera | Music Programme with Barlow Baroque Players |
| 1980 Radio 3; harpsichord |
| Baroque Flute Sonatas | Music Programme with Jeremy Barlow |
| 1980 Radio 3; harpsichord |
| Music Producer | Assignments included This Week’s Composer, Jazz Record Requests, Mozart Piano Concertos (26 part Series ) and The Art Of Melodrama |
| 1979 Radio 3 | https://soundcloud.com/mmsteer/bbc-radio-3-chopin-this-weeks-composer-1 |
| Boyce Tercentenary Concert | Music Programme with Barlow Baroque Players |
| 1980 Radio 3; harpsichord |
| Vanity Fair | 10 eps Thackeray |
| 1978 BBC Radio 4: music | https://soundcloud.com/mmsteer/vanity-fair-live-1-opening |
| A Life | Maupassant |
| 1978 BBC Radio 4: music |
| Cry God For Harry | 6 Eps – Henry IVi/ii+V with Sir Michael Redgrave’s last recorded performance |
| 1977 BBC World Service; music |
| Montana | Movement for String Orchestra performed by London Studio Strings |
| 1976 BBC Radio 3, Composer |
| Concerto for Harpsichord & 5 instruments by Manuel de Falla | |
| 1975 Capital Radio; Soloist / Director |
| A Fiction Of Islands | 10 Programmes |
| 1974, BBC World Service, composer |