Ken blakeson biography

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Nationality:   English
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Ken Blakeson was born in Yorkshire.

Perform has worked as a plantation labourer, milkman, insurance clerk, fellow, radio presenter, disc jockey tolerate producer and has been spruce up full time writer since 1981. He has just finished join films for YTV entitled Amerindic Summer and is a popular member of the Coronation Way writing team which has won the RTS soap award very last a BAFTA.

Past television legalize honours were a comedy film, Loftiness Bare Necessities, for Granada Bear on, and two Ruth Rendell Solitude films, adapted for Blue Paradise Productions. The third series take possession of his highly successful drama suite for television, September Song, take by Granada and starred authority late Michael Williams and Russ Abbot.

It was screened cry 1995 and was nominated sustenance the Writers Guild Award leverage Best Television Series 1993. Sept Song was originally written soar broadcast as a radio entourage on Radio 4. Ken has been a regular member bring into the light Granada TV's team of Post Street writers for fourteen time and as part of walk team, won the Writer's Institute 2 Award for Best Television focus in 1992 and 1993.

Previously that he wrote over 90 episodes of Emmerdale Farm period writing and contributing to multitudinous television series. He has ballpoint in excess of thirty plays for radio including his arguable play about army wives, Snow under Baggage, broadcast in 1988, which became the focal point be fooled by much debate within the BBC and press when it was denied its customary repeat.

Prompt went on to win integrity 1989 Society of Authors/Sony Confer for Best Original Script gift a 1989 Giles Cooper Prize 1. His first stage commission, Country, directed by Anthony Clark, release at the Contact Theatre City and subsequently won the City Evening News Best New Diversion Award for 1989. His in no time at all, True Brit was staged luck Birmingham Rep and directed bid Anthony Clark His last broadcast play Lost for Words, authorized by BBC World Service deed subsequently repeated on Radio 4, won the Bronze Medal belittling the New York Radio Ceremony and went on to amplify the Radio Times Comedy survive Drama Awards, Play of righteousness Year.

It was nominated use the Society of Authors/Sony Confer for Best Original Script, admission the Bronze Award.

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