Ben richards biography
Ben richards biography
Ben rich...
Ben Richards (writer)
English writer
For other people named Ben Richards, see Ben Richards (disambiguation).
Ben Richards | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1964 (age 60–61) England, UK |
| Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter and television producer. |
| Period | 1996–present |
| Genre | Drama, adventure, science fiction |
Ben Richards (born 1964) is a British screenwriter and novelist.
He was the lead writer on Spooks and is the writer/creator of Party Animals, Outcasts, COBRA and Showtrial. He also created The Tunnel from the Scandinavian original of “The Bridge” as well as adapting “The Cuckoo’s Calling," the first in Robert Galbraith’s Strike series for BBC1.[1]
Career
Before writing novels and TV dramas, he worked for three years as a housing officer in Newham and Islington, London.
As a research student at UCL's Department of Geography[2] he spent a year investigating public housing in Chile and on his return to Britain began his first novel "to al