Stephen Butchard is an award-winning screenwriter and producer, born in Liverpool. Before writing full time, he trained as an engineer and spent a year in Beijing as a British Government secondee, managing upgrades to the city’s underground rail network.

He began writing for theatre and radio before winning the Dennis Potter Award in 1997 for his first screenplay Soft Sand, Blue Sea. His early TV work includes Little Bird and Lie With Me for Granada.

Stephen has created and written numerous acclaimed dramas, including A&E, Vincent, and the BAFTA-nominated House of Saddam for BBC/HBO. His mini-series Five Daughters won Best Drama at the RTS Awards, with Stephen receiving both the RTS and BAFTA for Best Writer.

His credits also include Good Cop, The Child in Time, The Last Kingdom, Baghdad Central, The Good Mothers (Berlinale Series Award), Shardlake, and This City Is Ours, now in its second series for BBC One.