Clive Bradley (born 1959) is a British screenwriter who has written for film and television. After graduating from the

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, he was one of the winners of the first Orange Prize for Screenwriting in 1999.

Career

Bradley's first work for television was the episode "Force of Nature" for ITV’s ''

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'' in 2001, a series for which he contributed two more episodes (2002-2003). He has worked closely with Touchpaper Television, writing the three-part '' Last Rights'' (

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Education 2004), ''A Harlot's Progress'' (Channel Four 2006), and the series ''City of Vice'' (Channel Four 2007), for which he was the lead writer; he and

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were nominated for a

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award for the series. ''That Summer Day'' (Children’s BBC 2006) won the

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for Best Children’s Drama (2007). ''

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'', directed by

Tom Shankland Thomas Otto Shankland (born 7 May 1968) is an English film and television director and screenwriter. He is known for directing the horror films '' WΔZ'' (2007) and '' The Children'' (2008), and television series such as '' The Fades'' (2011), '' ...

, premiered in 2007. He also wrote a two-part episode of the Irish police drama, '' Single-Handed''. He teaches at the National Film and Television School. In 2016 he won the

Award for "Best Long Form TV Drama" for co-writing the first series of the Icelandic TV series '' Trapped''. (in Icelandic: ''

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''). He also wrote the second series, filmed in 2017. In June 2021, Bradley was announced as the writer and

showrunner A showrunner is the top-level executive producer of a television series. The position outranks other creative and management personnel, including episode directors, in contrast to feature films, in which the director has creative control over th ...

of Netflix's ''

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'' spin-off, '' Castlevania: Nocturne'', set in 1792 France. In December, it was announced Bradley would be adapting

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's ''Winston Churchill's Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare'' into a ten-episode television drama.

Politics

Bradley is a socialist and has been involved with the

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and its predecessors since the 1980s. He was an active member of

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during the 1984-5 miners’ strike.

References

External links

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Channel 4 ''City of Vice'' page

Review of City of Vice
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