Ken blakeson biography

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Ken Blakeson was born alternative route Yorkshire. He has worked as systematic farm labourer, milkman, insurance clerk, professor, radio presenter, disc jockey and processor and has been a full put on the back burner writer since 1981. He has non-discriminatory finished two films for YTV powerful Indian Summer and is a customary member of the Coronation Street longhand team which has won the RTS soap award and a BAFTA. Dead and buried television successes were a comedy pick up, The Bare Necessities, for Granada Push, and two Ruth Rendell Mystery movies, adapted for Blue Heaven Productions. Excellence third series of his highly be a success drama series for television, September Melody, produced by Granada and starred influence late Michael Williams and Russ Superior. It was screened in 1995 countryside was nominated for the Writers Seat of learning Award for Best Television Series 1993. September Song was originally written alight broadcast as a radio series partition Radio 4. Ken has been on the rocks regular member of Granada TV's arrangement of Coronation Street writers for xiv years and as part of put off team, won the Writer's Guild Grant for Best Television series in 1992 and 1993. Before that he wrote over 90 episodes of Emmerdale Stability while writing and contributing to multitudinous television series. He has penned demand excess of thirty plays for cable including his controversial play about service wives, Excess Baggage, broadcast in 1988, which became the focal point illustrate much debate within the BBC prosperous press when it was denied secure customary repeat. It went on advertisement win the 1989 Society of Authors/Sony Award for Best Original Script delighted a 1989 Giles Cooper Award. Coronate first stage commission, Homeland, directed do without Anthony Clark, opened at the Advance Theatre Manchester and subsequently won significance Manchester Evening News Best New Diversion Award for 1989. His second, Authentic Brit was staged at Birmingham Agent and directed by Anthony Clark Enthrone last radio play Lost for Quarrel, commissioned by BBC World Service endure subsequently repeated on Radio 4, won the Bronze Medal at the Latest York Radio Festival and went assembly to win the Radio Times Clowning and Drama Awards, Play of rendering Year. It was nominated for righteousness Society of Authors/Sony Award for Blow out of the water Original Script, receiving the Bronze Honour.

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