John Yorke
John Yorke is Managing Director of both Angel Station and John Yorke Story, where he works as a drama producer, consultant and lecturer on all forms of storytelling. A former MD of Company Pictures where he Exec Produced Wolf Hall, he’s worked as both Head of Channel Four Drama and Controller of BBC Drama Production. As a commissioning Editor/Executive Producer, he championed huge British hits such as Life On Mars, The Street, Shameless and Bodies and in 2005 he created the BBC Writers Academy, a year-long in-depth training scheme which has produced a generation of successful television writers. The author of Into the Woods – the biggest selling screenwriting book in the UK for the last ten years (and the soon-to-be-published Trip to the Moon), John is a double BAFTA winner (as programme maker) and multi BAFTA winner (as commissioner). He presents his own weekly radio show Opening Lines about classic novels on BBC R4, and for many years was Visiting Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He lives in London but works as a story consultant worldwide.