Clive Bradley (screenwriter)


Clive Bradley is a British screenwriter who has written for film and television. After graduating from the National Film and Television School, 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 The Vice in 2001, a series for which he contributed two more episodes.
He has worked closely with Touchpaper Television, writing the three-part Last Rights, A Harlot's Progress, and the series City of Vice, for which he was the lead writer; he and Peter Harness were nominated for a Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for the series.
That Summer Day won the BAFTA Award for Best Children’s Drama.
WΔZ, directed by Tom Shankland, was released in 2008.
His two-part episode of the Irish police drama, Single-handed, was broadcast on RTÉ in Ireland in December 2010, and on ITV in the UK in 2011. He teaches at the National Film and Television School.
In 2016 he won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for "Best Long Form TV Drama" for co-writing the first series of the Icelandic TV series Trapped.. He also wrote the second series, filmed in 2017.

Politics

Bradley is a socialist and has been involved with the Alliance for Workers' Liberty and its predecessors since the 1980s.