Clive Bradley (born 1959) 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 (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

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, premiered in 2007. He also wrote a two-part episode of the

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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: '' Ófærð''). He also wrote the second series, filmed in 2017. In June 2021, Bradley was announced as the writer and showrunner of Netflix's '' Castlevania'' 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.

References

External links

*
Channel 4 ''City of Vice'' page

Review of City of Vice
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bradley, Clive 1959 births Living people British male screenwriters Screenwriting instructors British Trotskyists Alliance for Workers' Liberty people Alumni of the National Film and Television School British male television writers