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Robert Thorogood (born 1972) is an English screenwriter and novelist. He is the creator of the
BBC One
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's flagship network and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, ...
murder mystery series ''
Death in Paradise''.
He won France Film's "En Route to France" award in 2012.
Early life
Thorogood was educated at
Uppingham School
Uppingham School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school for pupils 13-18) in Uppingham, Rutland, England, founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester, who also established Oakham School. The headma ...
in
Rutland where he met his future wife,
Classic FM presenter
Katie Breathwick. He read History at
Downing College, Cambridge, where he toured with the university's student comedy troupe
Footlights
Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England, founded in 1883 and run by the students of Cambridge University.
History
Footlights' inaugural ...
in 1993 and was elected president in 1994. Soon after leaving Cambridge Thorogood set up a theatre company that toured small theatres and schools, the highlight of which was a production of
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (, ; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, , ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and worl ...
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The Miser
''The Miser'' (french: L'Avare; ; also known by the longer name ''L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge,'' meaning The Miser, or the School for Lies) is a five-act comedy in prose by the French playwright Molière. It was first performed on September ...
'' that he directed and acted in alongside
Robert Webb
Robert Patrick Webb (born 29 September 1972) is an English comedian, actor, writer, and television personality. He is one half of the double act Mitchell and Webb, alongside David Mitchell. Webb and Mitchell both starred in the Channel 4 sitco ...
,
David Mitchell and
Olivia Colman.
Writing career
Thorogood wrote for many years – offering scripts to the
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ITV and independent film companies – but before 2011 the only script of his that was actually produced was a
Radio 4 afternoon drama play called ''From Abstraction'', about the life of mathematician
Paul Wolfskehl.
In 2008, Thorogood entered the inaugural Red Planet Prize and was a chosen finalist, where he was able to pitch his 'Copper in the Caribbean' idea to
Tony Jordan
Tony Jordan (born 21 July 1957) is a British television writer. He was listed as the number one television screenwriter in the United Kingdom by ''Broadcast'' magazine in 2008 and among British broadcasting's top twenty in ''The Stage'' in 20 ...
. In 2011, the show was finally broadcast.
''Death in Paradise''
Thorogood wrote five episodes of the first series of ''
Death in Paradise''. The first episode aired in November 2011 to an overnight audience of nearly 6 million. The first episode of the second series aired in 2013 to an overnight audience of nearly 7 million. Thorogood also wrote two episodes on the second series, three of the third series, and one episode in each of the following series, except for the tenth series. In February 2019 it was announced by the BBC that the show had been commissioned for series nine and ten.
Spin-off novels
In January 2014, it was announced that Thorogood had signed a deal with MIRA / Harlequin to write three Richard Poole Murder Mystery novels. The first of the three – ''A Meditation on Murder'' – was published in hardback in January 2015 and in paperback in May 2015.
The second – ''The Killing of Polly Carter'' – was published in hardback in December 2015 and in paperback in early 2016. The third – ''Death Knocks Twice'' – was published in hardback in July 2017 and in paperback in October 2017. ''Murder in the Caribbean'', the fourth mystery, was published in December 2018.
''The Marlow Murder Club''
In 2020 it was announced that Thorogood was writing a brand new murder mystery novel, ''The Marlow Murder Club''. It focuses on a group of older women who form a club to investigate a series of killings in
Marlow. It was published in January 2021 to overwhelmingly positive reviews and was chosen as the Booksellers' Association's Book of the Month. A sequel will be published in January 2023.
''Trackers''
In 2018, it was announced that Thorogood was showrunning ''
Trackers'', a major new TV series set in South Africa, and an adaptation of the novel ''Trackers'' by
Deon Meyer
Deon Godfrey Meyer is a South African thriller novelist, writing in Afrikaans. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages. He has also written numerous scripts for television and film.
Life and career
Meyer was born on 4 July 1 ...
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