Stephen Butchard

2Filmography

Born in Liverpool and trained as an engineer, he spent a year in Beijing working on the underground rail network before turning to writing. Early success arrived in 1997 with the Dennis Potter Award for his play ‘Soft Sand, Blue Sea’, leading to work on television dramas such as Always and Everyone, House of Saddam and Vincent during the 2000s. A 2010 BBC One mini-series, Five Daughters, examined…