John Yorke
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John Yorke

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John Yorke is a drama producer, consultant and lecturer on all forms of narrative – from speech writing and advertising to drama. 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 Life On Mars, The Street, Shameless, Father Brown, Waterloo Road, Our Girl and Bodies, as well as winning a BAFTA as Exec Producer of EastEnders in 2002. 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 best selling book on how and why we tell stories - John was for many years Visiting Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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    • How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
    • By: John Yorke
    • Narrated by: John Yorke
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

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