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John Roland Clifford Yorke (born 9 July 1962) [1] [2] is a British television producer and script editor, who was head of Channel 4 Drama 2003–2005, [3] [4] controller of BBC drama production 2006-2012 [5] and MD of Company Pictures (2013-2015).
As Managing Director of Angel Station, John works as a drama producer, consultant and lecturer on all forms of storytelling. Award-winning Irish soap opera Red Rock, co-produced by Angel Station and Element Pictures, launched on TV3 in January 2015 to critical acclaim.
John Yorke is known for I Care a Lot (2020), The Last House on the Left (2009) and Jekyll (2007).
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John Yorke created the BBC Drama Academy in 2005, to nurture the next generation of TV writing talent. As well as his work as a teacher and story consultant, John is also a drama producer.
Apr 1, 2013 · Into The Woods is a revelation of the fundamental structure and meaning of all stories, from the man responsible for more hours of drama on British television than anyone else, John Yorke.
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Feb 17, 2020 · A writer, script editor, and television producer, Yorke’s Into the Woods is a treatise on how to tell great stories, applying Yorke’s own experience and research to the tenets of storytelling laid out in Joseph Campbell’s seminal The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Apr 3, 2014 · John Yorke, creator of the BBC Writers' Academy, has brought a vast array of drama to British screens. Here he takes us on a journey to the heart of storytelling, revealing that there truly is a unifying shape to narrative forms - one that echoes the fairytale journey into the woods and, like any great art, comes from deep within.
