Episodes Broadcast: 1988

Kevin Clarke was raised in Birkenhead, Merseyside and left school to work as a guitarist. He subsequently attended the University of Leeds, where his drama studies led to a teaching post at a comprehensive school. Keen to write full-time, Clarke became a reader for a succession of theatres, and had his first plays produced in the mid-Eighties. This resulted in an invitation to the BBC Television Writers Course which, in turn, helped him secure commissions for Wish Me Luck and The Bill. BBC script editor Caroline Oulton encouraged Clarke to approach the Doctor Who production office, and he wound up writing Silver Nemesis, a Cyberman adventure for Sylvester McCoy's Seventh Doctor which celebrated the programme's twenty-fifth anniversary in 1988. He later novelised his scripts for Target Books.

Clarke subsequently spent several years as the lead writer on The Bill. Other Nineties television included Minder, Ellington and Wycliffe. Following the turn of the century, Clarke wrote episodes of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, The Last Detective and Casualty. He completed an undergraduate degree in history via the Open University, and later earned Masters degrees from both Oxford University and the University of London.