![]() The first episode aired in November 2011 to an overnight audience of nearly 6 million. Thorogood wrote five episodes of the first series of Death in Paradise. 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. Thorogood wrote for many years – offering scripts to the BBC, 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. 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's The Miser that he directed and acted in alongside Robert Webb, David Mitchell and Olivia Colman. He read History at Downing College, Cambridge, where he toured with the university's student comedy troupe Footlights in 1993 and was elected president in 1994. ![]() Thorogood was educated at Uppingham School in Rutland where he met his future wife, Classic FM presenter Katie Breathwick. ![]() ![]() He won France Film's "En Route to France" award in 2012. He is the creator of the BBC One murder mystery series Death in Paradise. ![]() Robert Thorogood (born 1972) is an English screenwriter and novelist. ![]()
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