Ben Richards (born 1964) is a British screenwriter and novelist. He was the lead writer on Spooks and is the writer/creator of Party Animals, Outcasts, COBRA and Showtrial. He also created The Tunnel from the Scandinavian original of “The Bridge” as well as adapting “ The Cuckoo’s Calling," the first in Robert Galbraith’s Strike series for BBC1. ^[1]

Before writing novels and TV dramas, he worked for three years as a housing officer in Newham and Islington, London. As a research student at UCL's Department of Geography ^[2] he spent a year investigating public housing in Chile and on his return to Britain began his first novel "to alleviate the boredom of analysing questionnaires" for his PhD thesis. ^[3] Richards was a lecturer at the University of Birmingham and at University College London, where he taught development studies, specialising in South America. ^[3] He is now a full-time writer.

His novels are Throwing the House out of the Window (1996), Don't Step on the Lines (1997), The Silver River (1999), A Sweetheart Deal (2001), The Mermaid and the Drunks (2004) and Confidence (2006). He also contributed to the New Puritans anthology of 2000.

As a screenwriter, Richards has written for the BBC ( Spooks and Party Animals), ITV ( The Fixer) and Channel 4 ( No Angels). He has also written for the British-French crime drama television series The Tunnel, an adaption of The Bridge (Danish-Swedish). ^[4]

• 3am interview
• Ben Richards at IMDb

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