James Alistair Henry

Author James Alistair Henry looks at the camera, his head tilted slightly backwards. He is in his 40s, with stubble, short salt-and-pepper hair and is wearing black-framed glasses.

Screenwriter and editor James Alistair Henry first started writing while working as a bookseller. He joined the writing team for Channel 4’s Smack the Pony and went on to write the BAFTA-award winning Green Wing, ITV comedy Delivery Man and cult hit Campus as well as episodes for smash-hit children’s television shows Bob The Builder and Hey Duggee. His Radio 4 sketch show, Wosson Cornwall, was selected as BBC Radio Comedy of the Week and his newest sitcom, Piglets, has been commissioned for a second series. His debut novel, Pagans, has been optioned for TV by award-winning international production company, Media Res (The Morning Show, Scenes From A Marriage, Extrapolations). James lives in Cornwall with his wife, a writer and medieval historian, and their two children. 

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