Richard Carnaby On air
Writer · Original drama & audio

Twenty-five years watching stories get made. Now writing my own.

An original slate of drama and audio, developed and owned through Carnaby Creative.

The slate

Four projects in development.

Where each one stands right now.

Pitching
Bitter — title artwork
Bitter
Returning drama · 6 × 60′ · Psychological family thriller

A multi-generational family drama about the devastating cost of conditional love — and the one man determined to end a cycle of manipulation, rivalry and inherited trauma that has defined his family for eighty years.

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Pitching
Ashton — title artwork
Ashton
Returning drama · 3 × 60′ · Contemporary premium
Executive Producer · Rob Ellis

When the world's most famous celebrity is murdered, the investigation uncovers a world of fame, family, obsession and exploitation — where the man branded her greatest enemy may have been the only person trying to save her.

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In development
Shots — title artwork
Shots
Contemporary drama · 6 × 60′ · Dark comedy
Executive Producer · Rob Ellis

A glossy, darkly comic thriller set on Spain's glamorous Costa Azure, where wealthy British expats reinvent themselves beneath endless sunshine — until a buried murder threatens to expose the lies they've built their perfect lives upon.

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In development
The Last Straw — title artwork
The Last Straw
Radio · 6 × 15′ · Comedy-drama

When middle-class Londoners Tom Patel and Anouska Harcourt swap the M25 for a derelict 17th-century Norfolk cottage, they think they're renovating a house. Instead, they discover a village determined to renovate them.

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Also · children's fiction

The children's book.

Bluebell and the Beagles Who Flew — cover artwork
Middle-grade novel
Final manuscript

Bluebell and the Beagles Who Flew

~15,000 words · Ages 7–12 · First in a planned series

When a redundant sandwich-maker's biggest customer turns out to be secretly breeding Beagles for research, it falls to his family — his cargo-pilot wife, a fearless grandmother, and Bluebell, a Beagle with a nose for the truth — to rescue dozens of dogs in an escape that can only end one way: by air.

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As a writer

Twenty-five years in newsrooms and studios taught me, up close, how a story holds an audience.

That's the instinct behind the slate: strong characters, a story that keeps you guessing, and no scenes that don't earn their place. I'm happy to send the scripts so you can judge that for yourself.

Representation & development

For literary and development enquiries, start here.