David Wolstencroft is a Scottish

Scotland

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 television

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 writer

Writer

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 and author

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. He is best known as creator of the BAFTA award-winning TV spy drama Spooks

Spooks

Spooks is a British television drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 – 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 series. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a...

and its spin-off series, Spooks: Code 9. Wolstencroft was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1969 and grew up in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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, Scotland

Scotland

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, later going on to read history at Emmanuel College

Emmanuel College, Cambridge

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, Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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. He won the Royal Television Society

Royal Television Society

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's Network Newcomer award after producing his first drama, Psychos

Psychos (TV series)

Psychos is a six-part British television drama series focusing upon a young medical team and their patients. First broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999, it was written by David Wolstencroft and directed by John McKay and Andy Wilson. It starred Douglas Henshall as Dr...

, for Channel 4 in 1999. More recently, he wrote the screenplay for the film Shooting Dogs

Shooting Dogs

Shooting Dogs, released in the United States as Beyond the Gates, is a 2005 film, directed by Michael Caton-Jones and starring John Hurt, Hugh Dancy and Claire-Hope Ashitey. It is based on the experiences of BBC news producer David Belton, who worked in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide...

. He is also the author of two novels- Good News, Bad News

Good News, Bad News (novel)

Good News, Bad News is a spy/espionage novel by British author David Wolstencroft. The novel was first published in 2004, and was Wolstencroft's first novel...

and Contact Zero. Both are of the espionage/spy genre involving the British intelligence services. He was once in the noted Fairmilehead band "Aeneas Shock" as a keyboard player.