Richard Broke is a British television and film producer, whose many credits include Winston Churchill, The Wilderness Years, The Monocled Mutineer and the multi award-winning Tumbledown. He was the first executive producer of Screen One for the BBC, with responsibility for around fifty films, culminating in Cold Comfort Farm directed by John Schlesinger, with whom he had also made the award-winning A Question of Attribution. Richard wrote the screenplay and produced Graham Greene’s Doctor Fischer of Geneva, James Mason’s final movie, which also starred Alan Bates, Greta Scacchi and Barry Humphries. More recently, he produced Where the Heart Is and A&E for Granada, followed by P.D. James’ The Murder Room for the BBC and Love Lies Bleeding for Granada. These were followed by Messiah, starring Marc Warren, for the BBC.

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