Robert Thorogood

Robert Thorogood is an English author of crime fiction novels. He is best known as a screenwriter, who created the BBC 1 series Death in Paradise. Robert attended Uppingham School in Rutland and studied History at Downing College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he toured with the university’s student comedy troupe Footlights in 1993 and was elected President in 1994. Shortly after leaving Cambridge, Robert set up a theatre company that toured small theatres and schools, the highlight of which was a production of Moliere’s The Miser that he directed and acted in alongside Robert Webb, David Mitchell and Olivia Colman. Robert wrote for many years – selling scripts to the BBC, ITV and independent film companies – but before 2011 the only script of his that was actually broadcast was a Radio 4 afternoon play called From Abstraction about the life of Paul Wolfskehl.