James Graham

James Graham OBE FRSL is a British playwright and screenwriter. His work has been staged throughout the UK and internationally, at theatres including the Bush, Soho Theatre, Clwyd Theatr Cymru and the National Theatre.

Works

Question Time

This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.

Release Date1979-09-25

Charactersd Self - Panellist

Episode Count1

Vote Count13

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

The big names behind the big stories. Laura Kuenssberg talks to those making the news, inside and outside politics.

Release Date2022-09-04

Charactersd Self – Playwright

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

The Crown

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

Release Date2016-11-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count2219

Sherwood

Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. Powerful drama with Lesley Manville and David Morrissey.

Release Date2022-06-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count8

Vote Count72

X+Y

A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.

Release Date2014-03-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count580

Quiz

The story of Charles Ingram, a former British army major who caused a major scandal in the early 2000s after being caught cheating his way to winning £1 million on the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Ingram, his wife Diana and an accomplice, Tecwen Whittock, who was sitting in the audience, initially pulled off the on-screen heist before being caught and standing trial.

Release Date2020-04-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count3

Vote Count89

The Vote

On 7 May, churches, school halls, and back rooms of community centres will be turned into polling stations, staffed by council workers and volunteers. A church polling station is the backdrop for a real-time play for theatre and TV, called The Vote, staged at the exact moment in which the action is set - the last 90 minutes before polls close.

Release Date2015-05-07

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count6

National Theatre Live: This House

It's February 1974. Ted Heath's Conservative government has been ousted. But only just. In the hung Parliament, Labour manages to form a minority government by sending its whips out wheeling and dealing with the Liberals, Scottish Nationalists and Northern Irish politicians. But this fragile alliance lasts only until October, when another election is called. This time, Labour win with a tiny majority of just three. Now things get tougher as old cross-Party agreements break down and even sick and dying MPs are wheeled into the chamber to cast their votes! James Graham's acclaimed new play whisks us back to the days of the UK's previous hung Parliament, when politics got really dirty in the battle for power.

Release Date2013-05-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Brexit: The Uncivil War

Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.

Release Date2019-01-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count329

The Way

Strikes in Port Talbot spark a revolution – and a family of fugitives go on the run. Facing impossible choices, what would you do?

Release Date2024-02-19

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count3

Vote Count10

Bunnylovr

A drifting Chinese American cam girl struggles to navigate an increasingly toxic relationship with one of her clients while rekindling her relationship with her dying estranged father.

Release Date2025-01-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

National Theatre Live: Dear England

The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t England’s men win at their own game? With the worst track record for penalties in the world, Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt, to take team and country back to the promised land.

Release Date2024-01-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Dear England

Dear England

With the worst team track record for penalties in the world when he takes over as manager, Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt to take England back to the promised land. The country that gave the world football has delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can't the England team win at their own game?

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Coalition

Political drama about the rise of Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats during the 2010 election. After the election failed to produce an outright winner, Clegg was catapulted into an unaccustomed position of influence and was the recipient of political courtship from both Labour's Gordon Brown and David Cameron of the Conservative Party.

Release Date2015-03-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count7

Brian and Maggie

A dramatization of the story behind and occasion of Thatcher’s last TV interview, the hugely damaging ITV grilling by her old friend Brian Walden, which some view as the final nail in her prime ministerial coffin.

Release Date2025-01-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

Unprecedented

Unprecedented

Series written and filmed in lockdown that responds to the radical way we have seen our world change during the coronavirus pandemic, featuring the UK’s most celebrated actors.

Release Date2020-05-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Rhythm of Life

A star-studded short film encouraging people to get COVID-19 vaccines and featuring the song "The Rhythm of Life" from the 1966 classic musical, Sweet Charity.

Release Date2021-07-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.

Release Date2023-05-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Caught in a Trap

Gemma collects money out of parking meters. But really she's obsessed with Elvis.

Release Date2008-12-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Young Vic: Best of Enemies

1968 – a year of protest that divided America. As two men fight to become the next President, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F Buckley Jr., and the iconoclastic liberal Gore Vidal. Beliefs are challenged and slurs slung as these political idols feud nightly in a new television format, debating the moral landscape of a shattered nation.

Release Date2021-12-31

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Gypsy Boy

Adapted from Mikey Walsh's wildly engrossing hit memoir of growing up in England's Romany Gypsy community in the 1980s.

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

People You May Know

We gave up our privacy to fight Covid-19, can we get it back? An interrogation scene explored how Covid-19 has exposed the tension between the need for data to track and trace, and the right to privacy and justice.

Release Date2021-05-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

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