Alan founded the independent TV production company Wark Clements with his wife, the presenter Kirsty Wark. Before its sale to RDF Media the company produced many high-profile and successful television programmes, including a ten-part adaptation for Channel 4 of THE FIRST WORLD WAR by Hew Strachan (qv).

Alan is now turning his hand to fiction, and working on a high-concept thriller. He lives in Glasgow.