Ken Blakeson was born in Yorkshire. He has worked as a farm labourer, milkman, insurance clerk, teacher, radio presenter, disc jockey and producer and has been a full time writer since 1981.

He has just finished two films for YTV entitled "Indian Summer" and is a regular member of the "Coronation Street" writing team which has just won the RTS soap award and the BAFTA.

Past television successes were a comedy film, The Bare Necessities for Granada Television, and two Ruth Rendell Mystery films, adapted for Blue Heaven Productions.

The third series of his highly successful drama series for television, "September Song", produced by Granada and starring the late Michael Williams and Russ Abbot, was screened in 1995 and was nominated for the Writers Guild Award for Best Television Series 1993.

September Song was originally written and broadcast as a radio series on Radio 4.

Ken has been a regular member of Granada TV's team of Coronation Street writers for fourteen years and as part of that team, won the Writer's Guild Award for Best Television series in 1992 and 1993.

Before that he wrote over 90 episodes of Emmerdale Farm while writing and contributing to many television series. He has penned in excess of thirty plays for radio including his controversial play about army wives, "Excess Baggage" broadcast in 1988, which became the focal point of much debate within the BBC and press when it was denied its customary repeat. It went on to win the 1989 Society of Authors/Sony Award for Best Original Script and a 1989 Giles Cooper Award.

His first stage commission, "Homeland", directed by Anthony Clark, opened at the Contact Theatre Manchester and subsequently won the Manchester Evening News Best New Play Award for 1989. His second, "True Brit" was staged at Birmingham Rep and directed by Anthony Clark

His last radio play "Lost for Words", commissioned by BBC World Service and subsequently repeated on Radio 4, won the Bronze Medal at the New York Radio Festival and went on to win the Radio Times Comedy and Drama Awards, Play of the Year. It was nominated for the Society of Authors/Sony Award for Best Original Script, receiving the Bronze Award.