RICHARD HARRIS was born in London. His stage plays include The Maintenance Man, The Dog It Was, Conscience Be Damned, Albert and Victoria, Local Affairs, Outside Edge (Evening Standard Award for 1979) and Stepping Out (Standard Drama Award for 1984). He co-created the BBC series Shoestring and his plays for television include Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am, You Must be Virginia, Saving It For Albie, When the Boys Come Out to Play, Sunday in Perspective, Occupier's Risk, Time and Mr Madingley, I Can See Your Lips Move, A Slight Formality, Jack's Trade and Dog Ends. Among his adaptations for television are Murder Most English, The Prince and the Pauper, Plain Murder and Sherlock Holmes. His radio play Was It Something I Said? was a winner of the Giles Cooper Radio Award. His more recent TV credits include A Touch of Frost (1992) and The Last Detective (2003), adapted from the Dangerous Davies novel by Leslie Thomas.