[6] Yorke wrote Into the Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them (2014), a screenwriting guide that proposes a five act structure to film and television narrative.

", Ethel Skinner's assisted death, Jim Branning and Dot Cotton's marriage, abusive Trevor Morgan, and Kat Slater's revelation to her daughter Zoe that she was her mother.

[citation needed] In 2010, Yorke's job title was changed to that of Controller Continuing Drama Production Studios.

He was the executive producer of the Internet spin-off EastEnders: E20 and BBC daytime drama, Land Girls.

[14] In March 2012, Yorke became acting editor of radio soap The Archers while Vanessa Whitburn took long service leave.

[19] Briefed to find a new returning pre-watershed drama, Yorke approached Shed Productions – makers of Bad Girls and Footballers Wives who had never before had a show on the BBC.

[20] During conversations Yorke hit on the idea of a School Precinct and Anne McManus and Maureen Chadwick wrote a pilot episode.

[27] Although Yorke redeveloped the original script over 18 months so it became less violent and with a greater emphasis on 'story of the week', it was ultimately turned down by director of programmes Kevin Lygo.