In 2001 Roy Apps was awarded a personal BAFTA for outstanding contributions to children's film and television.
[1] For 10 years he wrote for the award-winning CBBC series Byker Grove where his first job was to write out the show's leading characters "PJ and Duncan" played by Ant and Dec.[2] He co-devised and wrote for the award-winning series The Ghost Hunter and has contributed to many other TV series, including Chucklevision, Barmy Aunt Boomerang, Stacey Stone and Casper's Scare School.
[3] In 2019 his black comedy Dr Bodkin's Needle, featuring Celia Imrie, was produced by Pier Productions for BBC 1.
He has written over a hundred scripts for BBC radio, including Hopping Down in Kent and a dramatisation of Raymond Briggs' Fungus the Bogeyman, both of which won Sony Awards.
His most recent radio work includes The Saving of Albert Perks [for Bernard Cribbins] and the five part serial Miss Bessemer Saves the Train [for Dame Penelope Keith] both produced for BBC Radio 4 by Pier Productions.