Stephen Butchard is a British screenwriter and television producer, best known for adapting Bernard Cornwell's The Saxon Stories into the BBC/Netflix drama series The Last Kingdom.
In 1997, he won the Dennis Potter Award for '‘Soft Sand, Blue Sea’', which secured him representation.
In 2010, BBC One would broadcast his mini-series Five Daughters, starring Ian Hart and Sarah Lancashire.
"Our hope is that this drama provides a glimpse of the real girls their families knew, and also leads to further debate on the impact of drugs and sex industries upon every town, every city in this country... and what action is, or isn't, being taken.
[8] In 2023, Butchard adapted The Good Mothers, a non-fiction book by British author Alex Perry on the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia, into a television series for Disney+.