Neil Arksey is the author of a number of books for children, teenagers and young adults, published by Penguin and Random House. Early in his career he helped develop Little Robots

Little Robots

Little Robots is a stop-motion animated children's TV series, produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Create TV and Film Limited and broadcast on CBeebies . The fiction series was based on the eponymous book by Mike Brownlow, published by Ragged Bears Publishing...

, a pre-school TV show broadcast on BBC

BBC

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 in the UK. He went on to write scripts for Little Robots as well as a number of other shows aimed at the same age-group including Kipper the Dog

Kipper the Dog

Kipper the Dog is a character in a series of books for preschool age children by a British writer, Mick Inkpen. The books consist of 34 titles which have sold over 8 million copies and have been translated into over 20 languages. The books have also won many awards.Kipper is also the name of a...

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As a story editor, script editor, head writer and producer Neil has worked on a number of UK soaps and drama series Crossroads (TV series), River City

River City

River City is a Scottish television soap opera, first broadcast in Scotland on BBC Scotland on 24 September 2002. River City storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional district of Shieldinch in Glasgow...

, Family Affairs

Family Affairs

Family Affairs was a British soap opera broadcast on Five, from 1997 to 2005. It was the second programme to be broadcast on the channel on 30 March 1997, the channel's launch night...

 and Mile High

Mile High

Mile High is a British television drama based on the lives of the cabin crew members of "fresh!", a budget airline based in London. The name of the show comes from the "Mile High Club". The show was broadcast on Sky1 from 2003 to 2005.-Background:...

. He has also worked as head writer/producer on TV drama series in other European countries including Salatut Elämät

Salatut Elämät

Salatut elämät is a Finnish 30-minute long soap opera broadcast on MTV3. It was the first Finnish daily soap opera. Its first episode aired on January 25, 1999...

 in Finland

Finland

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 and Jobán Rosszban in Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

. More recently he has been working as a producer on the feature film Run To Ground, a dark psychological thriller.

Books

• Brooksie
• Result!
• Flint
• MacB
• Playing On The Edge (shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards
  Blue Peter Book Awards
  The Blue Peter Book Awards are a series of literary prizes for children's literature awarded annually by the BBC television programme Blue Peter, and inaugurated in 2000....
  
  2001)
• Sudden Death
• As Good As Dead In Downtown

External links

• Neil Arksey's Official Website