When: Friday June 7th, doors open 8.15am, Speaker at 9am

Where: Phoenix Artists Club
How Much: £15 plus VAT

John Yorke has spent a lifetime telling stories and helping writers tell theirs. For many years he's been responsible for a vast array of British drama; as both Head of Channel Four Drama and Controller of BBC Drama Production, he's worked on big popular works such as Life On Mars, Shameless, Hustle, and Spooks, alongside award-winners such as Bodies, Omagh, Sex Traffic, Not Only But Always and The Curse of Steptoe. He founded and for eight years ran the BBC Writers Academy training a generation of successful writers, and now as MD of Company Pictures, he oversees a range of great British Television  - from the upcoming Wolf Hall to Beaver Falls.

John is bringing his experience of developing great drama and working with great writers to the Breakfast Club on 7th June 2013. His talk, “The Curse of the Screenwriting Gurus” is not so much an attack as a plea for the serious study and appreciation of narrative structure – a study inhibited by the glib strictures of the “how to” manual. Touching on what stories are, where they come from, and how they resonate, John’s talk will explore both the history of the study of structure, and just why you don’t need to be able to study it to write it.

The Breakfast Club is monthly initiative to connect creative and business professionals in film and TV. We do this by creating a safe place to network whilst listening to thought leaders, industry gurus and entrepreneurs.

...and write, produce, direct, act, compose, design or even do the accounts and legal, you would be welcomed both by our amazing team, as well as our delegates eager to connect with you.

...with the guest speaker presenting around 9am. This means by 10am, you can head out to work, or you can hang out and network through the morning. The best of both worlds.