His early scripts generally explored concepts of religion and sexuality among various backdrops: Revelations was a soap opera about organised religion and featured a lesbian vicar Springhill was a soap drama about a Catholic family in contemporary Liverpool The Grand explored society's opinion of subjects such as prostitution, abortion and homosexuality during the interwar period and Queer as Folk recreated his experiences in the Manchester gay scene.
He eventually left the BBC for Granada Television, and in 1994 began writing adult television drama. After graduating from Oxford University, he joined the BBC's children's department, CBBC, in 1985 on a part-time basis and held various positions, which included creating two series, Dark Season and Century Falls. Stephen Russell Davies OBE (born 27 April 1963), better known as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer whose works include Queer as Folk, The Second Coming, Casanova, the 2005 revival of the BBC One science fiction franchise Doctor Who, Cucumber, A Very English Scandal, Years and Years and It's a Sin.īorn in Swansea, Davies had aspirations as a comic artist before focusing on being a playwright and screenwriter.
