Career
Wolstencroft won the Royal Television Society's Network Newcomer award after producing his first drama, Psychos, for Channel 4 in 1999. He then began working on Spooks. The pilot episode went through about 30 different rewrites and plot changes before BBC finally accepted it. The episode met with promising reviews and a series was commissioned. Since then, it has won a slew of BAFTA awards and nominations.
More recently, he wrote the screenplay for the film Shooting Dogs. He is also the author of two novels- Good News, Bad News and Contact Zero. Both are of the espionage/spy genre involving the British intelligence services. He was once in the noted Fairmilehead band "Aeneas Shock" as a keyboard player.
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