Rob Gittins

Who is Rob Gittins?

Rob Gittins is a British television and radio writer.

He has written for a large number of successful programmes including EastEnders, Casualty, The Bill, Emmerdale The Story Of Tracy Beaker, and Family Affairs, and has written over one hundred episodes of The Archers and over 1000 episodes of Welsh soap opera Pobol y Cwm.

His work on Heartbeat, Casualty and The Bill won him a Writers Guild Award and he was a part of the BAFTA award winning EastEnders writing team in 2000.

He has written for EastEnders since April 1986, after the producer of EastEnders had listened to a radio play of his and contacted him. As of 2013, he is the longest-serving writer for the soap.

He co-created and wrote the BBC 1 drama series Tiger Bay which transmitted in 1997 and his drama series for ITV, In The Company of Strangers, transmitted in 1999.

His radio production Losing Paradise, a six-part thriller co-produced by the BBC, ABC in Australia and CBC in Canada won the 1997 Gold Drama Award at the New York International Radio Festival. His latest radio play, Investigating Mr Thomas - his twentieth for BBC Radio - transmitted in March 2008.

He was Executive Producer and joint lead writer on Crash, a drama series for BBC Wales from Tony Jordan's Red Planet Pictures.