Wingfield, R.D.

His full name was Rodney David Wingfield, an English author and dramatist, born in Hackney in London. He was educated at Cooper’s Company School in London, but spent a long time in Somerset, as the school’s pupils were evacuated to Frome during the Second World War. He was exempted from National Service primarily on account of his poor eyesight. Instead, after the war he had various jobs, mainly as an office worker, while in his free-time starting to write play scripts. Between 1968 and 1987, he wrote a lot of such scripts for various TV and radio series, mainly for the BBC, as well as a couple of novels. In 1970, he became a full-time writer.