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Graeme Harper (R) on location for The Seeds of Doom with director Douglas Camfield

Graeme Harper is a British television director.

He worked as a director for the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who on the serials The Caves of Androzani (1984) and Revelation of the Daleks (1985) and performed some production work on earlier Doctor Who episodes.

Harper's later work includes episodes of Star Cops (1987), The New Statesman (1987), The House of Eliott (1991), Babes in the Wood (1998), The Bill and Casualty.

The official BBC Doctor Who website reports that Harper will make a return to directing Doctor Who in the 2006 series [1]. These six episodes (three two-part stories) include Rise of the Cybermen, The Satan Pit, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday.

Graeme Harper is also the name of a fiction writer, scriptwriter and critic, who writes under his own name and under the pseudonym Brooke Biaz.

He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing and co-editor (with O.Evans) of the journal Studies in European Cinema. His works include Small Maps of the World (Parlor, 2005), Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine (Wallflower, 2005), with A.Moor; Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism (Continuum, 2002) and Black Cat, Green Field (Transworld), among many others. As Professor Graeme Harper BA MLitt DCA PhD FRGS, he is Head of the School of Creative Arts, Film and Media at the University of Portsmouth (UK).