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Screenwriter
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Alison Hume is a British Labour Party politician and television writer who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Scarborough and Whitby since 2024. In television she is known for her work as creator and executive producer of the CBBC series The Sparticle Mystery and the BBC drama Rocket Man.
Hume was born in Hull and grew up in Essex, with her father, an accountant, being originally from York.[1][2] She moved back to Yorkshire with her parents, when they retired, moving to Poppleton.[2]
Hume attended the Northern Film School and trained on a Carlton new writers' course.[3] She worked as a television and film screenwriter, writing among others, the 2003 feature film Pure,[4] the 2005 TV movie Beaten.[5] She had her own production company, through which produced the CBBC shows Summerhill The Sparticle Mystery, both of which she wrote.[6][7]
Following her second son being born with a rare chromosomal disorder, Hume became a disability rights campaigner, eventually co founding York Accessibility Action. It was through her activism that she entered formal politics.[2][8] At the 2019 European Parliament election, Hume stood as a candidate for the Labour Party in the Yorkshire and the Humber constituency.[9][10] In 2019 she unsuccessfully stood to be the Labour candidate for Rother Valley[11] Hume was also a candidate in the 2021 election for the North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner.[12] In 2023, she was selected as the Labour Party candidate for Scarborough and Whitby at the 2024 general election, a contest that she won with a majority of over 5,000.[13][14]
Production
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Broadcaster
Pure
Feature film (2002)
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2 episodes (2002–2003)
"Home Truths" (2004)
Beaten
TV movie (2005)
3 episodes (2005)
2 episodes (2007)
TV movie (2008)
36 episodes (2011–2015)
1 episode (2019)
1 episode (2019)
2 episodes (2020)
Year
Award
Category
Recipients
Result
2008
Children's: Drama
Alison Hume (with Stephen Smallwood and Jon East), for Summerhill
Nominated
Children's: Writer
Alison Hume, for Summerhill
Won
Writer of the Year
Alison Hume, for Summerhill
Won
2015
Writer – Drama
Alison Hume, for The Sparticle Mystery
Nominated
Member of Parliament
for Scarborough and Whitby
2024–present
Incumbent
North East England
North West England
Yorkshire and the Humber
East Midlands
West Midlands
East of England
London
South East England
South West England
Wales
Scotland
