---
name: "Barbara Machin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/barbara-machin"
fi1m_id: "barbara-machin"
tmdb_id: 1747222
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T11:35:10.970056+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Barbara Machin

## Identity

Barbara Machin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/barbara-machin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** barbara-machin
- **TMDB ID:** 1747222
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1747222

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1747222

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Casualty*](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md) (68)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Barbara Machin is a British screenwriter and showrunner. She has written multiple episodes of the long-running BBC medical drama *Casualty* (1986), including a feature-length special for which she won a BAFTA award.

She created, wrote and served as showrunner on the BBC crime series *Waking the Dead* (2000–2011), which ran for ten years and won an International Emmy for Best Drama Series in 2007. Other credits include the television films *Kiss of Death* (2008) and *Carla* (2003), and the 2019 adaptation *The Small Hand (Ghost Story)*. She specialises in medical and crime drama and has contributed over 200 hours of transmitted television.

*Sources: imdb.com, casarotto.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Casualty* (1986), Fi1m 68, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Susan Hill's Ghost Story* (2019), Writer
- *Kiss of Death* (2008), Screenplay
- *Carla* (2003), Writer
- *An Unsuitable Job for a Woman* (1997), series, Writer
- *The Investigator* (1997), Writer
- *Devil's Advocate* (1995), series, Writer
- *South of the Border* (1988), series, Writer
- *Casualty* (1986), series, Writer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/barbara-machin