Background
Wadlow was born in Middlesbrough, England and attended Street Francis Primary School.
Wadlow was born in Middlesbrough, England and attended Street Francis Primary School.
When he was 10, his family moved to the Hemlington area of the town, and he attended Street George"s Catholic School.
At the age of 19, Wadlow began studying at the University of Leeds. At Leeds, Wadlow began writing with Peter Morgan. In 1984, he and Morgan wrote a play entitled Gross, based on his summer job in a call centre, which they took to the Edinburgh Festival.
Wadlow and Morgan accepted the job and wrote training films for many years.
Wadlow and Morgan returned to Edinburgh in 1986 with the play Pax Britannica. In 1988, Wadlow and Morgan wrote additional material for Ruth Prawer Jhabvala"s script for John Schlesinger"s film Madame Sousatzka.
Morgan recalled, "We were incredibly cheap and totally exploited for six months for about five grand". In 1990, Wadlow and Morgan co-wrote Dear Rosie, a short film directed by Peter Cattaneo.
The short was nominated in the Best Short category at the 44th British Academy Awards, and the Short (Live Action) category at the 63rd Academy Awards.
Wadlow joined the writing staff of the Independent Television television soap opera Coronation Street in 1993 and has since become a senior storyliner. Throughout the rest of the 1990s, he wrote episodes of the topical comedy series The House of Windsor (1994), the soap opera Castles (1995), the sitcom Holding the Baby (1997), and the World Cup-themed comedy series Lost in France (1998). In 2000, he wrote an episode of the Independent Television prison drama Bad Girls and in 2006 wrote an episode of the British Broadcasting Corporation series Robin Hood.
At Edinburgh, Wadlow and Morgan were approached by a member of staff from a company that made training videos, who asked them if they would like jobs writing training films. As a member of the Coronation Street writing team, Wadlow has been the recipient of two Writers" Guild of Great Britain awards (1993 and 2009).