Olivia Broadfield
British singer-songwriter Olivia Broadfield has spent the last 15 years honing her craft of writing for television. One of her most recent career-defining moments was being asked by Sister Pictures (Chernobyl, Landscapers) to write the series 2 soundtrack for BBC One’s legal drama The Split in 2020. She was then invited back to compose music for series 3 in 2022.
Written by Emmy award-winner Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady, The Hour), The Split starred Nicola Walker and Stephen Mangan and the second series was streamed over 19 million times, becoming the third most watched drama series on BBC iPlayer in 2020. Olivia contributed 13 original songs across series 2 and series 3, including “Faultline”, which closed the show’s finale and was subsequently played on BBC Radio 2 by Claudia Winkleman, Edith Bowman and Dermot O’Leary. The album compiling all of Olivia’s music from the third series reached #2 on the iTunes charts in April 2022.
2024 sees Olivia share a euphoric electronic rework of “Faultline” ahead of the highly anticipated two-part special of The Split. She is also set to release ‘The Split: Barcelona EP’, which includes four brand-new songs, via Townsend Music on 29th December, in conjunction with the show that airs on BBC iPlayer and BBC One on 29th and 30th December.
Asha Banks’ single “Feel The Rush”, co-written by Olivia Broadfield, featured in the end credits of My Fault: London, which was the top Amazon Prime movie in the world upon release and stars Asha in the lead role. For the week of 7th-14th March 2025, the song was Radio 1’s BBC Introducing single of the week and was included on Asha’s debut EP Untie My Tongue, released on 7th March.
Olivia has also written with other artists, which resulted in the 2015 collaboration “Bird” with Billie Marten. Marten’s recording was heralded as Radio 1’s Hottest Record in the World and Jo Whiley’s New Favourite Thing. The song was also placed in Netflix’s Virgin River and famed supernatural teen drama The Vampire Diaries.
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