Jack Thorne

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629 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 18 Feb

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But I tell you what I'm slightly sad about is that my son is not quite growing up in the same household.

When I was a kid, the only topic of conversation at every dinner and lunch and breakfast was the world.

And was like, this is wrong.

This is wrong.

Oh, this is right.

This is exciting.

You know, literally studying the newspaper or listening to the radio or doing all those kinds of things.

And I have not created a similar sort of place for Elliot because I don't quite have...

my parents' self-belief, I think.

My dad, when he was in his 70s, he was a volunteer at the Citizens Advice Bureau when he retired.

And he stopped because he was old and a bit tired.

And he was just like, you know what, I'll leave this to the next generation.

And then six months later, he went back to volunteering again because he said,

I can't read the paper if I'm not trying to change the world.

And my dad sincerely believes that.

Wow, that's amazing.

Because I'm more timid than he is, and I'm more timid than my mum is.

I don't quite have that in me.

And so I don't think that Elliot's been exposed to things in the same way that I was exposed to things.

He's been exposed to different things, but I am slightly sad that I haven't given him the same sort of grounding in

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