Jack Thorne
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 18 Feb
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And every now and again, I try and talk to him about democracy or I try and talk to him about what's going on in America.
But I don't think I've quite created a feeble enough environment for him.
I think it would be quite amazing if the thing that Elliot took from his childhood is that he should be more like Grandad Mike.
But maybe my dad is quite a fierce granddad as well as was quite a fierce dad.
So the grandkids love him dearly, but they're all a tiny bit afraid of him.
So I don't think necessarily that's where he'll go.
He'll probably be more like my mother-in-law, Sandy, who's just the most laid back, lovely person you can possibly imagine.
Not that my dad isn't lovely.
I love my dad very, very much.
No, no, it wasn't enough in the first week, but I'd love it if it was in the first week.
listen it took us all by surprise it was the shock of our lives and you know the shocking thing was was not the sort of like it doing well in this country that was lovely but we thought we made something powerful that people would like the shocking thing was was when we were number one in Saudi Arabia for three weeks because what they were able to take from and this is the thing that TV is full of TV is full of
people thinking that the only thing that international audiences can understand from our culture is a rich guy on a horse or a detective looking a bit sad.
And actually that thing of going, because I was told again and again and again about shows that I was trying to sell that I'd made in other countries.
No, the accents are too strong.
The issues are too British.
This is too much about looking in and people want to understand it.
Whereas I think what Netflix are doing
not with adolescence, but with Baby Reindeer, with Squid Game, with shows like that, is if you are specific and people understand your specificity, then they will like it wherever they are in the world and they will get what you're trying to do.
And that was the amazing thing, that someone in Saudi Arabia understood what a kid from Pontefract was going through.
I love him.
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