Jack Thorne
speaker
629 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 18 Feb
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This project started with a conversation in Joel Wilson.
Joel Wilson, who's the exec producer of this project and whose company made it,
I was in his house having Sunday lunch.
He's a mate of mine.
And he said, go on, what's the one book you've always wanted to do?
And I said, Lord of the Flies.
And I'd tried to do it previously when I was in my early 30s and just been rebuffed by the estate.
But it's a book that I've...
that I remember reading very clearly for the first time.
And then I remember rereading, and it's just one that I've revisited over and over again.
I think it's extraordinary.
And I think it's used as shorthand in the worst ways.
It's used as shorthand to express moments which are all about simplicity.
And actually, I think Lord of the Flies is an incredibly complex and interesting book where he cares about all those characters.
He cares about Jack.
You know, Golding really does care about Jack, and he presents a 3D portrait of Jack.
Roger, I think, is probably lost to the waves, but he's trying to express something about society that's complicated, and people use it to express something quite simple about society, about hate.
And actually, he's showing all sides of hate.
So, yes, I think it's brilliant.
Well, if you read the book, and hopefully we brought it out in the show,
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