Jack Thorne
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629 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 18 Feb
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They are sensational and they do show every colour of these very, very complicated children.
Yeah.
The trailer got released yesterday and there's been all this sort of
people tweeting and retweeting this Tongan story.
Do you know this Tongan story?
That a group of Tongan boys ended up on an island, a desert island, and they actually lived very happily on that island.
And people are going, well, this could never happen.
Look, this happened here.
But actually that backs up what Golding's saying, because everything they do in this story is inflected with what they've been taught.
And this society of British boys have been brought up in such a way that when you talk about those little moments, the choices made in those little moments are full of the history of these boys.
And the way that they meet these moments is as a response to 11 years of learning.
And those Tongan boys, whatever they were going through, were able to live this harmonious existence.
But Golding recognized in that time, in that age of post-war, with populism still very much in ascendance, with hatred still very much visible around in our country, that they took
all that with them to the island and then this tragedy paid out in response to that and i think there's something about doing this show in this moment that's very interesting because of that because we are again in a moment it feels like where it's easier to hate than love it's easier to pull someone down than push them up and where populism is in a very very dangerous place
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yes.
Can I ask you, because another thing that's laid at Lord of the Flies is that it's a takedown of public schoolboys.
And I don't think it is.
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