Lauren Laverne here.
We're taking our Easter break, so until we're back on air,
we're showcasing a few programmes from our archive for you.
As usual, the music's been shortened for rights reasons.
This week's guest is the screenwriter and playwright Jack Thorne, who created Adolescence.
I cast him away in 2021.
My castaway this week is the screenwriter and playwright Jack Thorne.
Millions of us watched his adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials on TV.
For the stage, he scripted Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,
a great critical and commercial success on both sides of the Atlantic.
Alongside these family-friendly hits,
his TV dramas often bring us face-to-face with life's grimmer, bleaker realities.
They include the acclaimed series This Is England and this year's Help,
set in a care home bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic.
As an aspiring dramatist, he was told that every writer has a myth,
a story they return to again and again.
It's tempting to speculate that his is about power,
what it means to have more of it than you can handle, what it means not to have enough.
Luckily,
he knows what he wants to do with the power he wields as a leading light in Britain's creative sector.