James Graham on his "stripping vicar" ice-dancing routine

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  Welcome to Desert Island Discs Postcards.

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  I'm Lauren Laverne.

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  We've cast away thousands of people to our imaginary desert island, among them many writers.

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  Our postcard today comes from the playwright James Graham,

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  who recently adapted his acclaimed play Dear England into a hit TV drama.

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  When I spoke to James in 2024, he told me how finding a passion

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  for performance helped him come out of his shell as a young boy.

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  A TV family, we used to love sitting in front of the TV every evening,

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  dinner on our laps and watching dramas and soaps.

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  I loved soaps growing up.

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  What did you love about them?

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  What was the magic of it?

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  I guess if you're sort of a quieter, shy kid,

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  there's something about the scale of the drama of everyday life with people arguing in pubs or breaking up or...

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  Plane crashes in Emmerdale or murders in Coronation Street.

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  I guess just the escapism and the size of everyday life.

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  And hobbies were like a big thing and we were all given sort of instruments or I ended up going ice skating,

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  which was an unusual choice for a young boy in a tough mining town.

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  But for some reason, gliding around on the ice, I got really excited about it.

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  And actually it wasn't, technically I wasn't sort of doing the flips and the spins.

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