As his new version of Lord of the Flies comes to the BBC, we count down the 20 boldest and most moving productions by the quintuple Bafta-winning scriptwriter He has been hailed as the hardest-working ...

Here are some TV highlights coming up over the next week from Saturday, February 7, including Jack Thorne's treatment of Lord of the Flies and Mackenzie Crook's new show Small Prophets. Did you know ...

A star rating of 4 out of 5. If I say Lord of the Flies, most of you will think of school. I certainly do. The book is a staple on the English Literature GCSE syllabus, meaning many find their first ...

At 5pm on 26 January 1926, John Logie Baird showcased the first ever working television set in London. A room full of scientists from the Royal Institution and one reporter from The Times newspaper ...

Boys will be boys is – very broadly – the message of William Golding’s 1954 novel, Lord of the Flies, his hauntingly bleak story of wild boys marooned on a desert island. Or perhaps it is men will be ...

Screenwriter Jack Thorne has said his upcoming adaptation of Lord Of The Flies will try to understand the male condition, and has revealed that each episode of the new four-part series will focus on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Screenwriter Jack Thorne has said his upcoming adaptation of Lord Of The Flies will try to understand the male condition, and has ...

Thorne has reimagined William Golding’s 1954 literary classic. Screenwriter Jack Thorne has said his upcoming adaptation of Lord Of The Flies will try to understand the male condition, and has ...

David McKenna (left) stars as Piggy and Lox Pratt (right) as Jack in the new adaptation of William Golding's 1954 classic Lord of the Flies Jack Thorne first read Lord of the Flies as a child. He didn ...

Jack Thorne first read Lord of the Flies as a child. He didn't study it in school but received a copy from his mum who was a substitute English teacher. The novel was stamped on the inside: Portway ...