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 ...

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 ...

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. Rick Astley: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Only a select few are brave enough to make the bold cross-city switch in Hull, but Jack Charles admits the opportunity to be part of Willie Peters’ Hull KR revolution was a major factor in his ...

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 ...

Adolescence writer Jack Thorne has created an upcoming Lord Of The Flies TV adaptation (Jordan Pettitt/PA) Screenwriter Jack Thorne has said his upcoming adaptation of Lord Of The Flies will try to ...

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 ...

During the summer of 2024, Jack Thorne was commuting between the sets of two drama series he had written – one on a tropical island off Malaysia and one in Yorkshire. At the risk of upsetting one ...