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Having at one time thought he would go into politics, acting or directing, Thorne developed a love for writing plays at university, and started his screenwriting career writing episodes of Channel 4 shows Skins and Shameless.
Since then, he has created series including The Fades, National Treasure, Best Interests, Toxic Town and The Hack, while also adapting Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials for the BBC - and that's just scratching the surface of his TV work.
Perhaps his biggest triumph to date has been Adolescence, the four-part Netflix drama that arrived in 2025 and became a global phenomenon that seized the cultural zeitgeist, winning countless awards and even being discussed in parliament.
Now, he brings us a new four-part adaptation of Lord of the Flies for the BBC, one which faithfully sticks to William Golding's tale of a group of boys who find themselves stranded on a tropical island without any adult supervision, following a plane crash.
Thorne teases that what Munden has created is "as if Terrence Malick has directed a TV show", adding: "I hope people realise that this show is more Marc than it is me, that his authorship is all over this like a stick of rock".
He also did reveal some of his favourite scenes that he's ever written, and identified the "finest moment" of his career - believe us, it's a doozy.
In the meantime, you can also catch up with our previous chats with Mark Gatiss, Harry and Jack Williams, Noah Hawley, Neil Cross, Steven Knight and Chris Chibnall.
Jack Thorne on the challenging development of Adolescence and how long he's been thinking about Lord of the Flies
Jack Thorne: "Never with episode 1. Not really with episode 3 or 4. With episode 2, there were times when I thought maybe we'd chosen the wrong angle on it, and maybe I’d chosen the wrong angle on it. And maybe I'd not given something that people could work with. Particularly because we were working in a fixed space.
"And I remember sitting with Phil [Barantini, director] and just going, ‘We've got a story problem’. And three things really saved us. The first is Ashley Walters, who I think is - even though he's got nominated for loads of awards - an unsung hero of Adolescence. I think that episode relies on his face, and he is magnificent in carrying us through it and carrying us through the complication of it all.
"So this is the final week of working on this episode. We had a week or rehearsal, a week of tech, and then week of shooting. And because Stephen was there anyway, as an exec producer, everyone got to work. And Matt not only had to make a camera fly, he had to land the camera, which was a completely different technical operation. He worked out how to do that.
"Along with a whole ream of magnificent performances, not least the amazing young actors that we had in the show. I mean, Fatima, who played Jade, I wish we'd given her more to do, actually, because I think she could have carried far more than we gave her."
JT: "I love Stephen Graham, but sometimes… What I can tell you is, we don't know what that is so. So, maybe. When he said it, I think he said ‘the dark recesses of our brains’. Yeah, but they are still in the dark recesses of our brains. There is no story where they're like, ‘Oh yeah’.
JH: "Now, if we turn to Lord of the Flies, your new project - how long have you been thinking about adapting this?"
JH: "And have you always had a sense of what you would want to do with the story?"
"And I think I said to him there, 'I'd do it like a relay race'. So that's always sort of been in my head as a way of doing it. I thought the book could and would and should break down in those four parts.
"And having an episode - particularly episode 2, which is the one we focus on Jack - having an episode in which you step into Jack's shoes... I'm not saying you understand his perspective or you feel empathy for him, though I do think you feel both those things, but you do reach an understanding of his logic.
"So, I felt like that's what TV could do with this story and and I'm really pleased that we've been able to tell it that way. And I'm so proud of the young actors. It is a show that's told in silence more than words, and that's because of the enormity of their performances."
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