About this episode

Jack Thorne discusses his work on 'Adolescence' and the adaptation of 'Lord of the Flies', along with his personal experience with autism and recent media industry changes.

This week, Kim Masters talks to Jack Thorne, who won all the prizes for writing the Netflix series  Adolescence , about his new series, an adaptation of the novel Lord of the Flies . They also discuss how Adolescence revealed Netflix’s stunning global reach, and why series star Stephen Graham has a co-writing credit, even though Graham doesn’t actually write. Thorne also tells Kim about being diagnosed as autistic in his mid-40s. Plus, Kim and Matt Belloni discuss the major shakeup at CBS’ 60 Minutes . Bari Weiss, the controversial head of the network’s news division, fired two correspondents and other staff, and hired someone with no broadcast news experience to run the vaunted show.

People in this episode

Host: Kim Masters

Guest: Jack Thorne

Topics covered

• autism
• television writing
• adaptation
• media industry
• Netflix
• CBS news

Keywords

• Jack Thorne
• Adolescence
• Lord of the Flies
• autism
• Netflix
• CBS
• Stephen Graham
• Bari Weiss

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Netflix, CBS

Books & works: Adolescence, Lord of the Flies

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