Readers respond to criticism levelled at Jack Thorne’s adaptation of William Golding’s book Darren Chetty suggests that diverse casting in Jack Thorne’s adaptation of Lord of the Flies has failed to ...

A trippy tale capturing the creative vision of writer Jack Thorne and director Marc Munden, as a British crew and young cast film this timely adaptation on the remote islands of Malaysia during ...

William Golding’s classic tale is about civilisation, ‘savagery’ and empire – can a colour-blind cast do that justice? Adolescence creator Jack Thorne’s new BBC series sees him return to the subject ...

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22:32, Sun, Feb 15, 2026 Updated: 22:37, Sun, Feb 15, 2026 A BBC drama left viewers noticeably shaken as the latest instalment proved to be the most gruesome and gory yet. On Sunday night (February 15 ...

Many of us haven’t read William Golding’s 1954 novel “Lord of the Flies” since school, and can only remember a few details – “the conch, the war paint, Piggy’s glasses”, said Anita Singh in The ...

When Judy Carver was a child, her schoolmaster father regularly sent off a parcel to London that always, to his dejection, came back. She eventually understood that it was a story called Strangers ...

As he stars as Jack in Lord of the Flies, this is just the start for Lox Pratt (Picture: BBC/Eleven/J Redza) When you tune into Lord of the Flies on the BBC, make sure you’re paying attention to ...

Reading Lord of the Flies while sweating it out over your GCSEs is haunting enough, so much so that the William Golding novel has become a shorthand for the tipping point between civilisation and ...

A schoolboy who stars in the BBC's hit Lord of the Flies series has said the young cast are "still good friends". A four-part adaptation of William Golding's story of British boys descending into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BBC's Lord of the Flies TV series was filmed on location to recreate the remoteness in the book. (BBC/Eleven/J Redza) In William ...

Lord Of The Flies fans have praised the BBC for 'producing a masterpiece' with 'absolutely impeccable acting' from its child stars. The highly anticipated series, which was adapted from William ...