Hello, I'm Gilbert Cruz editor of the New York Times Book Review, and this is the book review podcast.

Books and movies have always worked hand in hand, and some of the best films of all time have been based on bestsellers or works of high literature i've personally always been interested in the process of adaptation and today we have the third in our series of conversations with directors and screenwriters behind this year's Oscar-nominated films

that started as books.

And so today I'm here with Peter Strawn.

Peter has become a pro at adapting works for the big and small screens.

He co-wrote the 2011 feature film adaptation of Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy.

There is a mole.

The classic John Lecqueray spy novel.

He's been there for years.

A screenplay that earned an Oscar nomination.

Following that, he took the first two books in Hillary Mantell's Wolf Hall trilogy.

King wants a son.

Eighteen years of marriage with no air.

About Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII.

Now, he's decided some sin must have been committed to cause this curse.

And miraculously adapted them into a six-episode TV series.

And now his latest.

Conflave, a thriller about the machinations at the Vatican.

The Pope is dead.

To elect a new Pope...

The Conclave begins now.

Based on the novel by Robert Harris.

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