James Graham: The playwright with the Midas touch

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

James Graham is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter for TV and film. His plays include Ink, This House and Dear England, about the struggles and successes of England’s former football manager Gareth Southgate. His acclaimed TV dramas include Quiz and Sherwood, set in the north Nottinghamshire village where he grew up.

James was born into the close-knit community of Kirkby-In-Ashfield and witnessed the deep and permanent divisions from the 1980s miners’ strikes. He wrote his first play whilst studying drama at the University of Hull and seeing his words come alive on stage inspired him to keep writing. He’s gone on to establish himself as one of the most influential playwrights of his generation, taking inspiration from moments in history that illuminate a particular social or political anxiety of the moment, and telling stories that help us make sense of the world.

His adaptation of Alan Bleasdale's TV drama, Boys From The Blackstuff, is currently playing at the West End's Garrick Theatre. Tickets are available at boysfromtheblackstuff.com

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0:05.0	Only got 32 minutes to go.
0:07.0	Comes every 30 minutes, you know.
0:08.0	So turn up your radio.
0:10.0	We'll turn the price way down low.
0:12.0	Fuck ahead and get a deal, yo.
0:14.0	Starts when my turner and you're good to go.
0:16.0	Nothing worse than traffic.
0:17.0	So slow.
0:18.0	Would it happen on a train?
0:19.0	Heck no.
0:20.0	32 minutes, t, t, t, t, t. Because it on a train? Heck no. 32 minutes, tut, tut, tut, no traffic,
0:22.1	because it's a train, tut, tut, tut, tut.
0:24.8	Lunar Airport Express, 32 minutes to goal.
0:32.1	This is a global player original podcast.
0:44.4	This is a global player original podcast. Global Player Original Podcast Hello and welcome to full disclosure.
0:48.7	A podcast project conceived entirely to let me spend more time than I'd ever get on the radio with interesting people.
0:50.8	This week's guest, the playwright and television writer James Graham, has actually been on the radio show, but not for an hour. We're not going to struggle to fill an hour,
0:59.0	even if we can find the conversation to your uvra, to your canon, but full disclosure usually
1:04.1	starts at the very beginning. And I was going to begin with a joke about the extraordinary
1:09.6	size of your output. For a man who's 10 years younger than me,
1:14.6	it's shame, but actually your relationship with work is not actually a laughing matter, is it?
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