2025-03-07
37 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Mia Sorrenti.
For this episode, we're rejoining for part two of our conversation with Douglas Stewart,
the Booker Prize winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo.
If you haven't heard part one, do just jump back an episode to get up to speed.
Now it's time to rejoin the conversation recorded recently at the Kiln Theatre in London.
Here's our host for the evening, journalist and broadcaster Jenny Kleeman.
Do you think that your book will be changed forever by the fact that it's been manifested on screen?
Because people who come to it because of having seen it will be seeing it in their heads
like they saw it on screen.
Yeah,
I think the death threats that I thought I avoided from Glasgow I'll probably get once it's suddenly on the telly.
But, yeah, I mean, you worry about disappointing people.
You sort of live in real anxiety and you don't want to spoil something either.
But it was such a personal story that I almost couldn't give it to someone else to adap,
because that just allowed another chance for it to get further from the source material.
And to be really honest, when you do an adaptation,
most of what you're doing is defending and you're just saying, no, this is important and this is how it is.
And this makes sense to me and to the characters.
I remember spending a lot of time explaining the women in the high rise and how they spoke to each other was actually with great affection