New Writing North

We were thrilled to welcome screenwriter and film director Peter Straughan to the festival to talk about the challenges and rewards of adapting well-known novels into film and television scripts. Here, Peter discusses the work involved in taking on the adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall for BBC television and his BAFTA-winning and Academy Award-nominated work adapting John le Carre’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.