Lord of the Flies
9pm, BBC One
Remarkably, this is the first TV adaptation of William Golding’s classic novel. Who better to handle such responsibility than Jack Thorne? He takes a faithful approach to the story in an epic four-parter, which has the support of Golding’s family. It follows a group of schoolboys who, while fleeing from a war during the 1950s, have crash-landed on a Pacific island.
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