Jack Thorne praises ‘remarkable’ journalists who exposed phone hacking

Author Jack Thorne praised the “extraordinary” journalists in front of a new scandal -related TV series, which revealed the use of telephone hacking in some parts of the media.

The Hack, the next drama of ITV, plays David Tennant’s news of the world on Sunday as Nick Davies, the protector of the investigator who reveals the scope of hacked in Tableid.

Thorne, who also writes Netflix’s Hit Adolescent Age,, BBC Radio 4s today: “I thought I knew this as a story, I thought it was a story about journalists’ bad, I thought the story started and ended.

“But actually … You see that there is much more than that. A really disturbing relationship between the press, politics and the police. And what we’re trying to do in this show is to reveal the details of it.”

World news in 2011, journalists in journalists hacked the phone of public figures to get special stories.

Davies has published several stories about telephone hacking throughout the scandal, but public anger reached a new level while killed and attacked by female student Mill Dowler’s voice messages, and gave the wrong hopes to his family that he was still alive.

Thorne cooperated with the same team that made the post office against Mr. Bates for the Dramatination of the scandal.

“I think this and Mr. Bates, I think that the difference between Mr. Bates is really fascinating, that Mr. Bates is the fact that journalism cannot be purchased on this issue,” Thorne said. He said.

The computer is covered with a few journalists working for sales points, including a weekly, private eye and BBC Post Office Ufuk BT scandal, However, after the story of the Dramatation of ITV was published in January 2024, the public was cut much larger.

“There were bright journalists who did incredible in the post office case, Thor Thorne said,” But in this case, this is a celebration of brilliant journalists who really managed to take into account their own industries.

“And I thought a lot about it when I was working on it,” he continued. “I think I’m instinctively cowardly when it comes to looking at problems and calling things in my own sector.

“The brightness of these people [the journalists who exposed phone hacking]… Looking at what happened in the field of media and harming that sector is quite remarkable. “

Hack describes the story from two different perspectives – Davies, as the journalist reported and investigating the murder of special researcher Daniel Morgan Dave Cook (revived by Robert Carlyle).

Tennant is one of more than 1,600 vowels and other public figures be out of court News Group newspapers, publishers of world news, telephone hacking scandal.

The launch of Hack, after the adolescence of a drama of Thorne’s TV series, dominated the Emmy Awards at the beginning of this month.

The series, which was created by actor Stephen Graham, told the story of a school child accused of killing a female classmate named Jamie Miller and investigated the effect of smartphones and social media on young people.

When asked if there was a follow -up, Thorne said, “It is definitely not a sequel, I think we told the story of Miller as much as possible.

“We can, we try, Stephen [Graham] And I try to write something that uses the same techniques, to write something working with the same person, to shed light on a different aspect of our society. “

Hack starts on Wednesday, September 24 at ITV1 and ITVX at 21:00 BST