#139 Rose Cartwright: On Turning Her Book On OCD Into A TV Series

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 17 July 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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So excited to interview Rose, a writer & creative director and author of PURE.

This episode was recorded at the BFI Southbank for my live mini series there called From Book to Screen.

I first came across Rose’s work in 2014 when I pledged for the book on Unbound called PURE – about Pure ‘O’ a type of OCD – in Rose’s case she would get intrusive sexual thoughts.

Pure is the true story of her life with intrusive sexual thoughts – a rampant but little-known symptom of the disorder. It tracks her journey from when she was first seized by graphic mental images to her eventual recovery through therapy, acceptance and love.

At its core, Pure is about uncertainty and insecurity- it’s about finding beauty in greyness, and embracing the unfathomable weirdness of the human mind.

I wanted to ask her about the process of how her book PURE is being turned into a TV show as part of this mini series I'm doing called #FromBookToScreen. It is being adapted into Channel 4 adaptation of her memoir on the story of her life with intrusive sexual thoughts. It’s produced by Drama Republic (who have made Mad Fat Diary, The Honourable Woman, Doctor Foster) and adapted by the very talented Kirstie Swain) and airing on Channel 4 soon.

She has fingers in pies, currently writing a film for FKA Twigs. Past projects include the relaunch of Channel 4’s Random Acts; writing the world’s first OCD chatbot; and developing This Girl Can – Phenomenal Women. Rose used to publish under her mother’s maiden name, Bretécher. Hope you enjoy this episode!

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1:01.1	Thank you everyone for coming out on this sweaty London day which is the norm now apparently
1:06.7	So yes this is my podcast control-alt delete that I do live
1:11.2	Occasionally only because it's much nicer to do it with people.
1:15.0	Everyone can ask questions at the end and then it goes up on iTunes the next day
1:18.9	so if you're happy to be on the podcast then do ask the question at the end.
1:24.0	As Anna was saying, I'm really happy to be doing this at the BFI.
1:27.5	I wanted to do this series anyway on the podcast, interviewing amazing people about this process which seems a bit
1:33.8	smoke and mirrors a bit murky no one really knows sometimes what goes into it
1:38.6	but adapting words on a page to a small or big screen, especially books.
1:45.0	And I'm so excited to be joined by Rose Cartwright,
1:48.8	who I first kind of stumbled across in 2013, 14 when I pledged for pure on Unbound.
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