273: Heartstopper creator Alice Oseman
Homo Sapiens
Christopher Sweeney
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
*WARNING* This episode contains spoilers for Heartstopper Volume 5.
Did Alice set out for Heartstopper to be a happy love story? Will Volume 6 really be the last instalment in the series? These are all burning questions we couldn't wait to ask Alice Oseman, the brains behind graphic novel series Heartstopper. The books are a worldwide phenomenon as well as a smash-hit Netflix series, and the latest instalment is no different.
Alice tells us all about Volume 5 and the importance of themes within it and also discusses channeling personal experiences while writing about asexuality. Do you want a Heartstopper read along when the long awaited final instalment Volume 6 comes out?! Let us know!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody welcome to homo sapiens how are we all have you taken a seat |
| 0:09.6 | have you poured a cup of tea have you done any the things you need to? We have got such a special episode for you today because I'm not sitting here alone. I'm sitting next to the incredible Alice Osmond on Zoom, I should say. |
| 0:22.6 | Hello Alice, how are you? |
| 0:24.0 | Hello, I'm good, thank you, yeah. |
| 0:25.9 | Thank you so much for joining us today. |
| 0:28.0 | Alice is, for anyone who's been living under a big straight rock, is the brains behind the graphic novel series |
| 0:34.8 | Heartstopper and many other gorgeous books that have devoured and has recently |
| 0:39.3 | just released volume five of the series and it's literally pointless me making that |
| 0:43.7 | intro because I dread to think what your inbox is like Alice but all I get in my |
| 0:48.6 | inbox is things about Hartstopper but Alice you, Hartstopper was also turned into a massive |
| 0:54.2 | Netflix show which Alice wrote and exact produces and does everything down to every corner of, you know, |
| 1:01.5 | the nail polish. It is Alice's show along with an incredible team of people, |
| 1:06.3 | but the third series is now in production with my wonderful friend Pat Walter and many other incredible people and we'll get into that because it's like a locked box isn't it? |
| 1:19.1 | There's nothing can be said you've been briefed. Before we get into all of that, it's |
| 1:25.0 | LGBTQ plus History Month and we released our special with the amazing Lisa Power. |
| 1:30.3 | Lisa is the co-founder of Stonewall and was a key figure in queer activism during the whole of Section 28 she was integral to getting it repealed. |
| 1:38.0 | Amazing conversation about how no matter what your feelings are you have to work with those who you disagree with if you want to affect change and I thought that was amazing. |
| 1:48.0 | So if you haven't listened please do and also we spoke to Ginger Johnson, winner of season 5 of RuPaul's Drag Race, |
| 1:58.0 | and that was a lovely, lovely episode. |
| 2:00.0 | Alice, you a fan of RuPaul's Drag Race? |
| 2:02.0 | I am, yes, but I'm not caught up. I think I'm a season or two behind. |
| 2:06.6 | How could you be? I know. It's impossible. It's like Master Chef. It's like, hang on. |
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