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🗓️ 6 June 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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James Graham wrote the play “Quiz” — about an alleged cheating scandal on the British version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” — before he adapted it for TV. Graham talks about starting to doubt the conventional wisdom about Charles and Diana Ingram, a couple accused of cheating on the popular game show in 2001 and in effect stealing 1 million pounds in front of a studio audience. Plus, how is Hollywood responding to a week of protests and police brutality?
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
0:05.0 | Writing is a strange, as a strange act anyway. |
0:08.1 | You sort of always feel a bit silly doing it. |
0:10.4 | You're basically making things up. |
0:12.6 | And I think the only reason why sometimes you have the confidence to do that |
0:16.4 | is because you know it's going to go on somewhere. |
0:19.1 | Someone has programmed it. |
0:20.7 | That's a hell of a motivator to get something done. |
0:23.3 | James Graham wrote the play quiz about an alleged cheating scandal |
0:26.9 | on the British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire |
0:29.5 | before he adapted it for TV. It's now playing on AMC. |
0:33.7 | These dark times should provide a lot of material for Graham, |
0:37.3 | who often writes about big political and cultural moments, but he's finding it hard to get started. |
0:43.3 | Graham tells us about beginning to doubt the conventional wisdom about Charles and Diana Ingram, a couple accused of cheating on millionaire and, in effect, stealing a million pounds in 2001 in front of a studio audience. |
0:57.7 | And he wonders whether with his earlier project on Brexit, he inadvertently gave a career |
1:02.2 | boost to the then little-known Boris Johnson advisor, Dominic Cummings, a moving force behind |
1:08.2 | Brexit. But first on the news banter, how is Hollywood meeting this moment? |
1:14.0 | Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW. |
1:21.6 | I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. |
1:25.4 | Hi there. |
1:25.8 | Well, so we are in the midst of a very significant |
1:29.6 | time in the country, obviously. What we have to hope, I think, is that this leads to something |
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