Bonus: Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty on Adolescence and male rage
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Adolescence has sparked fresh discussion about the impact social media and misogynistic influencers have on young boys, so we thought you’d like to hear Amol’s full interview with Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty.
He spoke to them before the series was released about what inspired Stephen to make it, the issues it raises, Owen Cooper’s standout performance and how each episode was filmed in one-shot.
And make sure you listen to this week’s episode of The Today Podcast to hear Amol explore those themes in more detail.
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The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson who are both presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Amol was the BBC’s media editor for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s political editor for ten years before that and also previously worked as ITV’s political editor.
This episode was made by Lewis Vickers with Jade Lauriston. The technical producer was Jonny Baker. The editor is Louisa Lewis. The executive producer is Owenna Griffiths.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's Amol here with something for your weekend, |
| 0:07.1 | because on the episode we published earlier this week, |
| 0:10.2 | we talked a lot about the issues that are raised |
| 0:12.6 | in the massive hit Netflix series, Adolescence. |
| 0:16.3 | The crisis of masculinity amongst boys |
| 0:18.1 | and the role that social media, pornography, |
| 0:20.6 | and misogynistic |
| 0:22.1 | influences play in shaping their views of what it means to be a man today. If you haven't |
| 0:28.1 | listened to that podcast yet, please do give it a listen after this one because it's such |
| 0:32.6 | an interesting and illuminating conversation and we have had a really superb response. |
| 0:38.3 | Adolescence is a huge global hit, but before it triggered this conversation we're now having |
| 0:42.5 | about young men, I actually spoke to two of the stars of that drama at length. They are Stephen |
| 0:47.3 | Graham, who co-created the series and plays the father of the boy accused of murdering a girl |
| 0:51.9 | from his school, and Erin Doherty, who plays a child psychologist in episode three. |
| 0:57.2 | So we thought it was worth bringing you the full conversation that I had |
| 1:01.4 | with Stephen and Erin last week. |
| 1:03.9 | Let's do it. |
| 1:04.4 | We're... Stephen, Erin, very nice to see you guys. |
| 1:21.9 | I've watched one and a half episodes of this astonishing program. |
| 1:26.6 | As a father of four, I found it extremely disturbing and topical and necessary. |
| 1:32.1 | Why did you want to make, Stephen, I start with you. |
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