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Obsessed With...

Noughts + Crosses: Malorie Blackman

Obsessed With...

BBC

Society & Culture

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Host Kelechi Okafor obsesses over Noughts + Crosses with writer Malorie Blackman as they discuss the iconic story and its transition from page to screen.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

0:05.2

I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy

0:10.2

podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.

0:13.0

Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,

0:18.0

making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.

0:22.0

But you know I also know that comedy is really

0:24.4

subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer

0:29.6

from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you

0:36.2

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0:41.8

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0:45.0

Our children deserve a better future than our past.

0:49.0

We need everyone to clear the series.

0:51.0

Obsessed. Nauts and the crosses.

0:55.0

It's time we regained order.

0:57.0

Obsessed with knots and crosses.

1:01.0

Hello baby girls, baby boys and baby non-binaryies. Welcome welcome welcome. So I'm

1:06.2

Kaleshiopfau and this is obsessed with Nause and

1:09.9

I'm very excited to be speaking to Mallory Blackman, the author of Nautz and Crosses, the novel which this series is based on.

1:18.3

Obsessed with Nautz and Crosses.

1:22.3

So Nautz and Crosses. So, Nautz and Cross is a dystopian kind of parallel universe

1:27.0

based on the kind of modern age, but it's inverted.

1:30.0

So we're in Albion, and Albion kind of looks like London. Yeah, you'd say it's kind of like London and it's been colonised by

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