Writer Daisy Goodwin Brings Victoria to Life

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🗓️ 13 February 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of the First Season of Victoria.

What does it take to write a television series? In Daisy Goodwin’s case, it took a fight, 30 years of research experience, and a lot of heart. This is the story of how Daisy Goodwin came to write "Victoria," and how she brought 19th-century characters to life on screen.

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0:18.2	Did you spot Victoria Creator Daisy Goodwin in the latest episode of the show? If not, don't worry. I didn't either. The important
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0:53.6	As the story goes, Daisy Goodwin was fighting
0:56.0	with her teenage daughter when she had a revelation.
0:59.0	And I just suddenly thought, mmm, that's quite interesting.
1:02.1	You know, what would happen if this someone as
1:04.4	tempestuous and as mighty as my daughter became Queen tomorrow.
1:09.8	The idea of the teenage Queen formed the backbone of Daisy's next project, a television
1:14.6	script about the young Queen Victoria, which would morph into masterpiece's drama, Victoria.
1:20.2	As a writer and TV producer who's been studying Victoria in England for the past 30 years,
1:24.9	Daisy was perfectly suited to the task of bringing that story to the screen.
1:29.2	I sort of feel I understand the Victorian period better sometimes. I think I understand the 21st century.
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