Peter Straughan on Wolf Hall, Conclave and nurturing UK drama
It’s hard to name a more feted screenwriter right now than Peter Straughan. His adapted screenplay for Vatican drama Conclave won him an Oscar, a Bafta, a Golden Globe and the Critics Choice Award. The Gateshead-born writer, who famously skipped the Oscars parties to celebrate instead with a cup of tea, was also nominated in the writer’s category at this year’s RTS Programme Awards for the BBC’s Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light but lost out to the Jilly Cooper romp Rivals.