The journey with the creators of ‘Joy’

Jack Thorne and Rachel Mason join host Anita Guru to talk about the release on the 22nd November 2024 of the new Netflix film, Joy, which tells the story of how IVF was born and the story of the pioneering scientists behind it. Jack and Rachel are very candid and open about their own personal journey with infertility and IVF treatment, which was one of the driving forces to write the phenomenal film.

Jack Thorne is a BAFTA and Tony Award-winning screenwriter and theatre writer. His film credits include The Swimmers; Enola Holmes and Enola Holmes 2, starring Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill and Sam Claflin; The Aeronauts, starring Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne; and Wonder; starring Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson. Thorne’s TV credits include His Dark Materials, Help and Best Interests. On the theatre side, he wrote the Tony and Olivier Award-winning Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and most recently The Motive and the Cue, directed by Sam Mendes.

Rachel Mason is half of The Mason Sisters artist management, who represent the multi-award-winning Charlie and Daisy May Cooper (This Country). Joy marks Mason's debut collaboration with her husband Jack Thorne, with whom Mason went through her own IVF journey, leading to their own source of joy – their son, Elliott.

Link to Guardian article mentioned in the episode - - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/10/screenwriter-jack-thorne-ivf-joy-film-netflix

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