LORD OF THE FLIES - sun bbc1 9pm - TV PACE. NO SPOILERS

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A group of school boys are marooned on a desert island in an adaptation or William Golding‘s classic novel Lord of the flies

A plane transporting, schoolboy crushed lands on a remote island with no adults around supervise them their attempts to remain civilise soon descends into violence.

This four part series is a first television dictation of the classic 1954 novel each episode is shown from one of the main characters with the first one devoted to piggy.

Piggy is a responsible one who wants to keep everything calm. A lot of the boys go so when they’re stranded piggy tells everyone they have to have rules but the boys don’t act well to that.

Piggy initially be friends Ralph a boy who voted leader but Ralph‘s rival Jack taught piggy about his weight and poor eyesight

Jack judges PIGGY starts picking on him. He tries to be friends with Ralph when he knows that Ralph is PIGGY‘s only thread to hold onto they really don’t like each other.

not sure if I will watch as never like the book at school but doing thread incase I do and for others who may enjoy

Very apt for this thread

but yes I recognise you from the many threads

why did you choose this name ?

I thought they were being evacuated due to another war in UK but could be wron

i don’t remember Piggy being called Nicholas in book

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/23/lord-of-the-flies-diverse-casting-and-themes-of-racial-identity

No spoilers but very interesting respones to the Simon, Ralph, Jack and Piggy (the adaptation made up the name Nicholas)

Can't really say blondes!

Piggy's name is never revealed in the book. This is purposely done to dehumanise him.
I have always thought he came from a lower social class to the rest of the boys
in the book (I have also always believed they were on the plane due to wartime evacuation hence a mix of them altogether)
In my interpretation, Piggy has been brought up by his auntie, (and is around adults a lot) hence him referencing her a lot, while the majority of the other boys are obviously public school pupils.

Roger is supposed to have black hair, which is representational of his dark demeanour.

David McKenna as Piggy and Lox Pratt as Jack are stand out performances.
Lox Pratt in particular, plays the supercilious yet disturbingly vulnerable character very well.

Thanks, yes that is my interpretation and it was an airship rather than a plane?

last read book in 1982 at school but these things stay with you. Yes, definitely about class but odd Piggy seems to be the only one of lower class or perhaps some of the littleuns were as well?

It's a plane. The boys talk about the passenger tube.

I also thought they started eating some of the boys. I have never read the book and believed this all of my life. I must have mixed it up with the aeroplane crash where that happened.

Yes, definitely about class but odd Piggy seems to be the only one of lower class or perhaps some of the littleuns were as well?

The cost of air travel would have been prohibitive to the majority of people at that time, especially longhaul. It would have only been the sort of people who could afford boarding school who could have afforded to fly.

Just caught up with episode 3.
It's such a difficult watch than I can only manage one episode at a time with a break in between.
I remembered what happened to Simon in the book just as he was shown running through the undergrowth.
It was very effective the way they showed him at the start, singing in the choir and looking towards the image of the crucification and then seeing him at the end of the episode in a similar pose.
Although the boys' back stories are not described in the book, I think it works to hint at them in this tv adaptation. It explains the complex relationship between Jack and Simon.
I remember studying it at school in 1980s and we had to write an essay following up the characters. Mine began with Ralph and Jack meeting by chance in a psychiatrist's waiting room!

Alive.

They are all outstanding and I agree Lox Pratt is going to be hot property.

I read this a couple of weeks ago. He seems very eloquent amd switched on for his age.

https://metro.co.uk/2026/02/15/i-play-jack-lord-flies-just-a-bully-26853610/

On BBC Four tv on Sunday at 10pm there is a behind the scenes look at the making of the new adaptation we are watching.

thank you @deeahgwitch

E4 tonight. Last one

The Making of Lord Of The Flies - i will watch this during the week , it looks interesting . They would've have to have dealt with sun,rain,insects, all those children!, tummy upsets , parents ., time schedules , light availability .

When I was watching the programme I kept thinking "their poor feet , wearing their shoes and socks , going through mud and water and they never get dry "

There was a quote I found in the book when i read it , something like "10 miles above them the battle raged on" so here was a war going on (but Golding doesn't specify) and the world of adults sent a sign (parachutist who they thought was the Beast ) but no child was awake to see it . They thought they were truly abandoned .

Enjoy ( if that's the right word ) tonight's episode .

Kids make up is amazing. Tho wondering what the white and black is

red blood

It's amazingly atmospheric.

I feel like I’ve been through the ringer after that 😕

I agree and as well done as it was, I'm glad it's over. I need to reclaim my Sunday evenings.

As the series finishes, I'm reminded of the actual news over the weekend and how Trump is acting like the worst of those boys.

It makes it hard to shrug off the gloom the programme makes me feel.

Wow. So they get rescued

I got the feeling that Jack wanted to stay. All the others going past him to be rescued

poor piggy - his head bled a lot

smoking out. Shame the first fire the all of the trees didn’t alert anyone

were they on the island for 3mths then. As got to 81 days I think

Well known actors for the adults as well

That ending was expectedly grim. The visuals, direction, editing and acting was superb. Production values brilliant. It certainly has a 21st century update and resonance. Excellent adaptation.

I know he’s in the new Harry P but I think in years to come these 4 will go far but rep Jack aka lox

recap e4

https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/tv/a70516064/lord-of-the-flies-episode-4-recap-ending-explained/