One of the greatest playwrights of his generation, Jez Butterworth, joins his old friend Jonathan to discuss his creative process and extraordinary body of work. In part one of their conversation, we hear why Jez was magnetically drawn to Pewsey on the day of the Queen's funeral, how there's sometimes an ideas butler by the bedside when he wakes up in the morning, which utterly inappropriate production he went to see as an 8 year old Cub, and his unlikely similarity to Shaggy (the musician, not Scooby Doo's mate). He also tells a hugely revealing anecdote about forgetting his shield when playing a centurion during his first stage performance.

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