I think that Jack Thorne did have some religion in his life - the singing on the bus thing - so he's not coming at at it from the total outside, useful when it comes to writing sermons, the last rites or confronting wife abusers in prison. But no - that isn't the main question. The main question is - how do you pronounce Paapa? It's apparently PAH-pa. And then Es-ee-AY-doo.
There's some meaty stuff in here - Paapa's revelations about being in foster care, for example. But this is a love story, or, as I prefer to think of it - a story about love. In particular between a nun and a Catholic priest.
Good stuff from deaf sister Sophie Stone and fellow priest Adrian Scarborough. Holly Rhys is the troubled teenager, Jason Watkins the Backwards Bishop.
It hasn't had the best response from audiences or critics. I thought it was different, and the two leads were good - Keeley Hawes is the nun, by the way - we watched all six 45 minute episodes in a run, and were enjoying the fact that the sound mixer had absolute freedom to drop that peacock call in to any scene whenever he or she wanted.
Niamh Cusack is the head nun, Tina Brown the battered wife. You can bet that Jack Thorne is writing something right now.
And I know it's in the wrong shape but I like this:
- because it reminds me of this:
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