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Julie Walters: “This is something we need to be putting out there”

A new TV drama looks at the impact of historic sexual offences against a much loved public figure. Julie Walters talks to John Wilson on Front Row about playing the long-suffering wife of the accused in the drama. The screenwriter, Jack Thorne, (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) talks about the huge responsibility of writing around such a sensitive subject.

The first episode of National Treasure is broadcast on Channel 4 on 20 September.

First broadcast on Front Row, 14 September 2016.

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5 minutes

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