It's a Sin
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Oct 31, 2026
BrettHOST
Davies is one of the UK's most influential TV writers.
BrettHOST
From the groundbreaking Queer as Folks to his acclaimed dramas, including It's a Sin, years and years and more recently tiptoe and he had major impact on the greatest tv but perhaps the most significant is dr who in 2025 or 20 2005 he brought back the time lord after a 16 year absence he revived the show again in 2026 blah blah blah okay Anyway, the BBC canceled the whatever.
BrettHOST
Okay, we're done with this because now all it is is just saying all the things that there is.
BrettHOST
All human life is there, you know, whatever.
27 MINS LATER
LegionGUEST
Russell was really good 20 years ago.
LegionGUEST
No, no, no. That's unfair.
LegionGUEST
Russell was really good up to and including It's a Sin.
LegionGUEST
However...
TroyHOST
It's not coming out very clearly on the camera because, I don't know, my camera hates me.
TroyHOST
But you've got sections for Queer as Folk, The Second Coming, Casanova, Doctor Who, Torchwood and Sarah Jane, Cucumber, Years and Years, It's a Sin, Nolly, Doctor Who Coming Back, War Between Land and the Sea.
TroyHOST
There's other bits beyond that.
TroyHOST
I'm just reading out a few key ones.
Richard AngellGUEST
Now, if that is not a reason to get out of bed in the morning, to donate to a charity or to support our causes and our campaigns, i don't know what it is
John HylandHOST
well exactly i mean i mean i'll touch on the 2030 number in a minute or year rather number um but when you talk about like you know um some of the attitudes to the disease back then as well as gay men and the wider lgbt community it makes me think back to when we first spoke about five years ago we were talking about it's a sin and i know that's obviously dramatized but it was very accurate in how people were being treated weren't they you know that's what 10, 20 years after the decriminalisation of homosexuality, you think attitudes might have changed.
Richard AngellGUEST
Well, I think that was the bit that often, and we maybe are seeing this in other parts of queer life, is when you get a step forward, you often get a reaction to the visibility within that, which was often, in some ways, the message of Tiptoe, which was Russell T Davies' latest artistic creation.
Richard AngellGUEST
But you go back to It's a Sin, what an honour to work for a charity that basically features in every one of the episodes So in episode one, Terrence Higgins Trust is there because somebody has died early on and that friends are getting together saying there needs to be a thing.
Boyd HiltonHOST
We may well end up reviewing it, so I don't want to spoil it.
Boyd HiltonHOST
But what I did do, gratuitously, is, because Keely Hawes was in It's a Sin.
Boyd HiltonHOST
Did you re-watch?
Steph SeelanHOST
No.
Rob IrwinHOST
I mean, I'd say for people interested in his work, especially if you've seen a lot of the shows he's made over the years, and I actually haven't.
Rob IrwinHOST
I haven't seen It's a Sin.
Rob IrwinHOST
I haven't seen Years and Years.
Rob IrwinHOST
I don't think I've seen most of The Grand.
Dave KitchenHOST
Yeah, and look, I have seen a lot more of his work than you have.
Dave KitchenHOST
I mean, I've seen Queer as Folk.
Dave KitchenHOST
I've seen It's a Sin.
Dave KitchenHOST
I've seen A Very English Scandal.
Adam BuxtonHOST
as Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe, whose affair in the early 1960s with Norman Scott, played by Ben Whishaw, led to his political downfall.
Adam BuxtonHOST
In 2018, during the production of Russell's dystopian drama Years and Years, Andrew died, and in the years that followed, Russell channelled his grief and decades of memories into the 2021 drama It's a Sin, which portrayed a group of people affected by the AIDS crisis in 1980s UK.
Adam BuxtonHOST
It's a Sin was a phenomenal hit, driving a record surge in HIV testing and helping to bring a forgotten history to light.
Adam BuxtonHOST
2021 was also the year that Russell announced he was returning as showrunner to the world of Doctor Who, supersizing the series for a global streaming audience on Disney+.
Adam BuxtonHOST
Russell tells stories about Doctor Who and the rest of his life and career thus far in his recently published memoir, The Queerest of Folk.
11 MINS LATER
Russell T DaviesGUEST
And I mean a lot, all day, every day.
Russell T DaviesGUEST
And there are some things I've been thinking about for 10 years.
Russell T DaviesGUEST
When I came to write It's a Sin, I'd been thinking about that for 40 years.
Chris MoylesHOST
Do you know what you're doing next?
Russell T DaviesGUEST
I-- next I've got a stage show, which is a dance show of It's a Sin.
Russell T DaviesGUEST
Rambert, who used to be Ballet Rambert.
Russell T DaviesGUEST
Uh, if you think about It's a Sin, it condenses down to dance beautifully 'cause it's I love you, I'm dying, I miss you, uh, family, togetherness.
Russell T DaviesGUEST
... pain.
Russell T DaviesGUEST
Um, that, that becomes done.
speaker_27UNKNOWN
Oh, yeah.
Russell T DaviesGUEST
I can't wait.
Colson SmithHOST
What a mix.
Colson SmithHOST
Top TV series, It's a Sin, Band of Brothers.
Colson SmithHOST
I would love you to watch Welcome to Derry, a Sky series.
Jack P. ShepherdHOST
Yeah, I was going to do that.
Ros AtkinsHOST
Who.
Ros AtkinsHOST
He's also behind groundbreaking series such as It's a Sin and Years and Years, as well as more recently Tiptoe, delivering stories for television that have gripped audiences and influenced British culture.
Katie RazzallHOST
We spoke to him on the release of his new memoir and began by asking him about his childhood in Wales, where he says the TV was on all the time.
Russell T DaviesGUEST
My mum and dad never switched it off, even if visitors came to the house.
GaryHOST
So he started creating stuff while still being under contract, um, with that kind of potential, yeah, maybe there'll be a third series with Disney, maybe not, who knows.
GaryHOST
But started working on a show called Tiptoe for Channel 4, and then working on the, uh, the dance version of It's a Sin, um, with Rambert.
GaryHOST
And, um, so he said that in actual, in, in reality, if there was a, a, a third series that had come along from Disney, he said it would have been an absolute nightmare [chuckles] for him.
GaryHOST
He said he would have managed it because he started, you know, pushing forward with all this other work, so it would have been a real, a real nightmare for him.
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