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In Touch: All The Light We Cannot See

All The Light We Cannot See

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We review the Netflix adaptation of Anthony Doerr's novel All the Light We Cannot See.

Anthony Doerr's 2014 novel All The Light We Cannot See has been adapted into a TV series on Netflix. With the actress who plays her, we discuss the story's blind heroine.

Anthony Doerr's 2014 war novel All The Light We Cannot See has been adapted into a four-part TV series on Netflix. The story is based in Nazi-occupied France during World War Two, and revolves around a blind character called Marie-Laure LeBlanc and a German boy, Werner Pfennig, who is pressed into serving as an anti-German radio broadcast interceptor for the Nazi army. 

Aria Mia Loberti plays the role of Marie in the series and she joins us from Rhode Island to share what the experience was like of starring in her first acting role, the choices she applied to the character and she shares anecdotes of what it was like on set as a blind person and filming with the likes of Hugh Laurie. Fern Lulham is the voice of the audio description for the adaptation on Netflix and she tells us more about how audio describing works when you're visually impaired and Sean Randall is an avid reader, who has both read the book and watched the series, he helps us assess how well Marie-Laure LeBlanc has been adapted to the screen.

The Netflix series All the Light We Cannot See was written by Steven Knight and Directed by Shawn Levy.

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Beth Hemmings	 
Production Coordinator: Liz Poole  
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