Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story creators on their ‘queer, chaotic, messy’ take

Linus Karp in Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story (Image: Dave Bird)

Inspiration can be a funny thing. Much like lightning which rarely strikes the same place twice, inspiration rarely strikes in the same way more than once. For example, you can be working on what you think is a perfectly good idea and then you find an old skit you did for your partner’s mum’s 60th birthday and realise it makes a great basis for a show. Or one of the world’s biggest film stars can get into a skiing accident which several years later becomes a televised legal battle and also forms the basis of a show. That whole lightning thing is a myth anyway.

All of that to say that Linus Karp and Joseph Martin have always

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