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It was while attending a round table with a big Hollywood writer, organised as part of BFI NETWORK x BAFTA Crew, the development programme for emerging and mid-level creatives, that Edward Cripps asked if it would be possible to do something similar with a British creative who was closer to their entry level. BAFTA subsequently arranged a round table with Charlie Covell, the former BAFTA Breakthrough (2015) who had just been nominated for writing The End of the F•••ing World (2017). “Charlie was very kind and candid and we kept in touch afterwards,” he says. 32
