The roles of a lifetime
David Morrissey interviews his acting peers, a sex cult uncovered and fiction to focus on
WHO AM I THIS TIME? CELEBRITIES interviewing celebrities podcasts abound these days, making it hard for smaller productions to break through and for listeners to discover them.
But David Morrissey’s Who Am I This Time? really is worth its position in the podcast charts, and not just because of his excellent choice of guests who so far include Alan Cumming, Liz Carr and David Harewood. Each episode focuses on a particular role in the interviewee’s career, with David helping to unpick the impact it had on their lives and experience as an actor.
It takes an industry insider to know which questions to ask, and to understand and explain the relevance of some of their encounters.
While he is quite a restrained interviewer, the Liverpudlian is clearly fully engaged in the conversation and you get the feeling he asks some things simply because he personally
wants to know the answers. Where to start: Liz Carr’s eyeopening stories of the inequality she faced as an actor with disabilities, playing the much-loved character Clarissa Mullery from Silent Witness, are maddening.
Meanwhile, David Harewood gives an insight into being a black British actor in America as he talks about the role of CIA director David Estes in Homeland. Where to find it: All the usual podcast apps.
UNCOVER: ESCAPING NXIVM
THE bizarre sex cult masquerading as a marketing coaching company is much better known now than when journalist Josh Bloch released this podcast in 2018.
Since then many disturbing details have been brought to light in a major US trial and hit Netflix documentary The Vow.
But it’s worth going back to Uncover, to hear the story of NXIVM former advocate and escapee Sarah Edmundson as discovered and reported by her old school friend.
As revelation follows revelation – weird branding rituals, an apparent pyramid scheme, a secret men-only group encouraged to blame women for their problems – Josh struggles to reconcile the ex-classmate who fled the cult fearing for her family with the NXIVM senior figure who financially benefited and recruited others to join. Where to start: At the beginning. Where to find it: On all the usual podcast apps.