Acting for Others Presents...

As a teaser for our second series, we’re starting with an episode recorded at the West End Fleamarket, 2024. Join Su Pollard as we visit stalls, autograph rooms, and psychic tents full of your favourite West End stars including Harriet Thorpe, Ruth Jones, Lesley Joseph, Christopher Biggins, Bonnie Langford, Clive Rowe and many more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Who better than panto legends Biggins and Su Pollard to pair up for our Christmas special? They take us on a journey through foul-mouthed nine year-olds, The Hoff's wife's Poundland fail, pyrotechnics disasters, getting fresh with waiters at Joe Allen's, Matt Hancock ruining I'm a Celebrity, traditions and superstitions, the joys of dragging up, and a tribute to their dear departed friend, Ruth Ma...

Come on, dive in! If you haven't already joined our growing band of listeners, then now's the time to get stuck in, because we have a very fun Christmas special for you, featuring those irrepressible legends of panto, Su Pollard and Christopher Biggins. And once you've enjoyed that episode, go back through and give the others a go! We've got Dame Judi Dench with Olly Alexander; David Tennant with...

A real-life Dame and a fictional Lady - Eileen Atkins and Adjoa Andoh, Bridgerton’s Lady Danbury - pair up to discover they’re kindred spirits, with a surprising amount in common. Their wide-ranging conversation takes in Eileen’s working class roots, her pushy stage mum, a naughty deception that paid off at the Guildhall, the letters of Virginia Woolf, co-creating two TV juggernauts - Upstairs, Do...

Our favourite uproarious octogenarians come together for a very entertaining episode, taking in everything from Derek’s late-onset stagefright, Miriam’s first years out of the closet, being mentored by Laurence Olivier, working with Alec Guiness, Harold Pinter’s sizable member, an embarrassing moment involving Boris Karloff’s widow, a tale about Oscar Wilde, being broken by sadistic directors, spe...

Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte pairs up with the star of The Watcher and The Undoing to discuss roots, race and identity, career highs after the age of 50, a shared love of fashion, and childhood icons Moira Stewart and Penelope Keith. Introduced by Samantha Bond. Music by Dan Gillespie Sells.  To make a donation to help UK theatre workers in financial need, please click on this link: https://a...

David Tennant and Paapa Essiedu discuss the perils of taking on Hamlet , Bond rumours, shit-humbling, the weirdness of Doctor Who -level stardom, and being gripped by the fear . The episode was recorded in March 2022 over Zoom. To make a donation to help UK theatre workers in financial need, please click on this link: https://actingforothers.co.uk/donate/ Introduced by Samantha Bond. Music by Dan...

Dame Judi and Olly are, maybe surprisingly, pals of yore, and in the inaugural episode they reunite to gossip about Judi’s mice infestation, her new tattoo and the impossibility of making Ben Whishaw corpse, and Olly’s solo musical pivot, It’s a Sin and finding confidence as a performer. The episode was recorded in February 2022 over Zoom. Introduced by Samantha Bond and music by Dan Gil...

Acting for Others Presents... pairs up the UK's brightest stars of stage and screen - Dame Judi Dench, Olly Alexander, David Tennant, Paapa Essiedu, Noma Dumezweni, Golda Rosheuvel, Miriam Margolyes, Sir Derek Jacobi, Dame Eileen Atkins, Adjoa Andoh and more - for intimate conversations about their passion for theatre, the art of storytelling, triumphs and trials, loves and losses and a whole lot...