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.

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 Madoc.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://actingforothers.co.uk/donate/Produced by Robert Rees and executive produced by Kevin Mundye and Rich Evans. Artwork by Ollie at Feast Creative.Editing by Matt and Scott at Podmonkey. Acting for Others Presents… is a Simple Beast Production.With thanks to the Rockliffe Hall Hotel in Darlington. Merry Christmas to all our lovely listeners. Thank you for your support!

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 Paapa Essiedu; Golda Rosheuvel and Noma Dumezweni; Miriam Margolyes with Sir Derek Jacobi; and Adjoa Andoh and Dame Eileen Atkins. What's not to love about all that?!

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, Downstairs and The House of Elliot, and how to stay young and limber; and Adjoa’s teenage yearning to be on the stage, quitting her Law degree to follow her dreams, her textbook 80s life on the road with a feminist touring company, the magic of actors and audiences coming together in theatre, and the joy of Shonda Rhimes. 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://actingforothers.co.uk/donate/Produced by Robert Rees and executive produced by Kevin Mundye and Rich Evans. Artwork by Ollie at Feast Creative.Editing by Matt and Scott at Podmonkey. Acting for Others Presents… is a Simple Beast Production.

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, spending time on location with Joaquin Phoenix and Russell Crowe, Miriam’s Jewish ancestry and so much more… 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://actingforothers.co.uk/donate/Produced by Robert Rees and executive produced by Kevin Mundye and Rich Evans. Artwork by Ollie at Feast Creative.Editing by Matt and Scott at Podmonkey. Acting for Others Presents… is a Simple Beast Production. 

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://actingforothers.co.uk/donate/Produced by Robert Rees and executive produced by Kevin Mundye. Artwork by Ollie at Feast Creative.Editing by Matt and Scott at Podmonkey. Acting for Others Presents… is a Simple Beast Production.

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 Gillespie Sells.  Artwork by Ollie Rosser at Feast Creative.Editing by Tom Guest, and Scott at Podmonkey.The producer is Robert Rees and the executive producer is Kevin Mundye.This is a Simple Beast Production.

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 Gillespie Sells.To make a donation to help UK theatre workers in financial need, please click on this link: https://actingforothers.co.uk/donate/A Simple Beast Production. Produced by Robert Rees and executive produced by Kevin Mundye.Editing by Matt and Scott at Podmonkey.Artwork by Ollie at Feast Creative.

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 more. Introduced by Samantha Bond. The first six episodes start dropping on Tuesday, October 11th 2022. All revenue generated by the podcast will go to the charity, Acting for Others, which supports UK theatre workers in financial need. The executive producer is Kevin Mundye, the producer is Robert Rees. Music by Dan Gillespie Sells. Artwork by Ollie at Feast. Editing by Scott and Matt at Podmonkey. This is a Simple Beast production.