{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69d9f5bbaf4db69e0d33070e/69e85ef3d2febdbec9e60d7a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 1 - David Ames","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/69d9f5bbaf4db69e0d33070e/1776836321640-8d55cdf4-7181-4e70-8669-9ae2cbc90a85.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Actor <strong>David Ames</strong> — known for <em>Holby City, Hollyoaks &amp; Changing Ends</em> — is the very first guest on Once Upon a Time. David sits down with Scott &amp; Jamie to share the three stories that shaped who he became — spanning ancient mythology, parallel universes, and a play he read at university before he was ready to understand what it really meant.</p><p>His choices: Madeline Miller's <em>The Song of Achilles</em>, Philip Pullman's <em>His Dark Materials</em>, and Tony Kushner's <em>Angels in America</em>. Together they trace a journey from his rural childhood in Hampshire to one of the BBC's flagship dramas — and the personal journey that rang quietly beside it.</p>","author_name":"with Scott Brown & Jamie Love"}