Clark Peters
speaker
540 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3 Jul
Clark Peters’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm Clark Peters, and this is Founding Fathers, An American Dream.
Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence.
George Washington leads a ragtag army against the mighty British Empire.
A furious crowd in New York tears down a statue of the king.
250 years ago, the United States of America was born.
But how did the people invent a new nation?
Listen to Founding Fathers, An American Dream from the Noiser Podcast Network, wherever you get your podcasts.
This American Life, wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you.
That was a lovely introduction.
I did all that?
Well, I picked this profession so that I would have longevity, so that I could still be acting at 100 if it comes to it.
But starting out, I always played older people.
So in Driving Miss Daisy, for example, with Dame Wendy Hiller, I think I was in my late 30s playing Hoke, who was well up into his 80s, and I looked at a diary that I'd written, and on one page it was, I'm tired of playing old guys because there's no future in it.
But I'm still here playing old guys.
To tell you the truth, honestly, I didn't want to do The Burrows because someone had likened it to Stranger Things, which I hadn't seen before this offer came through.
And what I didn't want to be doing was...
acting as I'm chasing monsters until I'm 80 years old.
But then I read the script and I thought, oh, I can resonate with this journey, with the quest that art is on.
And then I looked at the cast and I thought, oh, there's just no way I can say no to this.
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