David Ellison

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414 appearances 6 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2018 last heard 16 Jun

David Ellison’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Bloomberg Talks · David Ellison Talks Media Deal Making at Bloomberg Screentime · 9 Oct 2025 podcast

By the time I was 20, I was one of the top 10 aerobatic pilots in the country.

So literally flying air shows like 300 miles an hour, 15 feet off the ground.

So that was a wonderful chapter in my life.

But I think

The training that he did to be able to do the sequences in Mission Impossible, the fact that he captured all of that filming in camera on Top Gun Maverick, for me, he's just the gold standard and I have nothing but the utmost admiration and respect for him.

The Bookshelf · New fiction from Andrew Miller, Anne Tyler and Victor LaValle · 2 Nov 2018 podcast

Well, I could give you several answers, but the real one is that I immigrated as a kid from America and went from a school that was kind of utopian in the 1970s to a red brick Victorian institution that was terrifying.

And I suddenly recognised it again when I read Dickens.

So it was like, oh, yeah, OK, I get this.

I get this sort of horror.

And I've been exploring it ever since.

I don't know if it's the appeal, but it makes sense to me.

The horror of institutions failing, even though they're bolstered with all kinds of optimism.

The Victorians were terribly optimistic and cruel in their incapacity to realise when things weren't working.

Dickens has been.

I'm looking at what I guess unfortunately you would describe as minor writers, writers who are working in supernatural fiction and ghost fiction in particular.

I'm really interested in the way that that informs an understanding of what it means to live in houses, particularly for middle-class people to live in houses, houses that they're not quite used to living in yet.

So Lacroix is returning home to the family property in Somerset, which is in reduced circumstances.

Lands have been sold up and it's really just the house that's left.

And he's returning home completely shattered.

This is not an unfamiliar story in relation to people returning home from war.

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