Linda Holmes
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6,798 appearances
64 recordings
7 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 3d ago
Linda Holmes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It is so common that we have these conversations on this show about how a series, it's good, but it's eight episodes and it should have been six, or it's ten episodes and it should have been eight, or it's 12 episodes and it should have been eight.
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I think six is just right for this.
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An emergency dispatcher gets a call one night from a girl he thinks might be his own long-missing daughter.
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That's the incident at the heart of the very compelling new Apple TV thriller series Last Scene, which follows the dispatcher as he becomes obsessed with finding the truth, even at the cost of his own stability and sobriety.
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I'm Linda Holmes, and joining me today on NPR's pop culture happy hour is culture writer Margaret H.
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Willison.
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Hello Margaret.
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And also with us is culture critic Kristen Meinzer.
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Hello, Kristen, welcome back.
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Hey,
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I'm delighted to have you both here.
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Patrick Brammel, who you might know from the excellent comedy series Colin from Accounts, stars in this very different kind of show as Ian, a former police detective whose toddler daughter Maggie vanished 11 years ago.
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Following that tragedy, his marriage broke up, uh, in part because of his alcoholism.
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He left his job.
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When we find him here, he's a few months sober, now working at
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As an emergency dispatcher.
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He and his ex wife, who's expecting a baby with her now husband, are deeply shaken when the police find a body that might be that of their long missing daughter.
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They prepare themselves to finally, you know, perhaps be able to grieve her loss fully, but not long after that, Ian takes an emergency call one night that he thinks is from Maggie.
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The girl on the phone, now a young teenager, disappears before he can get to her, and Ian becomes fixated on finding her.
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Last scene is streaming on Apple TV.
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