Sam Brigger
speaker
1,127 appearances
24 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 6 Jun
Sam Brigger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Broadway comedy O Mary is nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Play and Best Leading Actor in a Play. The comedy follows a very fictionalized, intentionally improbable version of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln in the time leading to her husband's assassination. Our guest today, Kola Skola, wrote the play and stars as Mary. They spoke with Fresh Air's Anne-Marie Baldonado.
Cole Escola spoke with Fresh Air's Anne-Marie Baldonado. Escola will play Mary Todd Lincoln until June 21st. O'Mary continues its Broadway run until September. Fresh Air Weekend is produced by Teresa Madden. Fresh Air's executive producer is Danny Miller. For Terry Gross and Tanya Mosley, I'm Sam Brigger.
Hey, Sam Sanders here with KCRW, personally inviting you to check out my new podcast. It's an entertainment show that tries to figure out what makes the culture tick and tell the stories behind creators we love. New episodes are out every Friday, wherever you get your podcasts.
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From WHYY in Philadelphia, I'm Sam Brigger with Fresh Air Weekend. Today, musician Jason Isbell. The songs on his new album are about... Old relationships, new relationships, gratitude, fear, loss, grief, joy. Several songs allude to the fracturing of his marriage to musician Amanda Shires. Terry asked if they could find a way to talk about these songs without being invasive.
Also, we hear from Scottish actor David Tennant. When he was three, he told his parents he wanted to grow up to play Doctor Who on TV. As a teen, he held on to that dream.
This is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Sam Brigger. Terry has our first interview. I'll let her introduce it.
We're listening to Terry Gross' interview with Jason Isbell. His new album is called Foxes in the Snow. We'll hear more of their conversation after a break. I'm Sam Brigger, and this is Fresh Air Weekend.
Jason Isbell's new album is called Foxes in the Snow. He spoke with Terry Gross. The new series Dying for Sex is an FX on Hulu production. It stars Michelle Williams from The Fablemans and Blue Valentine as a woman whose cancer returns after a period of dormancy, leading her on a quest to explore her sexual drive and passions in a new way.
Dying for Sex is based on a real story and inspired by a podcast of the same name. Our TV critic, David Bianculli, says the series ends up being much deeper and more emotionally resonant than he expected. Here's his review.
David Bianculli is a professor of television studies at Rowan University. He reviewed Dying for Sex. It's streaming on Hulu. Coming up, Scottish actor David Tennant, perhaps best known for playing the Doctor on Doctor Who. I'm Sam Brigger, and this is Fresh Air Weekend. Scottish actor David Tennant's list of accomplishments is as long as it has varied.
Perhaps best known for playing Doctor Who, he is also considered one of the finest Shakespearean actors of his generation, as you can see now in the film of his Macbeth, which was staged in 2023, with Tennant playing the lead in Cush Jumbo as Lady Macbeth. It's now streaming on Marquee TV. He is also memorably played Hamlet and Richard II.
You probably watched him as the haunted and brooding detective in the British crime drama Broadchurch, and maybe even in the American adaptation called Grey's Point, where he plays more or less the same role but with an American accent.
David Tennant has also been his share of screen villains, including real-life serial killer Dennis Nilsen in the miniseries Dez, Kilgrave in the Marvel TV show Jessica Jones, one of the most repugnant characters I have ever seen, as well as the smaller but memorable, lip-licking Barty Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
He also hosted the BAFTA Awards for the past two years, Great Britain's version of the Oscars, this year opening the ceremony singing the song 500 Miles in a Bespoke Black Jacket and Kilt Suit. And he was hilarious to watch playing a version of himself in the streaming comedy staged with Michael Sheehan, one of the few good things to come out of the COVID pandemic.
David Tennant also has a podcast called David Tennant Does a Podcast With, where you fill in the name of the guest from that episode, often an actor he has worked with. A third season of the podcast released this year, and while we might have said, hey, David Tennant, stay in your lane. There's enough long-format interview shows out there.
Instead, we decided that this would be a good opportunity to have him on our long-format interview show to ask him about his life and career. So David Tennant, welcome to Fresh Air. Thank you very much for having me. You did two seasons of your podcast ending in 2020, but then you came back last month with the third season. Why did you come back now?
When you go into these interviews, like, do you have a specific agenda? Like, are you when you're like, oh, Olivia Colman, I've always wanted to know this about her? Or do you sometimes think about things in your own career which have puzzled you that gives you an opportunity to ask someone else who does the same work?
Speaking about coping with being a celebrity, you tell a story that someone asked you for an autograph while you were naked in a shower at the gym.
So, David, you grew up outside of Glasgow in Paisley. Your father was a Presbyterian minister. So do you remember your father's sermons? Were they fiery or more contemplative?
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