Sam Brigger
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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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Well, he must have been because for a year... He served as the moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which is basically like the highest position in the church.
He also had a TV show called That's the Spirit that he co-hosted.
Did you ever go to the set?
I have a hard time believing the story, but it's been told many times. Oh, come on. What's this? At the age of three, you told your family that you wanted to be an actor because you wanted to play Doctor Who.
Well, first of all, just the wish fulfillment that you were able to achieve in your adulthood playing one of the most famous Doctor Whos. But also, did you, at the age of three, understand that Doctor Who was an actor? Like, did you want to act as Doctor Who? Did you want to be Doctor Who? Yeah.
So where I grew up, you couldn't just get Doctor Who on the 13 channels that we had.
I don't know if televisions were the same.
We had three. But there was this other dial where you could – it was kind of like a radio dial where you could dial in – like farther television stations. And sometimes I could dial in like the out of state public television show that did have Dr. Who. And the things that I remember about it was first that it was really scary. Like the monsters were scary and the theme music terrified me.
But then the thing that I also noticed was like sometimes I would notice how cheaply made the show was. Like why are all these sci-fi futuristic characters wearing clothes that look like they were borrowed from like Masterpiece Theater? And then in all of these science fiction or futuristic sets, there are always these drapes everywhere like blocking off sections of the stage. I don't know.
So those were my early memories of it.
It did feel that way.
Well, let's hear you from Doctor Who. This is from your first big scene. You've just been regenerated. This would happen. It's sort of like the character would be reincarnated, which was a convenient way to have new actors play this role. And so you're reintroducing yourself to your traveling companion played by Billy Piper and some other characters.
And you're also surrounded by some pretty tough looking aliens. Let's hear this. Now, first things first.
That's our guest David Tennant as Doctor Who in his first big scene. So you're asking, you're like, who am I there? One of the things that I really liked about your portrayal of of the Doctor was this unbridled enthusiasm that you brought to the character.
But here you are at this point, you've been classically trained, you went to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Dance, and now you're playing this important British pop figure. How did all of the things that you had learned and the ways that you've trained help you sort of embody this role?
Well, it's pretty remarkable how much the show has given you. Again, like it's sort of this great wish fulfillment. You also met your wife, Georgia, on the show. She actually played your daughter in an episode.
She's an adult character, yes, exactly. And George's father, your father-in-law, was a different incarnation of Doctor Who.
Well, David Tennant, it's been a real pleasure to talk with you. Thank you so much for coming on Fresh Air.
David Tennant's podcast, called David Tennant Does a Podcast With, is now in its third season. Fresh Air Weekend is produced by Teresa Madden. Fresh Air's executive producer is Danny Miller. Our technical director and engineer is Audrey Bentham.
Our interviews and reviews are produced and edited by Phyllis Myers, Roberta Shurock, Anne-Marie Baldonado, Lauren Krenzel, Monique Nazareth, Thea Chaloner, Susan Yakundi, and Anna Bauman. Our digital media producer is Molly Seavey Nesper. For Terry Gross and Tanya Mosley, I'm Sam Brigger.
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