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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And the audience is sort of around the stage. And I noticed watching the film of it that all the audience members were wearing headphones. Why was that?
Let's hear what one of those soliloquies sounds like. This is the famous tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow soliloquy from the end of the play. And you have just discovered that Lady Macbeth has been killed.
signify nothing okay so that's from the film version of Macbeth um so you know I'm wearing headphones now so I feel like I'm sort of experiencing what that would have been like for the audience because you are really whispering and I guess I was wondering like if you were doing that in a more traditional theater sense and you had to project to the cheap seats like how do you approach that same speech in those sort of two different scenarios
And how many times did you do the play? Oh, 150 or something. So every time it feels different?
Our guest is David Tennant. He'll be back after a short break. I'm Sam Brigger, and this is Fresh Air.
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?
But he was a good preacher, yeah. 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, like, 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.
Do you remember what was so captivating about the show to you?
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 Doctor 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. Be honest.
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