Will Chalk

Professor Chloe

Professor Chloe Orkin from London's Queen Mary University.

You might have been watching Famous Last Words on Netflix.

It was originally Danish, but has now gone international.

It involves an interview with a prominent person, recorded privately, and stored away and only broadcast when they die.

The last section of the recording is the person speaking to camera on their own, leaving a message that no one else hears until it gets a posthumous airing.

Last year, the programme aired an interview with the British anthropologist Jane Goodall after her death.

Here she is speaking to host Brad Fulchuck.

Well, there is now a new episode.

It's Eric Dane, star of the US medical drama Grey's Anatomy, who died last week from motor neurone disease.

He addressed his daughters at the very end of his interview.

Mikkel Bondarsson is the producer who took the Danish concept to Netflix.

He's been talking to Evan Davis about the inspiration behind the series.

Do you think you get a very different look at someone's life if they know that this is only going to be aired after they pass?

Absolutely.

I think it would really change the way you view it.

Although a lot of this, you know, would depend on my trust of you and Brad and the team.

The confidence I'm bestowing in you by giving you my really personal last words, that those are going to not somehow drift out into the public domain before I die.

This is an exercise anyone can do, isn't it?

I mean, anyone can make a video now.