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Chapter 1: What is the theme of this episode featuring David Morrissey?
Welcome to my travel podcast, Life's a Beach. Every week I invite a special guest to take us on a journey together to their favourite holiday destinations and to reveal their top travel tips and tales.
My passenger this week is an award-winning actor of stage and screen, State of Play, The Red Riding Trilogy, The Deal, Doctor Who, and most recently the much-anticipated drama from Russell T Davies, Tiptoe, on Channel 4 now. With no blinds down, pop those jingles, it's David Morrissey! This is the final boarding call for David Morrissey. This is the final boarding call for David Morrissey.
David Morrissey, please make your way to the gate. This is the final boarding call for David Morrissey. David Morrissey, please make your way to the gate. The flight is about to take off.
Chapter 2: What are David Morrissey's favorite travel destinations?
Thank you. Look who we've got on board. David Morrissey. How are you doing, David?
I'm very well, very well. Very pleased to be here. Such a privilege to be with you.
Thank you. I notice you've been looking up my books over there.
Yeah, well, it's a wonderful book.
Chapter 3: How does David Morrissey describe his experiences in Liverpool?
You didn't know I could read, did you?
Yeah, it's a wonderful book collection. I always think you can sell so much by people's bookshelves.
Yeah, well, they're actually, they're just VHS videos.
They're like, you pull one out and they all come at once.
Yeah, come down with me, Dickinson's Real Deal and Bargain Hunt. No, well, you've read that one, Store of Murder.
That's brilliant.
Yeah.
That's wonderful.
She's brilliant. She also did Five as well. I love a true crime.
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Chapter 4: What memorable holiday stories does David share?
Yes, and then he was abusive and drunk, and she had to, there's no social services. Yes, I mean, fascinating, but I really recommend it. I think it'd be nice to be made into a musical. Who told you that? Well, that just came to me.
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No, you said that. And I think David said it would make a really good musical.
A dark... Left field musical. I just think that the five women in it were so sort of idiosyncratic and wonderful and really... And also Victorian London, so atmospheric.
Sweeney Todd, look at that musical. That's a really grim subject matter.
Well, American Psycho they did recently, which was really brilliant as well. So, you know, I don't think we need to shy away from that. And I'm a big musical fan, so I do think it would be great. Yeah.
Are you sort of hinting at me being Jack the Ripper in this musical?
I wasn't, but, you know, it's up for grabs.
I'm Jack the Ripper. Anything that brings in investment.
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Chapter 5: How does David feel about the concept of holiday romances?
Oh, wait, they're Hollywood's calling. What are you doing? Oh, George, you are sweet. Snuggling up. Snuggling up. Oh, so what's your favourite musical then? Oh, gosh. I can't see you singing along. Do you ever do, like, the sound of music where you're dressed as a nun?
No, I've not done that. I've done those interactive ones. I'd love to do that, but I've not done them. West Side Story? I love West Side Story. I didn't love the recent film, the Spielberg film. I'm a big fan of the original film, which I think is wonderful.
Oh, gosh, yeah.
You know, so that's great. But I mean, Carousel, I think is a really weird... I recently went to see Les Mis and I had never seen it. I'd never seen it.
Chapter 6: What insights does David provide about his upcoming project, Tiptoe?
So I went about a year ago and I thought, okay, I know this story. And I went, I was taken there for my birthday and... I was blown away by it. I thought, oh my God, I don't know this show. I know the numbers, but I don't know the story. I didn't see the film. What links all these people together? And I thought it was just wonderful. I was like blown away by it.
So late to the party, but really loved it.
Well, listen, you're not in a musical, but you are in what sounds like an absolutely amazing thriller on Channel 4, Tiptoe, by Russell T Davies and produced by Nicola Schindler. I mean, that's going to be quality, isn't it?
Yeah, just the people involved was the first thing I really wanted to sort of, you know, pique my interest. Russell I've worked with on Doctor Who. I did a Doctor Who years ago, but I've known him and I just adore his work. And Nicola I've worked with as well, both as an actor and a producer myself and just loved her.
But also it stars Alan Cumming, who's been one of my best friends for the last 40 years. So it's really amazing to work with him. The material is very dark. It's very difficult to watch, I think.
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Chapter 7: What are David's thoughts on the impact of misinformation in society?
It's also very, you know, it's about the divisions in society today and the need to blame others for your own sort of predicament, really. And it's set in Manchester. Alan plays a guy in Manchester who runs a club in Canal Street. He's sort of struggling because he's a small businessman, really, for all the difficulties that people are facing.
But he lives next door to me in Manchester and I'm an electrician, but I'm down on hard times. I'm sort of lost my job. My kids are growing up. My marriage is not in a good place. And I sort of become radicalized by the far right, really. And Alan becomes the target of my aggression and my anger, really.
Yeah. Because Russell T Davies says it's his angriest work yet. And he says it's going to be called Woke by a colossal degree and stuff. Because the thing is with Woke, no one actually knows what it is. But I mean, I think what the original Woke was looking out for people, marginalised people and being on their side. I think it's just that word's just been made into something.
It's a slur, isn't it? Yeah, now it's a time to close down arguments, I think. Whereas what Russell is trying to do is bring this to the forefront of our debate, really, of saying, look, this is where we're going. Even if we haven't arrived there already, which I think we have, in a sense that we're not looking after each other.
Chapter 8: What is on David Morrissey's travel bucket list?
There's a wonderful bit where Alan confronts me And says, you'll believe everything you read on the internet, but you won't believe me, your neighbor for the last 12 years, someone who you know. You won't believe what I say and my lived experience, but you'll believe all this nonsense that you get amplified on the internet. And that's true of my character.
Every sort of conspiracy theory he has or sort of strange notion, he goes on the internet and it's amplified in his head and he gets verification for it on the internet. And then he lives with that sort of certainty, even though the evidence in front of him is not that.
The trouble with conspiracy theories is they go too far, I feel. Because there was a man who came, I don't want to be too specific, but did some work at the house and he's a bit of a conspiracy theorist. And it starts off all right. And then he started saying that there is people who live in the South Pole who are 12 feet tall and a master race. And I was like, oh, here we go.
But I bet if you looked at that up on the internet, there'll be loads of people saying, yes, you're right.
I'm doing an interview with one of them after this. I've invited him on my podcast. Anything you want confirmed will be on there. Yeah, it's weird, isn't it? It's crazy. Tell us a conspiracy theory you believe in. Do you believe the world's flat?
No, I don't believe the world's flat. And I do believe that we went to the moon. I mean, I think... Some people don't. I mean, clever people, you go, what? I mean, there's a great bit of Buzz Aldrin where this guy confronts him and just keeps going up to him saying, you know, you never went to the moon, nobody's ever been to the moon.
And then at one point he says to Buzz Aldrin, you, sir, are a liar. And Buzz Aldrin just turns around and punches him right in the face. And you're so pleased. It's brilliant.
So, you know, it's... Because it's also insulting at the bottom of the day. You're calling someone a liar who's done it. Put all that training in to go to the moon.
I think conspiracy theories have always been with us. But the idea now of social media and X or whatever is they get amplified to the nth degree. And, you know, that's the difficulty is the fact that everything you want, you can start any rumour. It's always that thing of bad news will be around the world before the truth has got its boots on. And with the internet, that's even more true.
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