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David Tennant, star of Doctor Who, Rivals and Broadchurch, gets talking with the biggest names from TV, movies, comedy and elsewhere. Featuring superstar names like Olivia Colman, James Cordon and Whoopi Goldberg. A Sony Music Entertainment and No Mystery production. Season 3 coming soon!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
David Tennant turns celebrity conversation into an attentive study of creative beginnings, working habits and the doubts that survive success.
David Tennant starts with the route into a working life, then follows the answer toward whatever still unsettles his guest. Ben Schwartz traces comedy from childhood fascination to improv, while Russell T Davies describes the indecision and panic that precede writing.
Georgia Tennant brings notes on her husband; you get to hear David field the questions.
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A funeral prank story becomes a warm, specific meditation on embarrassment and loss.
David Tennant and Georgia Tennant spend most of the conversation circling death, etiquette, and the odd relief of laughing at both. Lou in Christchurch brings the sharpest story: a funeral in Kent, a badly read dress code, and a silk fuchsia shirt with a Hawaiian lei in a room…
A loose comedy chat that turns stage fright and ambition into something tender.
David Tennant and Ben Schwartz open with a playful, slightly awkward note, then settle into why Schwartz wanted to perform at all. The Saturday Night Live memory gives the conversation its center: awe first, confidence later.
A warm, wandering conversation that moves from a kids' Christmas show to church power and childhood stage nerves.
David Tennant and Stanley Tucci settle into an easy, funny back-and-forth that starts with their kids' Christmas show and opens out into religion, power, and Conclave.
A candid, lightly funny conversation about writing panic, indecision, and the ease between them.
David Tennant and Russell T Davies spend much of the conversation on the hard part of writing: the blank page, the stalled decision, the way too many choices can freeze a person in place. What makes it land is how easy they are with each other.
A candid chat that moves from light banter into a plain, useful account of illness and recovery.
David Tennant and Celia Imrie give the opening stretch an easy, teasing rhythm, trading lines about a BAFTAs introduction, a kilt, and the odd fact that so little had been explained in advance.
A loose, funny interview that turns embarrassment, recognition, and kindness into easy candor.
The episode opens in a register the show knows well: work chatter, mild embarrassment, and a candid admission that lets character come through.
A relaxed, self-aware chat about image, embarrassment, and the habits that shape performers.
Rosamund Pike and David Tennant spend much of the conversation on the small humiliations that can linger: hearing one’s own voice, spotting an unflattering picture, or realizing the shoes or blazer are off.
A relaxed end of series wrap that turns backstage chatter into something lightly revealing.
This bonus episode closes the series with Georgia and the host looking back at the guests and the moments that stuck. It starts with light banter and then shifts into writing, a book in progress, a screenplay that has finally picked up again, and the plain work of keeping a…
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Rosamund Pike tells David Tennant that Gemini Advance can turn an academic paper or long interview into a podcast with AI voices, complete with “uh-huh” and “yeah,” and the pair even asks whether the process is environmentally costly.
Jameela Jamil says British agents told her to “stay in your fucking lane,” then a Mike Schur audition sent her from no acting experience to The Good Place with Ted Danson.
The hosts of The New Yorker's Critics at Large debut their show by dissecting Walter Isaacson's new biography of Elon Musk.
David Tennant and Georgia Tennant close the season by revisiting unseen moments from chats with Ben Schwartz, Jameela Jamil, Stanley Tucci, Rosamund Pike, Russell T.
David Tennant and Ben Schwartz spend much of the episode on comedy, childhood performance, and the mechanics of improvisation, with Schwartz describing how a single compliment at The Pit made him feel like he was “flying.” Schwartz says he avoided the college comedy team and the school musical because failure scared him, then traces his path through UCB, the intern role, and the team Hot Sauce with Adam Pally and Gil Ozaria.
The conversation opens with a grimly overblown true-crime ad.
Georgia Tennant arrives with notes, and David Tennant immediately turns that preparation into part of the joke.
Stanley Tucci joins David Tennant after both have just come from a kids' Christmas show.
David Tennant opens the chat by getting the room, the microphones, and the jokes properly in place.
David Tennant welcomes Celia Imrie for a conversation that starts with easy rapport and a bit of self-mockery.