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Arc is home to premium cinematic audio drama series — sharp, funny, and emotionally honest stories about the moments that change us. Series 1 is People Who Knew Me (2023): Emily Morris uses 9/11 to fake her own death and run away to start a new life in California as Connie Prynne. Starring Rosamund Pike, Hugh Laurie, Kyle Soller, Isabella Sermon and Alfred Enoch. Written by Daniella Isaacs, adapted from the book by Kim Hooper. Series 2 is Intimacy (coming 22 July 2026): Intimacy coordinator Liza Simmons gets her big break when offered a job on a major movie, only to discover that the director is a person from her past who ruined her life. Starring Lena Headey, Hannah Waddingham, Alison Steadman, Thaddea Graham, Matthew Broome and Tom Goodman-Hill. Both series are Merman productions, with executive producer Sharon Horgan.

  1. Episode 1

    Introducing... People Who Knew Me

    Coming 23rd May 2023... Emily Morris uses 9/11 to fake her own death and run away to start a new life in California as Connie Prynne. Fourteen years later, now with a teenage daughter by her side, Connie is diagnosed with breast cancer. She will be forced to confront her past so that her daughter will not be left on her own if she does not survive. She must decide how to explain her lies, her secrets, her selfish decisions – and ultimately her ‘widowed’ husband. Everything she thought she had fled from when she pretended to die in New York. Starring Rosamund Pike and Hugh Laurie, Kyle Soller and Alfred Enoch. The first audio drama from the makers of Bad Sisters, People Who Knew Me is a 10-part series, written and directed by Daniella Isaacs, adapted from the book by Kim Hooper. Written and Directed by Daniella Isaacs Adapted from the original novel and Consulting Produced by Kim Hooper Produced by Joshua Buckingham Executive Producers for Merman: Sharon Horgan, Faye Dorn, Clelia Mountford, Kira Carstensen, Seicha Turnbull and Brenna Rae Eckerson Executive Producer for eOne: Jacqueline Sacerio, Co-Executive Producer: Carey Burch Nelson Commissioning Editor: Dylan Haskins Assistant Commissioner for the BBC: Lorraine Okuefuna Additional Commissioning support for the BBC Natasha Johansson and Harry Robinson Production Executive: Gareth Coulam Evans Production Manager: Sarah Lawson Casting Director: Lauren Evans Audio Production & Post-Production by SoundNode Supervising Dialogue Recordist & Editor: Daniel Jaramillo Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Design & Mix: Martin Schulz Music composed by Max Perryment Additional Dialogue Recording: David Crane, Martin Jilek Assistant Dialogue Recordists: Jack Cook, Giancarlo Granata Additional Dialogue Editing: Marco Toca Head of Production: Rebecca Kerley Production Accountant: Lianna Meering Finance Director: Jackie Sidey Legal and Business Affairs: Mark Rogers at Media Wizards Dialect Coach for Rosamund Pike: Carla Meyer Read in: Hannah Moorish Stills Photographer: May Robson Artwork: Mirjami Qin Artwork Photographer: Sibel Ameti Additional thanks to: Emily Peska, Caitlin Stegemoller, Sam Woolf, Charly Clive, Ellie White, Ellen Robertson, Kate Phillips, Ed Davis, Ciarán Owens, Jonathan Schey, Daniel Raggett, Jason Phipps and Charlotte Ritchie A Merman / Mermade production for BBC Radio 5 Live & BBC Sounds

    2 min
  2. Introducing… Intimacy

    Episode 13

    Introducing… Intimacy

    Coming 22nd July 2026 Intimacy coordinator Liza Simmons is very good at her job. She is a safe space, a warrior for consent, the person actors rely on when scenes get complicated. Her personal life, however, is anything but safe. A former actor and divorced single mum, Liza is drowning in debt to her ex-husband Michael and barely holding things together. So, when her agent offers her a job on a glossy, big-budget modern adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, shooting on a Greek island, she has no choice but to say yes. It should be a dream job, but Liza arrives on set only to discover that the director is a person from her past who ruined her life. What happened between them begins to infiltrate Liza’s present and future. On set, Liza is tasked with guiding two young actors through increasingly intimate, emotionally charged scenes. Bunny, a rising star hungry for validation. Alex, a nepo baby with something to prove. But as Liza tries to toe the line between performance and reality, she begins to suspect the real drama is happening off camera. Because the director Gary does not play by the rules. And neither, it turns out, does anyone else. Outside of the production, Liza is being pulled in every direction. Her ex-husband is escalating demands from home. Her teenage daughter Ruby needs her. And then, without warning, a big part of Liza’s personal life arrives on set, blowing her carefully controlled world wide open. What starts as a high-end production quickly turns into something far more volatile. Boundaries are crossed. Power shifts. Secrets begin to surface. And Liza finds herself increasingly isolated amongst a crew who misunderstand her role and question her authority on set. An unexpected “hiatus day” gives the cast and crew permission to let loose. But instead of release, it only accelerates the chaos. Old histories resurface. Accusations are made. But when Liza finally confronts Gary about what really happened between them in the past, their conversation is not as private as she thinks. As the shoot begins to unravel, Liza is forced into an impossible position. And when everything finally spills out into the open, she discovers the biggest risk is not losing the job, but what she could lose in herself, if she stays silent. A Merman Television Scotland production

    2 min

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Arc is home to premium cinematic audio drama series — sharp, funny, and emotionally honest stories about the moments that change us. Series 1 is People Who Knew Me (2023): Emily Morris uses 9/11 to fake her own death and run away to start a new life in California as Connie Prynne. Starring Rosamund Pike, Hugh Laurie, Kyle Soller, Isabella Sermon and Alfred Enoch. Written by Daniella Isaacs, adapted from the book by Kim Hooper. Series 2 is Intimacy (coming 22 July 2026): Intimacy coordinator Liza Simmons gets her big break when offered a job on a major movie, only to discover that the director is a person from her past who ruined her life. Starring Lena Headey, Hannah Waddingham, Alison Steadman, Thaddea Graham, Matthew Broome and Tom Goodman-Hill. Both series are Merman productions, with executive producer Sharon Horgan.

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