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🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Maigret.
Actor Benjamin Wainwright is no stranger to MASTERPIECE audiences, having appeared in Endeavour, World on Fire, and Unforgotten. Today, he joins the podcast to talk about his latest MASTERPIECE role as the lead actor in a new production of Maigret. In this conversation, we discuss stepping into the long line of Maigrets, and how his character balances solving crime with his personal duty to the social contract.
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| 0:28.5 | Chief Inspector Jules May Gray isn't interested in playing by the rules, nor just solving |
| 0:33.5 | crimes. |
| 0:34.7 | He's far more motivated by following his intuition and solving people. However |
| 0:40.0 | unconventional, his approach and personal code of ethics, May Gray's impressive track record speaks |
| 0:45.9 | for itself. Where are you going to go? How would I know? I sacrificed so much moving here. |
| 0:53.7 | And then she was irrational. The accusations. She was not a |
| 0:58.3 | well woman. I'd stick around if I were you. Why should I? Do you want your face all over the |
| 1:06.0 | TV? A lot of people like me coming after you. Stick around. |
| 1:15.7 | Despite having his hands full solving some of Paris's most dangerous crimes, |
| 1:20.6 | Megre is haunted by dreams of his childhood, a church in his village, |
| 1:22.6 | and memories of his late father. |
| 1:25.4 | By the time episode six rolls around, |
| 1:28.1 | May Gray reclaims his roots in Saint-Fiiacra to solve a crime decades in the making. |
| 1:32.0 | Megre? |
| 1:33.5 | You decided to show up? |
| 1:35.9 | Well, you needn't have bothered. |
| 1:37.6 | I can handle things here. |
| 1:39.8 | That's not what you said last night. |
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