I'm Alan Alder and this is Clear In Vivid conversations about connecting and communicating.

Welcome to our preview of shows to come.

These are coming attractions of Clear In Vivid to a device near you.

It better be not too far from you where you won't hear it.

Graham Shedden and I are really delighted with the lineup we have.

We have some wonderful people, don't we, Graham?

We certainly do.

And a nice picture, I think.

We always try to make sure that each season has a balance of different topics, different

sorts of people, different conversations.

And I think we've achieved it this time around.

And you know what I notice is that at the beginning of every show I talk about how the

conversations are about communicating and relating.

And sometimes the connection to communicating and relating is so tenuous that it may not

seem to be about that.

For instance, when I talk with fellow actors, there is the question of communicating the

play to the audience.

But the way the actors communicate with each other is also interesting in and of itself.

And it's also a model for how we communicate with one another out in the real world, I

think.

And I think that's borne out by our guest this season, Helen Mirren, who is such a wonderful

actress, and she came from the stage the same way I did.

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