For Jonathan's pal Toby Stephens, acting is very much the family business. His mother is Dame Maggie Smith, and his father was bravura actor and legendary hellraiser Sir Robert Stephens. Here he speaks with great frankness, insight and humour about his parents and the influence they had on his own path towards a brilliantly successful career on stage and screen. He shares memories of failing to recognise the actress playing Peter Pan the first time he saw a play (it was his mum), discovering a passion for drama through Wilfred Owen’s great anti-war poem, and seeing his dad reduce an entire audience to tears with his rendition of King Lear. We also hear further tales of the dark arts of Laurence Olivier, something of a recurring theme on this podcast ...

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