Arc
Arc is a podcast featuring premium cinematic audio drama series. The first series, People Who Knew Me (2023), follows Emily Morris who fakes her death during 9/11 to start a new life in California. The second series, Intimacy (coming 2026), centers on an intimacy coordinator whose big break on a major movie leads her to confront a person from her past. Both series are produced by Merman with executive producer Sharon Horgan.
Episodes
People Who Knew Me: 1. Hello LA
New episodes released on Tuesday and Thursday. If you’re in the UK, listen first on BBC Sounds.Connie Prynne lives a small life with her daughter, Claire in Los Angeles. But when she is diagnosed with breast cancer she is forced to start addressing her past, a life she hasn’t told Claire or anyone about, a New York life, Emily’s life; a mess of a failed marriage, an affair and an accidental pregna
People Who Knew Me: 2. Fettuccine Alfredo
New episodes released on Tuesday and Thursday. If you’re in the UK, listen first on BBC Sounds.Connie starts chemotherapy and tries to ignore the advances of fellow patient, Paul, as she delves back to her past to try to figure out where it all went wrong with Emily’s husband Drew. She recalls them meeting at NYU in 1993, their whirlwind romance, her choosing Drew over Gabe, their marriage and boh
People Who Knew Me: 3. Adult Bob
New episodes released on Tuesday and Thursday. If you’re in the UK, listen first on BBC Sounds.Claire shaves Connie’s hair as the chemotherapy takes hold. The loss of her hair takes Connie straight back to her life in New York, to Emily's new 'work haircut' and first job, a job she was forced to take so Drew could fulfil his dream of owning his own restaurant. That one deciding coin toss, the cata
People Who Knew Me: 4. Jack Daniels
New episodes released on Tuesday and Thursday. If you’re in the UK, listen first on BBC Sounds.Claire takes Connie wig-shopping as a surprise for being halfway through her cancer treatment. Trying on a wig provokes some painful memories of Connie's life back in New York. A friendship with her sassy work colleague highlights the failings of her marriage, further compounded by Drew's restaurant fall
People Who Knew Me: 5. Heimlich Maneuver
Connie and Claire attend a cancer support session with Paul, which causes Connie to relive painful memories of her life in New York trying to balance her work life and unhappy marriage with being a care-giver to Drew's sick Mom. The pressure of Connie's past builds, exploding out of her in a desperate confession.CreditsConnie / Emily - ROSAMUND PIKE
Drew - KYLE SOLLER
Claire - ISABELLA SERMON
Gabe
People Who Knew Me: 6. Non-Monogamy
New episodes released on Tuesday and Thursday. If you’re in the UK, listen first on BBC Sounds.Connie starts from the very beginning, detailing all the building pressures and disappointments that drove her to run away from her life as Emily in New York, and start afresh as Connie in LA. Over a few drinks with Paul, these truths come flooding out, along with all the lies she has told to keep her id
People Who Knew Me: 7. Daddy
New episodes released on Tuesday and Thursday. If you’re in the UK, listen first on BBC Sounds.Connie continues retelling her story to Paul, reliving the trauma of September 11th, and the events that lead up to her faking her own death. Hidden away in Gabe's apartment, watching the events of 9/11 unfold on TV, she turns off her phone and never looks back. Paul thinks she is brave enough to tell Cl
People Who Knew Me: 8. Tidal Wave
New episodes released on Tuesday and Thursday. If you’re in the UK, listen first on BBC Sounds.Bolstered by her revelation to Paul, Connie takes Claire to the beach to tell her the truth about her Dad. Overwhelmed by the shocking discovery, Claire runs away for the night without telling Connie. Connie finds Drew on Facebook, and tells him she is alive and has a daughter. She wakes up from her mast
People Who Knew Me: 9. Coward
New episode released on Thursday. If you’re in the UK, listen first on BBC Sounds.Drew calls Connie in utter disbelief that she is alive. On confirming that Claire really is his daughter, they establish a weekly phone call getting to know each other. Feeling ever distanced, Connie starts spending more time with Paul, finally agreeing on a date.CreditsConnie / Emily - ROSAMUND PIKE
Drew - KYLE SOLL
People Who Knew Me: 10. Goodbye NYC
Realising there might not be another opportunity, Connie and Claire embark on their road trip, stopping in New York to finally meet Drew.CreditsConnie / Emily - ROSAMUND PIKE
Drew - KYLE SOLLER
Claire - ISABELLA SERMON
Gabe - ALFRED ENOCH
Jade - JESSICA DARROW
Marni/Jenny - DANIELLA ISAACS
Dr Richter / Reporter - CHARLES HAGERTY
and HUGH LAURIE as PAUL
Additional voices:
PIPPA WINSLOW, NANCY CRANE
People Who Knew Me: 11. Bonus
In this bonus episode of People Who Knew Me, Writer and Director Daniella Isaacs revisits the series and its existential themes with cast members Rosamund Pike, Kyle Soller and Isabella Sermon. They discuss what captivated them about the story of Emily faking her own death in 9/11, their own experience with truth and lies, and how this fuelled their performance.Credits
Connie / Emily - ROSAMUND PI
Intimacy: 1. Did You Just Dribble On Me?
Intimacy coordinator Liza Simmons lands a major film job on a Greek island shoot. When she finds out who the director is, a shared past resurfaces that could derail everything.In 'Intimacy' Episode 1:
Lena Headey as Liza
Tia Bannon as Ruby
Hannah Waddingham as Lou
Alison Steadman as Mum
Simon Kassianides as Rob
Thaddea Graham as Kate
Tom Goodman-Hill as Gary Additional voices were:
Dempsey Bo
Intimacy: 2. I Like Being Naked
Intimacy coordinator Liza arrives on set and meets the cast of a provocative new adaptation. As she starts work, she must quickly establish boundaries but old tensions resurface.In 'Intimacy' Episode 2 :
Lena Headey as Liza
Hannah Waddingham as Lou
Thaddea Graham as Kate
Maisie Williams as Bunny
Matthew Broome as Alex
Tia Bannon as Ruby
Alison Steadman as Mum
Tom Goodman-Hill as Gary Additi
People Who Knew Me: Trailer
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 decisio
Intimacy: Trailer
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
