River Cartwright
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Sep 13, 2026
Zara HeddermanGUEST
Yeah, but, um, the team are back.
Zara HeddermanGUEST
You know, Jack Lowden's, River Cartwright, still trying to get out of, uh, Slow, Slow Hor- Slow Horse, um, to kind of get back with his MI5 agents.
Zara HeddermanGUEST
Um, one thing that was different, though, about this season is that there's a new showrunner, Gabby Chiappe.
Zara HeddermanGUEST
Uh, so Will Smith, he has left after-
Mark McManusGUEST
Yeah
AJ BlackHOST
... is playing, who plays obviously River Cartwright in-
Mark McManusGUEST
Yeah
AJ BlackHOST
... um, Slow Horses, who is the Bond of that show.
SeanHOST
And the show centers around this agent who's new to Slow House.
SeanHOST
River Cartwright is his name.
SeanHOST
Agent River Cartwright.
SeanHOST
And he fucks up this really high-profile training exercise in an airport.
SeanHOST
He ends up, like...
Jack GashHOST
That's quite a slide.
Jack GashHOST
A weirder one was seeing River Cartwright from Slow Horses turn into Sauron.
Jack GashHOST
Thinking how badly did MI5 go that he was fired from Slow Horses, had to become the Dark Lord as an alternate occupation.
Jack GashHOST
I think he's only
Trash MouthHOST
the behind the scenes yeah exactly love her character
KatHOST
yeah um we have uh river cartwright who's our other main character um i love river so much he is The grandson of a former MI5 agent who also happened to work with Jackson Lamb, we find out.
KatHOST
What was his name? I can't remember.
KatHOST
David Cartwright.
KatHOST
Grandson of David Cartwright.
KatHOST
Yep.
Trash MouthHOST
River Cartwright.
KatHOST
Yes.
Joanna RobinsonHOST
So yeah, one of the Jacks.
Joanna RobinsonHOST
Wouldn't it be weird if you get to play River Cartwright and James Bond?
Rob MahoneyHOST
It'd be really exciting.
Rob MahoneyHOST
Yeah.
Kyle NaranyaHOST
He's a broken human being, and he has to be in order to do all of the things that he does.
Kyle NaranyaHOST
And Jack Loudon as River Cartwright in Slow Horses has shown us all of those aspects of him as an actor when he's fully in his MI5 mode.
Kyle NaranyaHOST
He is James Bond.
Kyle NaranyaHOST
When we see him do things he doesn't want to do, we've seen the brokenness to him as a character with his relationship with his dad and his relationship with...
Amanda DobbinsHOST
[laughs]
Sean FennesseyHOST
I'm really battling myself here because on one hand, like his performance as River Cartwright is excellent.
Sean FennesseyHOST
The next season of Slow Horses is fantastic.
Sean FennesseyHOST
It's, that's coming out in September.
Dan HadleyHOST
He is, to be fair, I've been and looked him up, Andy.
Dan HadleyHOST
He's an award-winning Scottish actor, best known, just as Ian says, for playing River Cartwright in the Apple TV show Slow Horses.
Dan HadleyHOST
Not seen that yet, but apparently that performance, alongside Gary Oldman, has got him a lot of widespread recognition, nominations for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe.
Dan HadleyHOST
Do you watch that?
Suzie MillerGUEST
Like, I don't understand this logic.
Mick HerronGUEST
There was one moment where they were talking through a scene with me, and they said, "Oh, and, and this is the point where Jackson now will say to River Cartwright," blah, whatever the line was.
Mick HerronGUEST
And I went, "That doesn't, doesn't sound like something-
Suzie MillerGUEST
It's in the book.
32 MINS LATER
Mick HerronGUEST
At the time I was in the writers' room for that, it had been 10, uh, I'd written it 10 years previously, and they knew it a bit better than I did.
Natasha MitchellHOST
Yeah.
Mick HerronGUEST
[laughs] There was one moment where they were talking through a scene with me, and they said, "Oh, and, and this is the point where Jackson now will say to River Cartwright," blah, whatever the line was.
Mick HerronGUEST
And I went, "That doesn't, doesn't sound like something-
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