Jun 8, 2026 · 8 min · 8 segments
Freya puts listener questions to actor and author Hannah Murray, whose memoir *The Make-Believe* is out now from Penguin. Hannah answers questions from listeners about her time on *Skins* — including…
Hannah MurrayGuest
Freya BromleyHost
There's, there's definitely a moment that kind of came to mind immediately, and it's, it's more of a behind-the-scenes moment.
But it was very early on, I think it was in the first few weeks of filming, and I was so over the moon to have gotten this part and to be suddenly, like, on this TV set, and I was really, really so getting on so well with the rest of the cast, and we were becoming really, really good friends.
Um, but often, I think also 'cause none of us were old enough to legally drive.
So we had, so they had to put the car on, like, a low loader and, like, drive it around so it looked like it was driving through.
They kind of let us sit in the car to, like, take it back to where it needed to be, and we were driving through the center of Bristol, which was also where I lived and had grown up.
And I remember it really vividly, like, the wi- it was, like, a hot summer's day, and the windows were open, and there was this, like, gorgeous breeze blowing in.
And I was with this, like, group of young actors who I was sort of falling in love with platonically.
And the song, [laughs] the song that was playing on the car radio was Lipstick by Alicia Dixon.
And I just felt in that moment, like, I felt really cool for the maybe the first ...
I felt, like, legitimately, like, I'm living a really cool, brilliant life right now, and this moment is everything to me.
There's, there's definitely a moment that kind of came to mind immediately, and it's, it's more of a behind-the-scenes moment.
But it was very early on, I think it was in the first few weeks of filming, and I was so over the moon to have gotten this part and to be suddenly, like, on this TV set, and I was really, really so getting on so well with the rest of the cast, and we were becoming really, really good friends.
Um, but often, I think also 'cause none of us were old enough to legally drive.
So we had, so they had to put the car on, like, a low loader and, like, drive it around so it looked like it was driving through.
They kind of let us sit in the car to, like, take it back to where it needed to be, and we were driving through the center of Bristol, which was also where I lived and had grown up.
And I remember it really vividly, like, the wi- it was, like, a hot summer's day, and the windows were open, and there was this, like, gorgeous breeze blowing in.
And I was with this, like, group of young actors who I was sort of falling in love with platonically.
And the song, [laughs] the song that was playing on the car radio was Lipstick by Alicia Dixon.
And I just felt in that moment, like, I felt really cool for the maybe the first ...
I felt, like, legitimately, like, I'm living a really cool, brilliant life right now, and this moment is everything to me.
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