David Harewood: "I was not 'black' enough, I didn't know where I fit in"

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

David Harewood is one of Britain's finest actors, but fame found him late in life after he was cast as CIA Director David Estes in smash-hit show Homeland.

In this fascinating episode of Full Disclosure, join James O'Brien as he takes a tour around David's life, from his early childhood, racist abuse from theatre reviewers, his psychosis diagnosis and how he's become first black president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada).

This episode deals with issues of race and racism and strong language is used from the outset and throughout.

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1:02.2	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
1:05.6	Hello, it's James here.
1:07.0	I just wanted to pop up and say that this episode of full Disclosure deals with themes around race, racism and discrimination.
1:13.9	So strong language is used throughout the episode.
1:17.5	Enjoy.
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