Merman’s debut podcast People Who Knew Me is a powerful, fictional series for the BBC, exploring themes of identity, reinvention and the emotional weight of long-held secrets.
The story’s protagonist is Connie Prynne, a woman who fakes her own death during the 9/11 attacks to escape an unhappy marriage and start a new life in California. Years later, facing a cancer diagnosis, she is forced to reckon with the past she left behind, including a daughter who doesn’t know she exists and a husband who believes she’s dead.
Starring Rosamund Pike, Hugh Laurie and exec’d by Sharon Horgan, the story is told through intimate voice memos and raw conversations, offering a haunting and emotional narrative about the lies we live with, the people we hurt, and the hope for redemption.
