The show’s drama revolves around the clash of cultures (although it’s hard not to imagine any mortal not clashing with cannibalistic sausages). “He left on an expedition and never came back, so my character is trying to find him and launching his own expedition.” When the two meet, thanks to Clement’s voice acting skills, it is, surprisingly, not all that confusing. “He’s leading an expedition to where his uncle, a defamed botanist, disappeared,” said Clement. Clement also plays Bertie Banks, Joseph’s infamous uncle. While on his mission, he encounters an entertaining cast of unlikely characters, ranging from cheesemongers to a cannibalistic sausage. His journey is equal parts Around the World in 80 Days, 10,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Journey to the Center of the Earth, and a sort of terrifying Dr Seuss set on a sailing ship in an alternate reality. We’d have to climb a mess of hills to make it sound like we were miles from somewhere. “On most radio plays, you’d just be in a studio and you’d do it all there and just read it out in real time, but this one, if we’re in a carriage, we would be in a van with the engine off rolling down a hill to re-create the atmosphere of a carriage. “We would go to locations and they had a real big focus on creating the sound environment,” said Clement. While Clement believes that for an actor, podcasts and radio are a bit easy (“You don’t need to worry about what you look like,” he said), he noted that this one was work-intensive because the creators placed a premium on capturing authentic soundscapes, something almost unheard of in audio productions. “If they had asked me to play music, I would have, but they got me to do more than that.”
“I would have done anything they were doing,” Clement said.
As an actor, it’s not that different, but when you’re creating something, it’s terrific.”Ĭlement stars in the series, which was created by writer/director Duncan Sarkies, a frequent collaborator with Clement musician James Milne (AKA Lawrence Arabia) and artist Stephen Templer. You don’t have to have a big budget or anything, so it’s really quite freeing. You can create anything you want to you just have to describe it. I wrote radio commercials and I loved the freedom you’d have. “One of the first things the Conchords ever did was a radio show for the BBC, and I did love doing that,” he said. The New Zealand comedian and actor, who is best known as one-half of the musical group Flight of the Conchords – in which his trademark deep voice harmonizes with that of Bret McKenzie – is returning to the medium after years away thanks to a new podcast, which recently launched on Howl.
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