Project: Torchwood: 2018-09-30

Five weeks is a long month, and September was indeed a gruelling time working through a lot of articles, researching and reviewing more than we could fit into this issue. Having found a copy of Sarah Pinborough’s novel Behind Her Eyes at a local table top sale recently, I’ve been enjoying some quiet times to read – however not read enough to write a review this month.

One exciting piece of news happened on the 26^th of September this year, when Guy Adams announced to friends on social media that he was now engaged to fellow writer AK Benedict. Congratulations to you both from all of us here at PT! Special thanks for the permission of the photograph Guy!

Tony has been mad busy making up for the reviews he was unable to add to last month’s Issue, so do look out for those.

Hands up if you have been glued to the television screens this past month watching BBC’s new drama series Bodyguard with Keeley Hawes. Absolutely fantastic episodes and edge of the seat watching. So much for putting it on in the background. I knew I’d seen Nadia before on the train but for the life of me I couldn’t remember where, but when I began the research I laughed out loud. Of course, I’d seen her before, it was Rani from SJA!!!

Who has been reading the web toon series Acursian? We’ll be putting our own review in next month’s issue as didn’t have enough time to put it together for this one.

If you would like to join our team and write reviews for us, do please get in touch, we’d love to hear from you.

Welcome to Issue 63 – WATNOW Sleeper

Djak

Big Finish Reviews+ Sixth Doctor: Fortunes of War by Tony J Fyler

Read by Colin Baker.

Tony goes back to the front.

Fortunes of War is the third and – no spoilers, but probably final – part of a story which has taken three Doctors at different times in their lives to solve. As such, if you haven’t heard both of the earlier parts, Men of War and Horrors of War, you’re going to be just a little lost coming into this one.

The first two parts were read by former companion actors Peter Purves and Katy Manning, but neither of them were written from the point of view of those companions, though Steven Taylor and Jo Grant were accompanying the First and Third Doctors respectively. Here we’re blessed (general rule of thumb – this man’s presence on a project is always a blessing) by having Colin Baker read the final part of the story, and as such, we’re allowed a particular treat – a story written from the Doctor’s perspective, and narrated in the first person, in his voice.

If you react to that with a ‘So what?’ you’re missing the point. The Doctor we see on screen is almost always illuminated for us through the prism of his companions, and it depends how well they understand what’d really going on in that confounded brain of his how good an illumination that is – at the risk of infuriating the Classic Who fans, look at Amy Pond explaining the Doctor’s choice of where to stand in Asylum of the Daleks and Clara Oswald searching for a Doctor in the haystack of history for some of the best in over fifty years. But here, we’re right there in his mind, which means when the Sixth Doctor, now in rather more control of his Tardis than either of his predecessors, decides to return one final time to the trenches of World War I, we see him hesitate before opening the door, and hear him admit to us what he would never admit to a companion or the world – his trepidation at what he knows he has to do once the doors open, once events are set in motion.

What he has to do is put things right. Time has been bubbling in all the wrong places and in deadly, horrible ways in the trenches, firstly infesting the mud with the lifetimes of soldiers who ‘should’ be dead, and secondly through a kind of possession in a field hospital, with soldiers dying again and again, like a ghastly precursor of a great and terrible time war. This time when the Doctor goes back, he has to put it right, aware as he is of the consequences his actions will have.

Consequences?

Consequences, because if time is put right, the friends he made on his previous visits, Captain Mark Steadman and Nurse Annie Grantham, will have to die. Can the Doctor knowingly condemn them to death for the sake of the bigger picture, the web of time and his solemn duty as a Time Lord?

It’s a story that’s set up to tug the heartstrings right from the off, and it does that more than somewhat, especially when the source of the temporal disturbance is revealed, showing in turn the utterly ambivalent nature of the universe – it doesn’t care who lives or dies, only what is ‘right.’ Only what happens.

Baker’s performance here feels like a later, off-screen Sixth Doctor, one whose flame of moral outrage has grown a little circumspect, if not in all circumstances, then at least when faced with the impossible dilemmas not only of the First World War, but with the tangling of time and the pull of duty and compassion. What ultimately emerges is a less self-satisfied Doctor than the on-screen version ever had the chance to be, but one who faces a very ‘New Who’ dilemma, and argues it through with himself in our hearing, before proving he is the same person he’s always been, and always will be – he is the Doctor, with all that that entails. Never cruel. Never cowardly. Always clever. Always kind.

Colin Baker as an audio Doctor has been wowing audiences for more than a decade now, most especially at Big Finish. Justin Richards here gives him a chance to be perhaps more New Who than he’s ever been, and Baker eats it up with a spoon. The result is a release that you’ll devour eagerly too, for all its moral and temporal complexity, but ultimately for Baker in one of many moments of ultimate audio triumph as the Sixth Doctor, that flower of moral outrage at things that are wrong infused with an equal flood of compassion for ordinary people, and both tearing him apart, and forcing him to go to places inside himself that are uncomfortable, and do things he probably shouldn’t do. It’s a remarkable performance that’ll sweep your emotions ahead of it, and a fitting conclusion to a story that has at several points confronted us with the challenges of being the Doctor. Baker and his Sixth Doctor give us a lesson in what sets the Doctor apart from every other would-be meddler in time and space. You have to be the cleverest life form in the room, absolutely. But you also have to be the kindest.

Big Finish Reviews+ First Doctor Adventures, Vol 2 by Tony J Fyler

Tony looks better in black and white.

When you have a core cast of four people, two of whom have sadly passed away, and you’re making new stories for an entirely re-cast version of the original, tone matters.

Of course, tone always matters, but particularly when there are four new voices in the roles of four much-watched and highly-studied characters, tone reeeeally matters.

Tone is a thing the First Doctor Adventures, with David Bradley re-inventing the First Doctor, has been very particular to get right. Breathe. Relax. You’re very firmly in First doctor territory here.

What we mean by tone of course is that there’s a difference between First Doctor stories and Fourth Doctor stories, and a different difference between First Doctor stories and Twelfth Doctor stories. The kinds of stories that they told in the First Doctor’s era almost feel like a time capsule now. They did a lot of ‘evil aliens being mean to nice people, let’s defeat them’ stories, to be sure, but there was a distinct sense also that in the First Doctor’s time, the science fiction could twang off on an entirely random philosophical angle which later ages wouldn’t allow, because of all the running and shouting that had to be done. And of course the First Doctor’s time is the golden age of the ‘pure historical’ story, where there was no alien threat at all, merely the events of history themselves in which our heroes got mixed up.

There’s one of each kind of story in this set, and that’s what reinforces the absolutely unique First Doctor flavour of the set. Just as stories like The Aztecs, Marco Polo, The Web Planet and The Keys of Marinus could only be First Doctor stories, so too could The Invention Of Death and The Barbarians And The Samurai, by John Dorney and Andrew Smith respectively. All of which of course helps sell the reality of the re-voiced Tardis crew, who this time out seem to have stopped trying to be their TV counterparts, and started just being them, leading to a more convincing – and therefore involving experience all round.

The Invention of Death is an experimental mind-melter, which reminds us of The Fragile Yellow Arc Of Fragrance (Google it, or search for it on the Big Finish website), in that it’s sci-fi with a very strong sense of difference from everything that’s familiar to us. It’s like The Twilight Zone with aliens or Black Mirror with charm, and that means you listen hungrily to the full length of the story, even though if you dare to pause, you can sketch out where it goes. The point is it’s so very interesting, conceptually, that you want to find out how it gets where you think it’s going. The Tardis crew land on a planet where there are androgynous, semi-morphous people, whose life is mostly taken up with playing games. No sexes, no houses, no sickness, no want, no need…no death. No reproduction.

All could and should be well in such a world, of course, but they have their games – which they play by hurling razor-sharp javelins at each other. There are no consequences if any of them get hit – they self-repair quickly and go on with the game.

They like their games.

When there are strangers in their midst, they want to share their games with them.

See what I mean? You can sort of see where it’s going fairly early on, but it will still take a turn or two to surprise you. By bringing the very concept of ‘death’ to this world, and therefore the concept of healing, the Tardis crew set a miniature revolution in motion – things can be learned in a society where people die. Knowledge becomes a burning need in a society like that. But someone understands that all too well, and starts spreading death among the citizens. Can the Doctor and the fledgling scientists of Ashtallah find a cure for death, stop the killer, and introduce the notion of reproduction to a world on which it has never before been necessary?

John Dorney’s script is classic and does the thing that’s most coherently the province of early Doctor Who – it dares to imagine the entirely unlike, not just extrapolating from life as we know it, but in the truest terms of science fiction, asking a big what-if – in this case, what if there was no death, and never had been?

David Bradley…

OK, let’s put this out there. David Bradley was a truly masterful William Hartnell in An Adventure In Space And Time. He was as good a First Doctor as he was allowed to be on screen in Twice Upon A time.

David Bradley has found his home as the First Doctor at Big Finish.

What’s more, all three companions feel like viable alternative-dimension versions of the characters we know this time out, all helping to bolster the reality of what you’re listening to, and make it feel like part of the run of adventures you know. In story terms, it’s also true to the First Doctor era by giving almost everyone something to do, but leaving Susan something of a third wheel as Barbara’s injured, Ian’s on a quest and the Doctor’s involved with the scientific shenanigans of a world without death. It might not give Claudia Grant the best of deals in terms of story-threads, but The Invention Of Death is a solid slice of highly inventive, speculative and philosophically searching science fiction which holds true to the tone of the televised First Doctor.

Susan typically faired rather better in the ‘reasons for being in the drama’ stakes when the story was a pure historical, and so she does here in Andrew Smith’s gorgeously researched and sumptuously rendered The Barbarians And The Samurai. What we’ve got here is an abbbbbsolutely nail-on-head perfect First Doctor historical, but with perhaps a pinch or two of modern spice to prick up your tastebuds. Finding themselves in 19^th century Japan, during a period when no Westerners were permitted in the country, our heroes have an immediate problem – and one where their apparent ethnicity is an issue (a rare one for pure historicals, to be sure, but still one that anchors the story in the reality and the nature of the times). Finding themselves split up, the Doctor and Barbara are taken to the palace of the local daimyo (a mayor or sheriff, but with a personal army of kickass Samurai to do his bidding), while Ian and Susan are forced to hide out, and are rescued from a vicious Samurai attack by a so-called ‘peasant’ who kicks way more ass than a simple peasant should be able to. On the road to getting the team back together there are palace intrigues, mysterious men in masks, double- and possibly triple-dealing plots to break the rules of exclusion between Japan and the West, a seemingly doomed love story and a massive ‘how the heck are we going to get out of this one?’ late-game cliffhanger that forces the Doctor and Ian to turn scientific sorcerer. Smith is a master at multi-stranded drama, and this might even be considered a jewel in his already intensely impressive crown, because he balances all the elements here on a Samurai blade – the pacing is fast, the action plentiful, the intrigue elements believable without requiring anyone to be stupid to make them work, and the tapestry he creates is rich and broad, meaning you feel like you’re listening to a proper Hartnell six-parter, without it ever feeling overstretched (because of course, it’s actually just a four-parter). It’s an immersive, full-on historical that really can hold its head up alongside the likes of Marco Polo, The Aztecs and The Crusade.

Bottom line, if you’re a fan of the kind of Doctor Who that really only existed within the first three years of the programme’s history, you need to listen to this – the cast have gelled well together, the scripts are highly polished, and the overall experience is of slipping in a DVD of one of the classic black-and-white adventures, but without the budget restraints that might have lessened their visual impact. Go back and travel with the first Tardis crew again, for adventures that are broad and beautiful in a less canon-cluttered, more anything-goes universe.

Articles Where Are They Now? Sleeper Cast by DJ Forrest

Broadcast 2008

Written by James Moran

Directed by Colin Teague

Sleeper episode introduced us to a new threat to Planet Earth - Sleepers. Living amongst humans, made to think and feel like humans until all information was exhausted. Beth lived a happy life with Mike until the fateful night when two burglars broke into their home and got more than they bargained for. Up until this point, Beth was none the wiser of her special abilities, but the stronger her abilities grew, the further from Mike she would become, until, accepting that there was no possibility of living like a 'proper' human being, she sacrificed herself while holding Gwen Cooper hostage, in the Hub.

Nikki Amuka-Bird

'Beth'

'There's no such thing as aliens.'

Beth was unaware of her Sleeper Agent self until it began to kick in under duress when Jack Harkness applied the Mind Probe device. When the team saw her arm open up, Jack knew that they were in trouble. The arm machinery acted as a communication device to all other agents, and when Beth was taken off the grid, it awoke the rest of the Sleeper Agents who began to put their plans into operation.

Since the episode aired in 2008, Nikki has played Det. Supt Gaynor Jenkins for two episodes of Silent Witness in 2010, playing Simone Campbell for 2 episodes in 2005. Played Samantha Willis for five episodes of Survivors from 2008 - 2010. Played DCI Erin Gray for 5 episodes of Luther from 2011 - 2013. Played Anna Jackson in Death in Paradise episode The Man with the Golden Gun in 2014, Anna in the TV series Lovesick, played Diomika Tsing in the film Jupiter Ascending in 2015. In the TV series Quarry played Ruth for 8 episodes. played Amadia Kalu QC in The Children Act in 2017.

Nikki played Helen Clay in Doctor Who episode Twice Upon a Time in 2017.

Played Grace Morgan for 6 episodes of detective series Hard Sun. Was an A&E consultant in the NHS film To Provide All People. Plays Mrs Steerforth in The Personal History of David Copperfield currently in Post Production (2019) and is currently filming Gold Digger playing Marsha, out in 2019.

Plays Tamasan on the Doctor Who Big Finish audio - The Eighth Doctor - The Time War 2 drama and plays the same character for another Eighth Doctor audio story by Big Finish - The Lords of Terror, part of The Time War series, plus Planet of the Ogrons, In the Garden of Death and Jonah.

Dyfed Potter

'Mike'

'Don't let the police take you. I'm not going to let you go. I don't care what it is. I don't care what... What was that? (Beth has stabbed Mike) What are you?'

Until the burglars broke into their home, Mike was unaware that his wife Beth was anything but human, so it came as a massive shock when she visited him in hospital and fatally wounded him. Most people just bring grapes!

After Torchwood episode Sleeper, Dyfed appeared only once more in 2008 as Dillon for Eastenders episode dated 19th September. I've found nothing online for Dyfed and can only assume he no longer works as an actor.

Doug Rollins

'David'

'It doesn't matter. You can't stop us. We know what your weakness is. We know who you are, Jack Harkness. We know all about you and Torchwood. We got a lot of information before you switched her off. You'll be factored into our plans.'

When Beth was taken off the grid, David’s other self was activated. He became a cold ruthless killer, taking out his wife with whom he’d been having a hearty conversation with prior, and then setting his sights upon Mr Grainger who was a connection he needed for the codes to a secret storage of ten nuclear warheads in a disused coal mine in the cliffs, sealed off in the 1940s, protected by the army.

Even after he stabbed Jack through the heart, it wasn’t enough to destroy the weapons, as soon as the force shield was deactivated, Jack factored a few bullets into his plans, then ran like hell as the bomb he’d removed from his arm, exploded.

Since playing the Sleeper agent in Torchwood, Doug Rollins has played only one other character in a television series - Colonel Patrick Dukes in the daytime medical drama Doctors in 2011, having played Rees Thomas in 2006.

Since then Doug has worked behind the camera as Casting for film short The Double Deal in 2014, Cinematographer for film short Fright Corner in 2017, Producer/co-producer of 2 shorts from 2014 - 2015, Writer of 6 Short films from 2010 - 2017 and Director of 12 Shorts from 2010 - 2017.

Claire Cage

'David's Wife'

'What is that? What's happened to your arm? Hey. Where are you going? David, you're scaring me. What are you doing? What's happening? Come back here. David.'

When you shout ‘Come back here, David’ to your husband who is suddenly acting out of character, you don’t expect him to return, only to snap your neck, do you?

Since Torchwood episode, Claire has played a series of credited and uncredited roles, from Fiona Grantham in Wire in the Blood, Mum in Life Bites, Submarine as the News Reporter, Sherlock in 2010 as Eddie's Neighbour (uncredited), Gina in Baker Boys, Kat's Mum in The Sparticle Mystery in 2011, Julia Hawke for two parter WIzards Vs Aliens episode Rebel Magic in 2012, and 10 episodes of Casualty as Natalie Fletcher and Meg Collins from 2005 - 2014, continuing the character into Holby City in 2015. In Corrie as Defence Barrister for 7 episodes in 2014. Mrs Davies/Donna for Made in Wales television series from 2011 - 2014, Sophie Mitchell in Waterloo Road in 2015, with several more television series characters before bringing us up to date in 2017 playing Kath in Emmerdale, Marta Maier in Otzi and the Mystery of Time now completed, Bittersweet Symphony currently in post production, as Mary. Anne in Hatchback a film short also in post production and Chariot as Nina Hetherington also in post production.

Claire also directed the It's My Shout: Short Films from Wales TV series: Sherlock Jones this year (2018). Check it out on iPlayer along with the many others from the series of short films for television this year - they're absolutely brilliant viewing.

Also check out our interview with Claire from a few years ago on our Interviews Page.

Sean Carlsen

'Mr Patrick Grainger'

'So, what else happened at school today?'

Patrick Grainger was having a good day up until the doorbell rang. He was catching up with his family as they prepared the table for their evening meal. He was enquiring after his daughter’s day in school before he answered the door. Perhaps he should have had posted on his door: No Cold Callers, No Sleeper Agents!!!

Patrick Grainger was not just the leader of the Council, he was also the City Co-ordinator, the man who takes charge of the city during major emergencies. He carries all the security protocols, which David would need access to.

Not only was Sean in Torchwood, in 2005 he played a Policeman in Doctor Who episode The Christmas Invasion. As well as an actor, Sean Carlsen also narrated The Motown Invasion episode of Legends in 2009. He played Councillor Davies in Stella for three episodes and played a policeman for the teenage drama series Skins in 2011. He's also played an Advocate for the television mini series On the Edge in 2018 and plays Phil in Sisters.

Victoria Pugh

'Mrs Grainger'

'Alex, don't kill your sister. Not before tea anyway. (upon discovering her husband being stabbed in the front hallway) Patrick? Oh, my god, stop it. Get away from him. Oh, no. Please, don't hurt my children. No please.'

Dealing with the usual sibling teasing while setting the table for tea, relatively normal. Dealing with a sleeper agent murdering your husband in full view of the children on your hallway carpet, not something that happens every day!

Victoria Pugh’s television credits began as Mrs Grainger in Torchwood, since then she has appeared as a Young Housewife in Hughie Green, Most Sincerely film for television in the same year. Played Maggie Rees in Hinterland in 2013, a year later as Doctor Cronje in Stella and Eleri Pritchard in Dim Ond y Gwir a year later. Victoria played Gwenda in 35 Diwrnod for 8 episodes before playing DSI Susan Lynn in 2018 mini series Hidden.

Luke Rutherford

'Burglar #1'

'Come on, then. Get back in there. Sit down there. Keep her quiet. Get away. What is that thing? No, please, don't. Don't. Please stop. Stop. I'm sorry!' later 'The woman in the flat, keep her away from me.'

As a burglar I don’t suppose you meet much resistance when you’re burgling a property, and if you do, I would suspect that many of the home owners would value their life over their belongings and probably wouldn’t take matters into their own hands and murder the crooks. So, perhaps on this particular night, Burglar #1 might well have been wise to stay in and watch Question Time.

After playing Burglar #1 in Sleeper, Luke played Tony in 1234, a film about a band in the making, and in 2012 played Mercenary Security #2 in The Dark Knight Rises.

Alex Harries

'Burglar #2'

'I'll get the TV stuff unhooked. Wait, wait. Do you hear that? What's happening? What's going on?'

You never saw Burglar #2 without his mask on, and so you were never going to know just which actor played him, until of course, many years later, when you’re doing a spot of research for an interview and lo and behold you discover Alex Harries of Hinterland and Keeping Faith played him, in perhaps one of his first television dramas.

Did you know that Alex appeared in University Challenge in 2016 as a Contestant?

Check out our interview with Alex from earlier this summer.

Dominic Coleman

'Police Officer'

'Bit weird, this one. Might be one of yours. Nobody saw anything, heard anything, blah, blah, blah. The usual. Don't know why we bother asking anymore. In my opinion, the husband did it. He was looking for trouble, expecting to be burgled.'

Jack Harkness took an instant dislike to the nosey police officer who had his own thoughts of who the culprit really was. Jack couldn’t wait to get rid of him.

Dominic has played a host of different characters since 2008, starting out as the police officer stationed outside Beth and Mike's bedroom door in the Torchwood episode Sleeper. Since then he's played a a Warder in Big Top, in 2009, Colin in Psychoville, PC Collins in My Family in 2010, Cupid L'Amour in Hotel Trubble for CBBC in 2010.

Played Michael Hunter for Law & Order: UK in 2011, playing a policeman once more for The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff in the same year. He played Jamie for 6 episodes of Heading Out in 2013, was back as a policeman in Paddington in 2014 and Officer Thackery in Up the Women for 2 episodes.

Was the zip wire guy in The Bad Education Movie in 2015. played a variety of different officers for The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret from 2010 - 2016. Was a Priest in Peaky Blinders in 2016, played Mick McKelty in CBBC drama Hank Zipzer from 2014 - 2016, was an officer once again for Porridge (film), returning to play the same officer for the new version of the old sitcom in 2017 for 5 episodes. Played a variety of characters in the long running medical drama Doctors from 2003 - 2017. Played Neville in Trollied from 2012 - 2018.

In Drunk History: UK played Adolf Hitler in 2016. Played a man of the cloth in Death in Paradise in 2017.

He is also the voice of Arthur Weasley in the Harry Potter video game The Deathly Hallows Part 1

Currently completed three films/shorts and an untitled production with Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis which will broadcast in 2019. The three other productions I'm assuming will be released either 2018 or next year.

Matthew Arwel Pegram

'Driver'

'Oi f*ckflap. Get back in that car or I'll shove it up your arse.'

When the petrol tanker parked across the two roads blocking the M4 link road, the driver above jumped out of his car and shouted abuse at the paramedic who jumped down from the cab. Naturally he didn’t hang around when he saw why the paramedic had exited the vehicle in the first place. A well placed bomb on the side of the tanker was enough to clear the road in an instant.

Matthew's only credit was as the gobby driver in this episode. There are no other mentions of him anywhere else on the internet.

Derek Lea

'Paramedic'

Sleeper agents can activate at any time, but ideally always best not to wake up just as you’re attending to a roadside incident. The Sleeper stole and drove a petrol tanker to the M4 link road where an underground fuel pipeline ran. It was a special supply for the military, used in emergencies. Placing a bomb on the side of the tanker, he completely destroyed it.

Derek Lea played the Sleeper Agent Paramedic in this episode. The episode was his first role as an actor in 2008. Much of his roles as an actor were for films such as Quantum of Solace of which he was uncredited as Haines' Bodyguard. Much of his acting roles were for security guards police officers and random named characters. Derek Lea is probably better known for his stunts, working as stunt performer, and stunt coordinator, and stunt driver, often uncredited as well as credited, for films such as James Bond from 1995 to 2008. He's worked on Grantchester, Holby City, Rellik, and even Doctor Who from stunt performer from 2005 - 2008, stunt coordinator from 2016 - 2017. He's worked stunts for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: part 2, MI High, The Sweeney (film), Cockneys vs Zombies, Kick Ass 2, and so much more. It's a lengthy credit list and I could be here till the sun explodes - rather like listing off Jack Harkness' lovers list!!!

William Hughes (12 May 1998 - 9 July 2018)

Alex Grainger

'Have not.'

William Hughes might be better identified as the eight year old Master staring into the Untempered Schism, as the Tenth Doctor talked about Gallifrey and the initiations into the Time Lord Academy to Captain Jack Harkness and Martha Jones, in the episode The Sound of Drums in 2007 and the Masters lament of his childhood in Last of the Time Lords.

William also appeared in the Christmas two parter The End of Time in 2009/2010.

After 2008, William gave up acting to pursue his interest in Boxing, joining the Bonymaen ABC Boxing Gym in Swansea. He won three Welsh titles and became the protege of Enzo Maccarinelli, the Welsh World Champion Boxer, winning a British Championship at the GB Amateur Boxing Championships for Wales, in the 42 kg class in 2011.

He shares a name with the 1930s Welsh Champion boxer William (Billy) "Kid" Hughes.

After celebrating finishing his exams from his first year of studies at Queen Mary University of London where he joined the Elite Athlete Programme in 2017, he took a holiday out to the Greek Island of Corfu, where on the 15th July, he was found alone in his hotel room in Kavos.

He was only 20 when he died.

Millie Phillipart

Grainger's daughter

'Alex has a girlfriend. She's called Jessica.'

When Patrick Grainger enquired after his daughter’s day at school, she casually mentioned that her brother Alex had a girlfriend, to which he vehemently denied.

Millie is the older sister of Lara Phillipart (Small Worlds & Doctor Who: The Idiot's Lantern). After her role in Torchwood in 2008, there is nothing else listed credit wise. However, between 2010 and 2014, Millie attended Swansea University.

NB: I always thought that Millie was the girl pushing the pram that set off the bomb in the telephone communications building, but I’m starting to realise that I’ve perhaps overlooked the one character nobody online pays any attention to. Sorry Millie.

Which leads me to the next question – who was the girl pushing the pram?

By the way, I've only cherry picked from the larger list of credits of some of the cast above. Obviously where there aren’t a lot of credits I’ve listed all that I’ve found, but if I listed every single entry in some, we’d definitely be competing with Jack Harkness on sun explosions.

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Friday, 5 October 2018

Articles Welcome to Issue 63 - WATNOW: Sleeper

Big Finish Reviews+ Sixth Doctor: Fortunes of War by Tony J Fyler

Big Finish Reviews+ First Doctor Adventures, Vol 2 by Tony J Fyler

Articles Where Are They Now? Sleeper Cast by DJ Forrest

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