Beyond The Hub A Sad Farewell to Faith Howells by DJ Forrest

 

There’s never been a dull moment in the Howell’s household, from its early beginnings to its final tragic outcome in season three, with kidnappings, murder, secrets and lies, yep, there’s definitely nothing quiet about the lives of the Howell’s.   

In the first season of Un Bore Mercher/Keeping Faith, Evan Howells is keeping too many secrets from his wife, and one Wednesday morning, disappears. She sees him as usual pulling the car away from the front of the house, and the next instant, he’s gone, and for a long while it seems, never to return. A search is on for details of Evan’s disappearance, and a substantial amount of money from the company accounts which has cleaned them out, leads Faith to discover that Evan has bitten off more than he can chew with the likes of the Vaughan’s and the Reardon’s. 

Evan may have appeared the model citizen, but when he worked with the Vaughan’s and Gael Reardon, he was anything but a saint. It led to Faith to discover what her husband had been up to before he disappeared. It put them all in danger, including young Alys, her eldest child. It led to Steve Baldini, who she had acted as solicitor for, who had promised to look out for her and her family, who knew things about Evan that even Faith didn’t know about. It led to her falling for this rugged bad boy Baldini, and towards the end of the season, you really, really hoped she would… 

Season One introduced us to a wealth of characters. The extended family including Evan’s sister and her policeman husband. Evan’s mum who came clean as to who his biological father was, after a DNA test put Tom nowhere in the picture. 

When Evan finally returned, when the truth came out about his involvement with the Vaughan’s and Reardon’s, that level of trust that Faith had had for him was well and truly lost. It also brought with it corrupt police activity in the form of the Police Sergeant who was determined to connect Faith with the disappearance of her husband, and the death of a dentist. 

Season Two saw Evan in prison, but the investigation was still ongoing and Gael Reardon was putting the pressure on Faith with packages and envelopes and handovers, that were caught on camera. Alys had reached the obnoxious teenager stage and who can blame her with the craziness of family life. Arthur, the down and out drunk in the first season, who came into his own towards the end, and became a firm friend of Faith’s and became the new childminder, and the whole family appreciated his help, even when Evan was released from prison. 

Evan hadn’t properly adapted to family life and was still tracking Faith, uncovering her investigation, the photos and paperwork from deals and contracts which had led to them almost going under in the first season. Tom had separated from Marion, and was living on his boat in the harbour. His secretary declared her undying love for him, which was very sweet, and Marion developed a limp and a walking aid and had aged incredibly after the trauma of losing her son and then her husband in swift succession. I’m not sure if Evan truly forgave his Mum for lying to him about his father. 

In Season Three, a newcomer came to town, stirring up trouble and looking for revenge. Faith’s estranged mother came for a visit, to stir up trouble, and cause untold mayhem and chaos for Faith and her family. Her concern for daughter and her grandchildren was a mask for why she was really in town and the final showdown was the icing on the cake. Her swansong. 

The final episode was a true heart breaker and tear jerker. Hankies were definitely required. Staring down the barrel of a handgun, Faith saw the darkness of the mother scorned. Her revenge was to eliminate everything her daughter truly loved, to make her feel as bad as her own life had become. But Faith, was a different person when she left home and left the clutches of her mother – a woman she never loved, or trusted. It unnerved her that she was in town, and home truths had to be laid on the table when Faith finally owned up to some things in her past, she had hoped would remain buried. When Tom learnt the truth, he ended his business relationship with Faith’s mother, who had come in to put some business his way. 

Matthew Hall, writer and creator of Keeping Faith has a way of drawing you into a character and their lives, bringing them to life before your eyes. Introducing a character who for much of the story is a regular kind of Jo, with a family, living in a small Welsh coastal town, and everything is pretty much, normal, but then taking the normal, and turning it into something bigger, stronger, brasher and introducing us to characters who you want to root for. Some you want to slap, and others you might want to hit in the face with a chair. But certainly, you find yourself humming the theme tune while working, see character scenes opening up in your head. It’s been a wonderful series and I’m only disappointed that it’s come to its natural end, but what an ending. 

It’s going to take some time to find a series that will fill the void of Un Bore Mercher/Keeping Faith. 

We Will Miss You, Faith Howell’s.

 

 

News Obituary Helen Griffin

"We cannot afford to have a narrow definition of what it means to be Welsh. If we want to move forward we should be proud of multicultural Wales."

My first introduction to Helen Griffin was as Mrs Moore in the Doctor Who two parter Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel, as the van driver and leading activist against the metal men invading the alternative universe. The Doctor remembered her in a flashback during the Stolen Earth two parter and given her stance on anti-war, anti-racism and feminist causes, this role as Mrs Moore was right up her street

I remembered her also in Gavin and Stacey, when James Corden’s character was desperate to see his son being born and they were 10p short of the Toll.

As well as a brilliant actress who was loved by much of Wales (if not all – have you read the messages of condolences on Twitter), Helen was also a writer, of episodes of popular television dramas to also a film drama about a travelling circus in Victorian times, set around Wales, and starring a host of familiar Welsh actors and actresses. It was directed by Keith Allen.

Recently Helen played Maggie Talbot in Keeping Faith, the wife of a minister going through hard times. I hardly recognised her, but then, Doctor Who was a good ten years ago, and we all do change. A fantastic talented lady who we shall all miss.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Griffin

Interviews Alex Harries by DJ Forrest

Aka Arthur Davies – Keeping Faith

One of my favourite characters in Matthew Hall’s drama Keeping Faith, is Arthur Davies, and after discovering that Alex Harries was in Torchwood episode Sleeper, I finally had my opportunity of catching up with him, for a phone interview, and I had one burning question to kick off the interview…

Are you related to either Mali or Phylip Harries?

Alex: No. No. Always get that question. No, we're not, no.

Have you always been interested in acting or do you have other passions besides acting?

Alex: I was always interested in it and not knowing I was interested in it. I mean as I grew up, my father was a big film buff you know, growing up, you know, all sorts of Westerns and films from the 50s and 60s and my grandfather, sort of, films from the 30s and 40s and I sort of grew up watching those videos and films each week. And I was about 10 or 11 when somebody said, a teacher stuck me in a Christmas play or something and I was like Okay and I can do this a little bit, and so at that point I wasn't particularly talented at anything else. Then I came back and forth to it through school and then I joined Amateur Dramatics Society when I was about 14 and did various Shakespeare and Chaucer and things like that, and then eventually I went to National Youth Theatre of Wales and got bits and bobs and then ended up going to drama school and it went from there really.

Did you go onto the Royal College of Music and Drama in Wales?

Alex: No, I did the National Youth Theatre of Wales. It was basically 4 weeks over the summer where you did a residential thing where you went away and you did something like a play of sorts and then I took a year out before going to drama school in Edinburgh, and I funnily enough went to play rugby up in Gloucester. I then decided to apply for drama schools and got in a few places but decided to go to Edinburgh and got into the Welsh college in Wales. I decided I just needed to get out of Wales. I sort of went to Edinburgh for 3 years and then it kind of kicked off from there then.

It's a fair trek from Wales to Edinburgh.

Alex: Yeah, the longer the trek the better that was my thinking at the time. 

What drew you to the character of Arthur when you first read the script?

Alex: Flaws. I always get drawn to flaws because, I mean it's just humanity then isn't it? When there's flaws then there's something then to work the character from. Because I think we're all defined maybe by what's imperfect or what's not so good or weak, not weak, I don't like that word but, you know, things that we don't like showing and then it always becomes a bit more interesting working the character from there than anything else and Arthur has got plenty of flaws. And I think unattractive flaws as well. So when there's genuine flaws then, that people wouldn't want to show or would try their best not to show, then it's interesting then because  you can really sort of find the juxta position in the character then, I suppose.

How long did it take for you to get your hair to look like Arthur's dreadlocks?

Alex (laughs): Well I mean first of all, a little while but now it's a wig and when the wig was set, it just literally popped on my head and clipped in, it wasn't too bad.

Oh, so it wasn't that you had to make your hair so it was back combed and sprayed or hours in make-up?

Alex: No, no I mean I was going to make-up where they prepared it and did it and I'd sat in the chair for a good while, doing it and perfecting it and then each time then it was clipped on my head. It was probably the longest I've been sat in make-up for a character anyway because there was a lot of ingrained dirt to get into my skin and under my nails and all that stuff to begin with at least for the transformation of the character.

Was it a relief towards the end of the series that he had really short hair then? I preferred Arthur with the short hair.

Alex: Well in some ways yeah, it was a very itchy bloody wig

Or was it filmed the other way around or something

Alex: Well, the funny thing was that I had short hair anyway for the wig to go on. So, they cut the hair obviously because you don't always have the novelty of being able to film in sequence so there was a little bit of going back and forth to scenes, where I'd have the wig and didn't have the wig.

Keeping Faith isn't the first series to have the Welsh language in one series and then the English language in the next, was there any time during the filming that you had to replay scenes that you forgot which language you were playing in?

Alex: Oh yeah, I did all the time. I mean, funnily enough I did a series before Keeping Faith where they did that for the first time for a long time, where they did it in both languages, called Hinterland. I remember in Hinterland, I used to forget all the time what language we were in and come into the scenes speaking Welsh when it was English and vice versa and the same in Keeping Faith. Yeah, I'm useless at that and absent minded at the best of times, so, yeah I had a lot of trouble with that.

I saw that there were 4 characters moved from Hinterland into Keeping Faith that I noticed.

Alex: Yeah, four of the main characters but there were others spread out over the Hinterland series.

I only noticed that the other day when I was looking up the names of the four and thought, hang on, the blond haired woman, she looks familiar, oh my god it's Cerys.

When you've been in a successful programme such as Hinterland, then coming over to Keeping Faith, do you ever keep in touch with the people you've acted with or do you go your separate ways after filming?

Alex: A bit of both. For some I keep in touch with more than others, not because of anything sinister or, just the way it works really. I'm very good friends with Aneurin who plays a Dad in Keeping Faith but plays Prosser in Hinterland, and I'm very good friends as well and keep in touch with Hannah who plays Cerys, and Sian in Keeping Faith and Hinterland respectively and there are others, I come across, and most of us are living in and around Cardiff, so you see people about, so both.

Your role in Torchwood was the masked Burglar in the Sleeper episode

Alex: Oh god, yeah.

Was that your first acting role or had you applied for any other roles in the series?

Alex: I wasn't long out of drama school for that one. I think it was my first TV job after drama school. I'd done through the interim period mostly theatre. Actually, I think I had another TV job straight after it an S4C thing and then I didn't do anything for a while actually. Mostly theatre again. Didn't do many TV until I got Pobyl y Cwm, a Welsh soap.

Have you ever played a character in Doctor Who, at all?

Alex: No, I haven't no, nothing at all. Torchwood was my one science fiction outing I'm afraid.

What roles have you played in theatre?

Alex: A bit of everything really. Some Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, the Citizens of Glasgow, quite a lot of stuff, yeah, quite a lot really, various stuff.

Was it all around Cardiff theatres or did you travel all over?

Alex: I toured a production with Macbeth when I was back in theatre and I was gone for three or four years, not the Autumn just gone but the Autumn before, just before Keeping Faith. I did a production of Macbeth which toured England and Wales and then before that, the last time I was in the thing before that was, I did a one man show about a boxer and he was a science specific and he was in a boxing gym and I can't remember before that.

I mean, even though I do enjoy theatre, I think just because I grew up watching so much film and not really exposed to theatre my love of acting or my interest in it then and my interest in drama has come through the medium of film really. So, I've always been a bit more comfortable acting for camera than I have for a live audience. Even though I'm fine with it it's just the thing with theatre generally, is that the emphasis is way more on language and on writing whereas film and TV tends to be more about circumstances. I find people in circumstances to be quite fascinating and so I was naturally drawn more then towards screen than theatre maybe.

So, when you've played different roles even on the stage, have you kept your Welsh accent or do you put on a different accent like English, Scottish, regional, etc?

Alex: No, I mean theatre, these accents are a lot more. I did Afrikaans for one play, did northern Lancashire accent for another. For screen I've never had to use another accent in terms of it being non-Welsh but, funnily enough in Keeping Faith in English and Welsh it's sort of got back to an accent I used to have a lot more of. Obviously, I have a Welsh accent now but the accent I used to have was a much broader thicker Welsh accent than what it's become now.

Is your accent much stronger for television than what it is in real life?

Alex: To be honest, I've not watched the series much yet because I'm terrible, I'm not quite there yet to be able to watch it. With Arthur sort of trying to be as ambiguous as he can just for the sake of survival he purposefully thickens his accent, just so he sounds like the village idiot or the village comedian as it kind of protects him a little bit. And then he begins to reveal a little bit more I try to sort of maybe come back a little bit more towards the way I speak now but not quite, just to give it maybe a little bit of, I don't know, something, but whether I'm not sure how it all came through, that's at the mercy of the edit a lot of the time.

In Hinterland I'd listen to a lot to the accent of the area - West MidWalean accent is thicker in a different way. The vowels are much more open. The accent I grew up with was...depends what it is, I mean, I suppose I alter my voice somehow, one way or another, yeah.

The funny thing is in Welsh, it's not happened so much because, I don't know, I don't know why that's happened as much in Welsh my accent is much nearer to what it was. Maybe because I've never had to refine that, but it's just through circumstance that my English is refined.

So, when you're at home do you speak Welsh or English?

Alex: Well it depends. When I'm home with my parents I speak Welsh with my father, my Mum, it's complicated actually. My Mum's parents were Welsh speaking but because, without going into it, the politics at the time, my parents were discouraged from speaking Welsh to the other children, so they didn't speak Welsh to them. But my Mum always understood Welsh. I still grew up in a house where my father spoke Welsh but my Mum spoke English back. So, I've had a complete bi-lingual upbringing really. But I speak English to my Mum but ironically Mum speaks Welsh now to my children.

I mind about the politics of the time. I was brought up in North Wales.

Alex: It was more prevalent there.

So it was very strong there, and so everyone in the schools had to speak English, and it was like, if you were born Welsh, then you should have the right to speak in your own tongue.

Alex: I agree. I absolutely agree with the principal. I think people would speak it more when they weren't allowed to speak it. I think Brendan Gleason when he was asked about saving the Irish language and he said Ban it. And I sometimes think, you know, I didn't go to Welsh school, it was kind of unfashionable like you said, I think I spoke more Welsh because of that and I would if I'd have gone to Welsh school. And it was a bit of a battle with my own children as to whether I would do and I spoke more Welsh when I didn't go to Welsh school. But they do go to Welsh school now. It's a complicated old thing, Wales (laughs) it really is.

North Wales and West Wales especially.

Why is it harder to find Arthur Davies images on Google search than any other character in Keeping Faith? All I can find is your Hinterland character and your profile photo. 

Alex: I don't know. That's a good question. I don't research myself so I don't know.

So, it's not just a case that you're keeping things private so it limits what is on Google, under the copyright laws?

Alex: Oh god I wouldn't say that. I mean no, I don't know. Maybe you should start a campaign!

Have your children shown any desire to become actors like their Dad?

Alex: I hope not! They're twins and they're three and the funny thing is my partner, Zoe Davies is an actor as well so I don't think I've really got a lot of hope, do I?  I think they are, however, I wouldn't want to encourage them in the least. I mean I've always, and this isn't judgemental on other actors by any stretch of the imagination but I always think as an actor you're playing people at the end of the day and it's a study of people and you want to get as much experience as you can get, not acting but doing other things. So, if they do, I really hope they do other things before they do.

I asked after Alex's partner Zoe Davies. Alex explained that she is a theatre actor, who has done many regional theatres.

Do you do a lot of book reading - novels, that kind of thing?

Alex: I do. I did a lot more until the thing called iPhone came along and Wikipedia and that's ruined my life, it really has. I used to read a book a week at one point.

What are you reading at the moment?

Alex: Funnily enough I've just started Kirk Douglas' autobiography. I've read only two pages in.

On the set of Keeping Faith, are all the indoor scenes filmed in a studio?

Alex:  Yes, they are all in a studio.

Because Faith's house looks so real with the staircase going up the middle of the room.

Alex: Faith's house is a studio, and the interior is a studio. So yeah, they did a wonderful job of that, it was incredible.

I quite fancied a house with a staircase up the middle

Alex: Yeah, I know.  I was quite envious as well.

What are you currently working on at the moment?

Alex: I've just finished doing a bit for Pip again actually - who directed Keeping Faith. They're making a film called To Provide All People which is to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the NHS, so it's broadcasting in late June I think for the BBC. Other than that, nothing at the moment.

Thank you, Alex for an absolutely brilliant interview. Loved it. 

Photos: 

Warren Orchard - Hinterland group photo

Connections Un Bore Mercher/Keeping Faith by DJ Forrest

Written by Matthew Hall, produced and directed by Pip Broughton and Andy Newbery, Keeping Faith or Un Bore Mercher for those of us watching the series at the moment with or without English subtitles, is all about Faith Howells, played by Eve Myles, who returns early from maternity leave, to manage the family law firm, because her husband, Evan, played by Bradley Freegard, has disappeared.  

With the Police suspicious that Faith might know more than she is letting on, Faith does a little digging of her own, when local man Steve Baldini, reveals deep and dark secrets that leaves Faith wondering if she knew Evan at all.

With brilliant scenery, and familiar landscapes making an appearance in episode 4, and outstanding performances from the entire cast, there’s something worth watching again, on a Sunday evening – and over the coming weeks, thanks to iPlayer (and subtitles).

Keeping Faith – the English version – will be out next year. So, you’ll get to watch it all over again.

As we’ve got an interview planned for next month, with writer and creator of this fantastic series, we thought we’d kick off that by discovering just how many of the cast and crew we’ve met before – and you’ll be surprised at just how many there are.

We’ve done the research, so you don’t have to.

Director

Andy Newbery was director for 2 episodes in 2017. Was third assistant director for Doctor Who episode Time Crash in 2007.

Cast 

Eve Myles played Faith Howells for 8 episodes in 2017. Eve really needs no introduction, but for those who don't know - Eve has played Gwen Cooper for 41 episodes of Torchwood from 2006 - 2011 and continues to play her with Big Finish Audios. Check out our interview with Eve Myles from a few years back.

Matthew Gravelle played Terry Price for 8 episodes in 2017. Played a Doctor in Torchwood episode End of Days in 2007. Has voiced the Security Guard in Radio 4 Torchwood play: Asylum and as Bob in The Dead Line both in 2009.

Mark Lewis Jones played Steve Baldini for 8 episodes in 2017. Played John Ellis in Torchwood episode Out of Time in 2006.

Check out our interview with Mark Lewis Jones.

Eiry Thomas played DI Williams for 8 episodes in 2017. Played Carol in Torchwood episode Sleeper in 2006.

Mali Harries played Bethan Price for 8 episodes in 2017. Played Cathy in Doctor Who episode Boom Town in 2005.

Alex Harries played Arthur Davies for 7 episodes in 2017. Played Burglar 2 in Torchwood episode Sleeper in 2008. 

Richard Elfyn played DCI Huw Parry for 7 episodes in 2017. Played the voice of the Knights in Doctor Who episode Robot of Sherwood in 2014.

Menna Trussler played Eira Jones for 4 episodes in 2017. Played the old woman at the traffic lights in Torchwood episode Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in 2008. Check out the interview we had with Menna.

Nia Roberts played Saran James for 2 episodes in 2017. Played Ambrose in Doctor Who two parter The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood in 2010. In two Doctor Who documentary's appeared uncredited as Ambrose from 2012 - 2016. Nia also voiced Bragnar in Big Finish audio story The Wrath of the Iceni for Doctor Who audio.

Morgan Hopkins played Gareth for 1 episode in 2017. Played Mervyn in Torchwood episode Something Borrowed in 2008, and Sergeant Price in Doctor Who episode World War Three in 2005.

Helen Griffin played Maggie Talbot for 1 episode in 2017. Played Mrs Moore in Doctor Who two parter The Age of Steel and Rise of the Cybermen in 2006, uncredited for her appearance in Journey's End in 2008.

Cinematographer

Steve Lawes was cinematographer for 4 episodes in 2017. Was focus puller for 5 episodes of Doctor Who in 2005.

Rory Taylor was cinematographer for 1 episode in 2017. Was cinematographer for 2 episodes of Doctor Who in 2014. Was director of photography for 23 episodes from 2006 - 2010.

Was director of photography for all 5 episodes of Torchwood: Children of Earth in 2009. Was cinematographer for 13 episodes of SJA from 2007 - 2008, and director of photography for 8 episodes in 2007.

Was director of photography for Doctor Who: Attack of the Graske video game in 2005. Was camera operator for 16 episodes of Doctor Who from 2006 - 2009, and appeared as himself in the Doctor Who Confidential series for 4 episodes from 2007 - 2008.

Film Editor

Mike Hopkins was editor for 3 episodes in 2017. Was off-line editor for 4 episodes of Doctor Who in 2013. Was editor for 6 episodes of Doctor Who from 2007 - 2012. Was editor for SJA for 9 episodes from 2007 - 2009. Was editor for four episodes of Torchwood from 2006 - 2008.

Art Director

Tim Overson was art director for 4 episodes in 2017. Was art director for 13 episodes of Doctor Who from 2016 - 2017.

Makeup Department

Emma Cowen was makeup supervisor for 8 episodes in 2017. Was makeup supervisor for 6 episodes of Doctor Who in 2014 and makeup artist for 2 episodes from 2013 - 2014.

Claire Pritchard was makeup designer for 8 episodes in 2017. Was makeup designer for 14 episodes of Doctor Who and makeup artist for 9 episodes from 2005 - 2006, and makeup supervisor for 1 episode in 2013. Was makeup supervisor for 14 episodes from 2006 - 2008 and makeup designer for 7 episodes in 2011, makeup designer for 2 episodes in 2011 and makeup supervisor for 2 episodes in 2006, or Torchwood.

Check out our interview with Claire, what an insight it is to her work.

Production Manager

Medyr Llewelyn was production manager for 4 episodes in 2017. Was production secretary for 4 episodes in 2014, and production assistant for 1 episode in 2014. Was production manager for 2 episodes of Doctor Who in 2017.

James DeHaviland was production manager for 3 episodes in 2017. Was second assistant director for 74 episodes of Doctor Who from 2009 - 2017. Was assistant director for The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot film in 2013. Was second assistant director for 13 episodes of Torchwood from 2006 - 2009. Was production manager for 2 episodes of Doctor Who in 2015. Played himself in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, and was drama events manager for Doctor Who at the BBC Proms (Prom 2: Doctor Who at the Proms) in 2013. Appeared as himself and 2nd Assistant Director in 3 episodes of Doctor Who Confidential from 2010 - 2011.

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Michael Curtis was second assistant director for 8 episodes in 2017. Was assistant director for 12 episodes of Doctor Who from 2010 - 2011 and third assistant director for 1 episode in 2011.

Lauren Pate was assistant director for 2 episodes in 2017. Was assistant director for 13 episodes of Doctor Who from 2016 - 2017.

Geraint Havard Jones was first assistant director for 1 episode in 2017. Was unit manager for Torchwood, for 7 episodes from 2006 - 2008.

Was unit manager for 1 episode of Doctor Who in 2007.

Art Department

Anwen Haf was stand-by art director for 8 episodes in 2017. Was standby art director for 1 episode in 2015.

Matthew Ireland was stand-by props for 8 episodes in 2017. Was standby props for 10 episodes of Doctor Who from 2014 - 2017 and props for 6 episodes in 2011. Was set dresser for 12 episodes of SJA in 2009. Was set dresser for Torchwood for 10 episodes from 2006 - 2007.

Julia Jones was assistant art director and draughtperson for 8 episodes in 2017. Was draughtsperson for 13 episodes of Doctor Who from 2014 - 2017, draughtsman for 13 episodes in 2011 and model maker for 1 episode in 2010. Was standby props for The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot in 2013.

Vicki Male was prop buyer for 8 episodes in 2017. Was prop buyer for 3 episodes of Doctor Who in 2015.

Dafydd Shurmer was supervising art director 8 episodes in 2017. Was supervising art director for 1 episode of Doctor Who in 2015. Was stand by art director for 4 episodes, from 2007 - 2011, and supervising art director for 3 episodes from 2015 - 2017.

Was standby art director for 3 episodes of Torchwood in 2006, and standby art director for 5 episodes in 2006.

Jack Bowes was graphic designer for 6 episodes in 2017. Was graphics assistant for 3 episodes of Doctor Who in 2017.

Christina Tom was graphic designer for 6 episodes in 2017. Was graphic artist for 46 episodes for Doctor Who from 2008 - 2017, graphic designer for 4 episodes from 2008 - 2010, stand by art director for 3 episodes from 2016 - 2017, and props buyer for 2 episodes in 2008. Was graphic designer for 18 episodes of SJA from 2007 - 2008. Was trainee: Cyfle for 2 episodes of Doctor Who in 2007.

Mark Painter was studio construction manager for 4 episodes in 2017. Was carpenter for Doctor Who for 5 episodes from 2005 - 2015.

Colin Toms was stand-by rigger for 4 episodes in 2017. Was stand by rigger for 5 episodes of Doctor Who from 2015 - 2017.

Sound Department

Tam Shoring was boom operator for 8 episodes in 2017. Was boom operator for 23 episodes of Doctor Who from 2014 - 2015 and sound maintenance engineer for 9 episodes from 2013 - 2017.

Was boom operator for 1 episode of Torchwood  in 2006.

Special Effects

Dominic Allan was special effects technician for 8 episodes in 2017. Was Doctor Who special effects technician for 6 episodes from 2012 - 2013 and special effects for 1 episode in 2013.

Dave Kneath was special effects technician for 8 episodes in 2017. Was special effects technician for 16 episodes of Doctor Who from 2014 - 2015.

Camera and Electrical Department

Sion Davies was electrician for 8 episodes in 2017. Was electrician for 3 episodes of Doctor Who from 2016 - 2017.

Llyr Evans was gaffer for 8 episodes in 2017. Was best boy for 7 episodes of Torchwood from 2006 - 2007.

Gawain Nash was electrician for 8 episodes in 2017. Was electrician for 19 episodes of Doctor Who from 2009 - 2017 and best boy for 2 episodes in 2017.

Peter Lowden was second assistant camera for 4 episodes in 2017. Was camera assistant for 1 episode of Doctor Who in 2013.

Charlie Cowper was camera operator: steadicam/"b" camera operator, additional cinematography for 2 episodes in 2017. Was jib camera grip for 2 episodes of Doctor Who from 2007 - 2009 and steadicam for 1 episode #11.1

Cai Thompson was second assistant camera for 2 episodes in 2017. Was camera assistant for 33 episodes of Doctor Who from 2012 - 2015. Was camera assistant on The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot in 2013.

Jonathan Vidgen was first assistant camera for 2 episodes in 2017. Was focus puller for 42 episodes of Doctor Who from 2011 - 2017, and camera assistant for 19 episodes from 2008 - 2010. Was camera assistant for 5 episodes of Torchwood series 3: Children of Earth in 2009. Was camera assistant for Doctor Who: Music of the Spheres in 2008.

Elliot Hale was first assistant camera for 1 episode of Keeping Faith in 2017. Was camera assistant for 1 episode of Doctor Who in 2011.

Adam Lincoln was camera operator: "b" camera for 1 episode in 2017. Was clapper loader for Doctor Who episode Blink in 2007.

Scott Waller was second assistant camera for 1 episode in 2017. Was camera assistant for 13 episodes of Doctor Who in 2015.

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Leila Headon was costume stand-by for 8 episodes in 2017. Was costume assistant for 4 episodes of Doctor Who from 2016 - 2017.

Editorial Department

Kurt Williams was on-line editor for 6 episodes in 2017. Was an on-line editor for 1 episode of the web series Whovians TV in 2016.

Matt Mullins was colourist for 3 episodes in 2017. Was assistant editor for 7 episodes from 2006 - 2007 of Doctor Who and on-line editor for 2 episodes of the series from 2011 - 2012.

He was on-line editor for 14 episodes of SJA from 2010 - 2012 and colourist for four episodes in 2011.

He was colourist also for Doctor Who Confidential for 20 episodes from 2009 - 2011 and one episode as an on-line editor in 2008. In 2009 was an on-line editor for 6 episodes of Doctor Who: Dreamland, and assistant editor for 17 episodes of Torchwood from 2006 - 2008 and on-line editor for 4 episodes from 2008 - 2009. He was a visual effects editor for 1 episode of Doctor Who in 2009.

Location Manager

Paul Davies was location manager and location scout for 8 episodes in 2017. Was location manager for 7 episodes of Doctor Who from 2010 - 2014 and location manager for 9 episodes of Torchwood from 2006 - 2007. He was unit manager for 4 episodes of Torchwood Miracle Day (UK unit) in 2011.

Iwan Roberts was location manager for 8 episodes in 2017. Was location manager for 28 episodes of Doctor Who from 2010 - 2017. Was location manager for SJA episode Enemy of the Bane, part 1 in 2008, and assistant location manager ffor Torchwood episode Adam, in 2008. In Doctor Who Extra in 2014 he appeared as himself for 2 episodes, and as Location Manager he appeared as himself in Doctor Who Confidential episode Open All Hours in 2011.

Beccy Jones was unit manager for 6 episodes in 2017. Was unit manager for 2 episodes of Doctor Who from 2016 - 2017 and production manager for 1 episode of Doctor Who in 2008. Was location assistant for Doctor Who episode The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe in 2011.

Script Supervisor

Heulwen Jones was script supervisor for 4 episodes in 2017. Was continuity for 2 episodes of Torchwood in 2008.

Llinos Wyn Jones was script supervisor for 4 episodes in 2017. Was continuity for 7 episodes of Doctor Who from 2005 - 2009. Was continuity for 1 episode of Sarah Jane Adventures - Enemy of the Bane, part 1 in 2008.

Was continuity for 12 episodes of Torchwood from 2006 - 2008. Was production assistant for 2 episodes of Doctor Who in 1985.