Articles Small Worlds - Where Are They Now? Cast by DJ Forrest

‘All these so-called faeries were children once. From different moments in time.

Going back millennia. Part of the Lost Lands.’

Jack Harkness

The Cottingley Fairies aren’t a patch on these long legged, flying creatures that are currently playing with Jasmine, a little girl who is at the centre of this story. They can alter the weather and cause great destruction, to anyone who hurts or kills a Chosen One. The Chosen One in this instance, is little Jasmine, who lives with her Mum and stepdad Roy in a housing estate near a fabled forest, where in Roman times, soldiers wouldn’t camp there due to evil spirits.

A local paedophile who corners Jasmine on her walk home through the woods, suffers the consequences of his actions, by a little payback from the faeries, and Jasmine skips home blissfully unaware of the tragic outcome of this man’s actions.

Torchwood learn of the faeries through Estelle Cole, an old flame of Jack’s, who has studied these creatures all her life. But where she sees only the beauty of them, Jack sees a whole different side, and after the Police call about the paedophile who was murdered in his cell, Jack opens up about how dangerous they are, and of his past dealings with them, back in Lahore, on a troop train.

When Jasmine’s stepdad blocks the entrance from the garden to the woods, and an altercation leaves Jasmine clutching her cheek, and Roy nursing a bitten arm, the faeries descend at the barbecue, as Roy addresses his gathered friends in his back garden, enjoying the free feed.

As all hell breaks loose, Jasmine skips away from the party and to the woods, where the faeries have cleared a gap in the fence for her. Torchwood arrive at the scene of chaos as faeries plunge flower petals into poor old Roy, and attempt to do it to Jack. Jasmine’s mum, distraught enough at the death of Roy, soon becomes consumed with rage when Jack, following after Jasmine, lets her go with the faeries, rather than see the world turned on its head by these nightmarish creatures.

Jack’s team leave quietly, disgusted by their Captain, but deep down, knowing there was little else that could have been done to save the day.

Back in the Hub, Gwen zooms in on the little faerie at the bottom of the Cottingley Fairies photo, to find Jasmine Pearce, as a faerie.

Cast

Eve Pearce

‘Estelle Cole’

‘I suppose I'm one of the fortunate few who's been allowed to see our little friends. And it's been no easy task. One needs to have the patience of a saint and the blind faith of a prophet. But for me the long wait has been worthwhile.’

Estelle Cole believed the faeries to be mythical creatures often found around toadstools or stone circles in woods and who were mischievous creatures but not in the same sense that Jack saw them. She photographed them as often as she could, and that led to her tragic death in her garden while her cat Moses, looked on, unable to prevent the rain fall that drowned her.

Eve has worked as an actress since 1954, but since Torchwood, Eve has worked in many television productions from The Bill, Him & Her, Holby City, Getting On, Doctors and WPC 56. She played Maggie in the Scottish gangster film The Wee Man in 2013, and played Alice Drablow in The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death a year later. As well as two film shorts, Hands and The Elder, Eve played Mother Kralefsky in The Durrells series, episode #2.3.

As well as television dramas and films, Eve has also appeared in a few adverts, including a road safety film and an ad for a well-known online gambling site, involving a shop worker living his life as a vampire.

Check out the wonderful interview we had with Eve last year.

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Lara Philipart

‘Jasmine Pearce’

‘Do you know you're walking in a forest? Well, you are. It looks like a very old forest, and it's magical. I want to stay in it.’

Jasmine was the little girl who really was 'away with the faeries'. Jasmine, was one of the Chosen Ones, protected through time, who would eventually join the faeries forever. The faeries protected her from harm, punishing those who hurt her. Jack, had to let her join them, otherwise the mara would cause untold damage to the world. It was a decision that would divide the team, and devastate the mother.

Lara's career began in 2004, when she played Susan in Carrie's War, from there she played Megan Hendry in Casualty episode The Lost Boys in 2006 before landing the role in Doctor Who, as one of the lucky guests to view the Queen's Coronation around Magpie's dodgy tellyboxes in The Idiot's Lantern. She looked a lot younger in that than her role in Torchwood, even though it was the same year.

There is no further information regarding Lara’s acting credits on the internet, and it could be, that like many other child actors, that they’ve grown out of this role, and focusing all their efforts on their school work, and stepping away from the industry. A few photos on the internet with the Swansea Harriers in athletics, which are easily accessible through Google Search, but otherwise, there are no new photos.

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Adrienne O'Sullivan

‘Lynn (Mother of Jasmine)’

Lynn: ‘You should have invited them to the party.’

Jasmine Pearce: ‘They don’t like parties.’

Lynn: ‘I’m not surprised, if they live in trees.’

Lynn, mother to Jasmine, was a happy woman, content with life with Roy, but concerned that her daughter wasn't mixing well in school, and spent most of her time at home, down the garden and in the woods. Lynn, was devastated when she lost not only her partner Roy, at the barbecue, but also her daughter Jasmine, to those strange creatures that came into the garden and terrorised her friends and family.

In one small role, a prelude to the Doctor Who episode Doomsday, Adrienne played the Newsreader in the 2006 Tardisodes episode. It was the same year as her role as Lynn in Torchwood. In 2010 she played Jackie in the film Submarine, was Junior's mother in Made in Wales series in the same year and Gillian Bradley in The Reckoning in 2011. On a website that you have to join in order to find out further information. Aside from some voice acting for animations and cartoons, there are no further mentions of acting credits.

Check out our interview with Adrienne that we had a few years ago, here.

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William Travis

‘Roy’

‘Well, when's the last time you saw her watching TV? Or reading a book? Or playing with a doll? Or sitting down to have a chat with us? When's the last time you heard her laugh?’

Roy was never going to be Mr Popular with Jasmine - they were poles apart. He was outgoing, she was quiet, and waved at what looked to be imaginary people. He wanted to do right by Lynn but when Jasmine kicked off about the fence, Roy snapped and slapped her, causing his tragic end during a barbecue at the family home.

You really don't want to mess with those faeries, do you?

I remember William Travis as Dick Lampard in Where the Heart Is which he played for a total of 71 episodes from 1997 - 2002. Since Torchwood, William Travis has been in one heck of a lot of programmes, from Shameless, The Street, The Royal, This is England '86 and '88, and '90, The Syndicate, Accused, Downton Abbey, The Mill, Harriet's Army, I even saw him in the 4 O'clock Club on CBBC for 2 years from 2012 - 2014. He played four different characters in Casualty from 2001 - 2014, was in 37 episodes of Corrie from 2008 - 2014, played Maurice Cranage in Father Brown, and recently returned to Doctors to play a new character, Ray Wallis, in the episode Intervention this year, having played four other characters since 2006. He's currently playing Simon Shorecross for Dark River.

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Roger Barclay

‘Goodson’

‘It's little girls. It's their little bodies. It's their little smiles. They're bright as buttons. Look, er, I've been in trouble before, so just help me. Just lock me up! Please.’

Goodson was known to the Police as a paedophile. He was interested in Jasmine and followed her home in his car. He tried to give her a lift but good little girl as she is, refused and continued to skip home. He stopped her under a bridge and tried to drag her into his car as a storm blew all around him, cracking his nose against his own car. Spooked by what he saw, he was plagued by the faeries, throughout the streets, market and eventually in his police cell, where he begged to be placed, for his own safety.

Since Torchwood, Roger Barclay has played many characters, including (and probably my favourite of all his roles), a Burger joint Dad entertaining his kids. Possibly my least favourite character role of his would be as Terence Cunningham in Holby City, perhaps because he played a nasty piece of work, far worse, in my eyes, than Goodson.  

Since Small Worlds, Roger has appeared in a lot of popular dramas including Hotel Babylon, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, House of Anubis, Man Down, Legends, Cuffs and Inspector George Gently. He's been the voice of Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments video game in 2014, and was Agent Two in Johnny English Reborn film in 2011.

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Heledd Baskerville

‘Kate’

‘And there was little Jasmine in amongst it all. She hadn't been touched. The sun was shining down on her. It was, it was like an aura, like something protecting her.’

Kate was the schoolteacher caught up in the strong gale force winds threatening to hurt two bullies who pushed Jasmine to the floor of a playground.

Heledd began her career in 2002 as Katy Morgan in Yr Heliwr: Pechod, since then she's appeared in A Mind to Kill, Casualty, Doctors and Emyn Roc a Rol. Since Torchwood, Heledd has appeared in Y Pris and in 2013 as Lowri Rees in Hinterland series.

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Ffion Wilkins

WPC

‘He said there were flowers in his mouth.’

Outside the market, Goodson accosts the WPC, desperate to be taken into custody after coughing up several rose petals after an attack by the faeries. She looked the kind of police officer that suffered fools lightly.

Ffion played Hannah Bain in A Mind to Kill from 1994 - 2002 (I knew I'd seen her before somewhere). Since Torchwood however, her acting career seems to have stopped, however, Ffion is the lead singer of the band, Tuxedo.

https://www.tuxedopartyband.com/duo

Nathan Sussex

‘Desk Sergeant’

'I thought I'd seen everything until now. I mean, we had him locked up, for Christ's sake, on his own. He was shouting the odds when he was brought in. Said things were following him.'

When Goodson is initially brought in and confesses he’s known to the police, the desk sergeant books him in. When the paedo is murdered in his cell, it’s the desk sergeant who calls in Torchwood, because, the CCTV gives him little to go on.

One of the biggest if not dramatic changes I've seen in an actor is with Nathan Sussex. From desk sergeant to this rippled muscle, slim, fit, gorgeous man - how are these two even related, they look so different, but I can assure you, they are, one and the very same lovely man.

Check out the interview we had with Nathan some time ago.

Since Torchwood, Nathan has appeared and reappeared in television soaps and dramas since 2006. Do look out for his role in The Lighthouse alongside Mark Lewis Jones.

Since 2006, Nathan has appeared in Corrie, Judge John Deed, Summer Scars as Peter’s Hand, Young Dracula, Baker Boys, Gwaith/Cartref, A Viking Saga, The Indian Doctor, Da Vinci's Demons, and Bang. In Emmerdale he reprised his role as PC Brown, and has since returned to Emmerdale this year, in October, as a police officer. Also, this year (2017), Nathan played Mark Illingworth for BBC daytime medical drama, Doctors.

Paul Jones

‘Man In Street who Goodson bumped into’

‘Watch where you’re going!’

With Goodson fearful of whatever creature was after him, he was oblivious to the real people around him, and bumped into Paul Jones' character, receiving a tirade of abuse as he continued towards the market.

Apart from his brief appearance in Torchwood Small Worlds episode in 2006 and providing the voice of The Doctor in the Ian Levine: Shada video in 2013, Paul Jones has worked as a standby carpenter and carpenter for television and film since 2000. Dramas such as Johnny and the Bomb, Skellig, Big Nothing, Sarah Jane Adventures, 36 episodes of Torchwood including Miracle Day, BBC Sherlock, Upstairs Downstairs, Being Human, Broadchurch, Wizards vs Aliens, and Doctor Who for 56 episodes.

Sophie Davies

‘Bully #1’

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Victoria Gourlay

‘Bully #2’

BULLY #1: ‘Hey, you, did you tell on us?’

JASMINE: ‘No.’

BULLY #2: ‘Yes, you did.’

BULLY #1: ‘Yeah. Well, maybe you need a good kicking.

Get those teeth of yours kicked in.’

There is absolutely nothing written about these two girls since their appearance in this episode, which is why I'm putting them both together in this segment.

Their characters showed a high level of animosity towards Jasmine Pearce for reasons unknown, in the playground, and so naturally, the faeries paid them back with their own feelings of rage. Fortunately, we never saw them come to any further harm, and thankfully, no rose petals.

If you are, or you know of both child actors, and what or where they may be acting or whatever they’re doing now – do please email us, so we can update this portion.

Reviews Small Worlds by Tony J Fyler

Tony’s away with the fairies.

Small Worlds brings PJ ‘Sapphire And What-The-Hell-Did-I-Just-Watch-Steel’ Hammond to the world of Torchwood for the first time. When you bring PJ Hammond in, you know a few things – you’re going to end up with a story with high stakes, distinctly and personally realised, there’s going to be some serious creepiness involved, possibly involving photos and time and the gateways between states, and there are always, always, always going to be several levels on which you can watch it or read it.

Go into Small Worlds expecting all that, and you won’t be disappointed. What’s unusual about this story is that for a PJ Hammond script, it’s very ‘daytime,’ very sunny and modern. But let’s not kid ourselves – Small Worlds has plenty of trans-temporal, extra-dimensional creepiness to go around, and a handful of pretty darned effective kills to ramp up the stakes, so that when its final bargain is struck, we believe there really is no other way to save the world.

People are frequently misled into remembering Small Worlds as a sunny, bright, slightly silly story though, because it’s ‘the one with the fairies.’ But that’s to make the central mistake of the story – to see something that looks small and cute and pretty, and think it’s innocent, and well-intentioned, and above all, not dangerous. But even within their own mythology, fairies are misunderstood by the majority of the world’s population. As was probably best pointed out by Terry Pratchett in his novel Lords and Ladies, in older civilisations, fairies were inherently seen as things to be respected and feared, rather than necessarily liked, and under absolutely no circumstances were they seen as the fluttery winged friends of children our generations have made them.

Hammond taps into the older, more primal version of fairykind, while showing the folly of our sanitised, oversweetened version. But in his storyline of fairies from the dawn of time coming to collect their next ‘chosen one,’ the next human child they will steal away from her family and friends, he also highlights two other, deeper concepts.

Jasmine Pierce is a loner child, who likes to play at the bottom of her garden (some things after all are too traditional to ignore). Throughout the course of Small Worlds, we see snapshots of the kind of trauma through which 21^st century children go every day – bullying at school; vicious words and slappings at home; the ever-present threat of paedophiles. While Jasmine is a condensation of experiences more widely spread throughout society, she serves to make a very valid point – she may well be the fairies’ ‘chosen one,’ but every victim of these kinds of trauma is the chosen one to somebody, the special child for whom someone would do anything. It behoves us to keep them safe from all the threats that lay in wait for them – to interpose our version of justice between the innocent and those that would persecute them.

But perhaps more strikingly, Hammond shows us the dangerous alternative. He shows us child-justice – merciless, immediate, entirely disproportionate justice, driven by the unrestrained id, repaying hurt with sudden violence, repaying threat with death in terms of the paedophile who tries to steal Jasmine away. While the fairies themselves show this overreaction throughout the story – killing jack’s former lover Estelle simply, it seems, for sticking her nose into their business, killing Goodson the paedophile for his attempt to take Jasmine away and harm her, and killing Roy, her would-be stepfather, both for harsh words and slaps, and just as much for trying to keep their chosen one away from her fairy friends. But what’s telling is the actions of Jasmine herself – simply standing there, laughing as her would-be schoolyard tormentors are scared out of their wits, and as her fairy friends kill Roy right in front of her. If we fail to protect our children, Hammond suggests, they will protect themselves, and they have none of the balance, none of the fairness to which we as adults like to lay claim.

This utter lack of compromise makes itself felt in the final bargain too. With people dead and dying, both the fairies and Jasmine determined that she should go away with her friends, leaving her mother, her family, everything behind for a life in the eternal, timeless forest, and the Torchwood team prepared to fight them, it’s Jack to whom Jasmine issues her world-destroying ultimatum. These fairies, like those in folklore, can control the elements – and the elements are all they need to destroy the world should they want to. Storms that blow cities down, seas that swallow continents, ice that freezes the survivors, all are within their power – and all they want is one child. The lengths to which they’ll go to get what they want is familiar to every parent who’s ever had a child not want to go to bed, but it’s put into a grand context here - the world versus one child – that will come back to haunt Captain Jack Harkness in The Children of Earth, and which haunt him already with the import of the fairies’ power. Small Worlds gives us a look into two parts of Jack’s past – his wartime romance with Estelle, and his first encounter with the fairies, in which the accidental killing of one of the chosen ones results in fifteen characteristic murders, the throats of all the men in his troop filled with the bright red petals that are the fairies’ calling cards. It’s his experience of their unremitting, uncompromising approach to revenge that gives Jack his uncomfortable perspective. They’ll stop at nothing to get their newest playmate, even the destruction of the world. They will always have the past to retreat to, the ancient forests to play in, and we don’t have that option. So Jack hands Jasmine to her friends, and, with barely a backward glance to say thank you, she goes away with the fairies. Jasmine’s mother loses both the man she’s been with for five years, and her only child, in the space of minutes – her world destroyed by her daughter’s choices, and ultimately by Jack’s decision that one child’s life is worth the world.

Small Worlds is a story that mimics the fairies themselves – when you first look at it, it looks pretty, and sunny, and bright. But by the end of the episode, we’ve gone to the past, witnessed Jack’s capacity for love and heartbreak, seen the dangers that lay in wait for every child, every day, had a horrifying lesson in the instant nuclear retribution instincts of the young, and wept for mistakes made, lives lost and those left behind by the singular self-interest of a child who wants to go and play.

Never – but never – underestimate Small Worlds. It, and they, have the capacity to tear the heart right out of you, and serve a salutary lesson in looking after our youngsters, protecting them from evil, because if we don’t, the fairies, while not a real threat in our world, will represent the reactions of our kids, the furies and scars left on their psyche by the wounds we too easily inflict. 

Interviews Eve Pearce by DJ Forrest

Hello Eve, thank you once again for the opportunity of the interview. 

I was reading up on IMDB about your career to date and you have had an extremely busy life as an actress, from stage to television, films to dramas and a recurring role in Coronation Street in the ‘60’s.  Wow!  Plus you’re also a published poet.

My first introduction to you was as Estelle in Torchwood: Small Worlds.  The story of Estelle’s life and her connection with Jack was well written and it was sad that she became the victim of the faeries games. 

Although it was almost 10 years ago since that role, were there any memorable moments you can tell us about? 

Eve: Memorable Moments:  The rain which drowned Estelle was provided by the Fire Brigade turning their hoses on full pelt.  Of course Jack had warned Estelle repeatedly that her “faeries” were in fact demons and wished her no good.  The other thing I remember vividly was that the path was made of very sharp pieces of flint, and was extremely uncomfortable to lie on!

Believing in the possibility of other existences on our planet such as Estelle did over the faeries, are you as open minded or do you believe that faeries and other such whimsical creatures are just the imaginings of authors for children’s stories?

Eve: I think it’s difficult to tell what is real and what is not, and I wouldn’t completely discount anything one sees or hears in a heightened state of awareness – when people are dying, or very ill, or under the influence of drugs.  Having said that I am fairly cynical about “faeries”!

You’ve been an actress since the early 1960’s, starting out in Z-Cars (I used to watch that show – can still remember the theme tune!!!), and had a recurring role in Coronation Street in 1967, who was your character, did she work in the factory or a regular in the pub?

Eve: I won a Scholarship to RADA when I was 19.  My first job was in weekly rep, in Preston, and I stayed there for just under a year.  In 1960 I played a squatter with 6 children in Coronation Street.  She moved into an empty house in the street.  I think I did 3 episodes.

Some people say that they can’t watch themselves when the programme airs, are you the same, or do you look forward to seeing yourself on screen?

Eve: I remember very clearly seeing myself on screen for the first time.  It was a 30-minute play called BREAK-UP, by John Hopkins, who later went on to edit Z-Cars, and who was a wonderful writer.  I was so nervous at seeing myself on screen that I shook for the entire half-hour!  It only worries me now when I think I could have done better.

You’re a volunteer reader for Interact Reading Service – a charity that arranges therapeutic readings in hospital for stroke victims.  How did you get involved in this charity and can you tell us more about it as it sounds really interesting?

Eve: I have a feeling that somebody who already did this – read to stroke-patients – asked me to join the service.  It seemed to be fairly well-known that stroke patients benefited from it, so I used to read at Barnet and Whittington Hospitals.  I helped to compile a list of Biblical readings which were very popular. I stopped it only when I had to attend a lot of hospital appointments myself.

A few weeks ago I read on one of the Yahoo news articles, that actress June Brown, felt that she had to keep working as her pension wasn’t enough to live on.  Do you feel the same?  Or is it more about the passion to continue acting, as it’s something you’ve always enjoyed.  Do you agree with this?  What are your feelings?

Eve: I quite understand why June says this.  Unless you become a Hollywood Film Star actors are not as well-paid as the public thinks, but in my case it is passion.  I have always been an actor, and I love it!

Have you always had a passion for poetry?  Did it stem from a favourite poet, or poem? 

Eve: Well, I have always enjoyed poetry, but apart from writing at school when I was six, and had a poem published in the PRESS AND JOURNAL, the Aberdeen daily, I did no poetry till I was 70.  I had been painting and drawing before that for a number of years, and needed a change.  I saw an ad, in the local paper advertising a poetry class taken by an Australian poet, Katherine Gallacher who had a 4-hour class on a Saturday afternoon.  She became my mentor, and I have been a poet ever since.

You’re in a short film called “Hands”, can you tell us about this and who you play?

Eve: You seem to know more about HANDS than I do.  Of course I remember doing it, and I have a plaster cast of a hand by my window, but apart from that?

I was watching a Scottish gangster film on Netflix a few months back – The Wee Man, and I have to say, that Maggie stole those scenes, and they were fantastic.  Have you played characters like Maggie before? 

Eve:  You seem very surprised by my appearance and character in THE WEE MAN!  Well, it was Scots and I always feel at home in my native tongue.  As I remember there were actors in it whom I knew, and they were all very nice and pleasant.  It was fun!

What have been the hardest characters to play over the years, on stage as well as films/television?

Eve: I never think of roles in this way.  If I accept something I’m fairly sure I’m going to be able to play it.

You’re involved in the Company of Elders, Sadler Wells Contemporary Dance group.  They say you’re never too old to learn to dance, so will we see you on Strictly…at some point, or is this more for creativity and channeling inspiration?

Photo credit: Gigi Giannella

Eve:  The COMPANY OF ELDERS is an out-reach company run by Sadlers Wells Theatre for people over 60, who want to dance.  Our home is the LILIAN BAYLISS STUDIO, and once a year we get to dance in the Main House, which as you can imagine, is a tremendous thrill.  I joined the C.of G. almost by accident.  I have always loved dancing and one of my daughters, Emma Dewhurst, also a professional actress was studying for her Community Dance Certificate at the Laban Institute of Dance. One of the things she had to do was help with a Community Dance Company and as she was interested in dance for the elderly she chose the C.o.E., and told me I should give it a try.  I said I hated Groups, but she persuaded me to come for a session.  And I was hooked!  We do contemporary dance – mostly in bare feet, and the list of famous choreographers who have worked with us is amazing.  We were the subject of the first IMAGINE programme by Alan Yentob, in which I figure quite heavily.  I think you can still get it on YouTube or something like that.

I like your poem Riot Offspring http://riotoffspring.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/poem-for-riot-offspring-by-eve-pearce.html

Can you tell us about ‘Capturing Snowflakes’ and ‘Woman in Winter’ and where we can purchase a copy?

Eve: CAPTURING SNOWFLAKES is available on Amazon and WOMAN IN WINTER from HEARING EYE website.

I read on IMDB that your poems are anti war themes.  Were they from a particular era, or is it war in general? 
The reason I ask about this, is that on LinkedIn, the causes you care about list Human Rights, Disaster and Humanitarian Relief, Oxfam, Amnesty International, Action Aid and Poverty Alleviation, to name a few.  Those I think would be enough to ignite a stream of words on paper!

Eve: My poems are more concerned with my childhood, but I am certainly anti-war, a member of CND, and particularly against the replacement of Trident Missiles.  Spending trillions of pounds on these things, which could be spent on the NHS, education, homes, etc., seems to me a sin.

You moved to London at the age of 12, from Aberdeen, have you ever returned to Scotland?

Eve:  I return to Scotland at least every two years, otherwise I feel bereft.  It’s the mountains I miss more than anything.  I call myself a Scottish Londoner.  My parents met and married in Nice, on the Cote d’Azur, but my mother was determined that any child of hers should be born in Scotland, so it is very important to me.

Going back to ‘Small Worlds’ – what I liked about Estelle was the life she led, knowing Jack, but assuming she’d been with his father, not the young man who held her in the garden, while she talked about faeries.  When you auditioned for the role of Estelle, what was it about the script that interested you about the character?

Eve: I liked the script. And thought I was right for it.  And I wanted to play opposite lovely John Barrowman!

Have any of your children followed in your footsteps and become accomplished actors/actresses?

Eve: Two of my children are in the business – I married the writer Keith Dewhurst and we had 3 children, Alan now a Producer of Animation, who won an Oscar for Short Animation for PETER AND THE WOLF, (the DVD is great for 7-12 year olds) – Emma, who I have already mentioned, played the young Maggie in THE IRON LADY, and Faith, who has a Law Degree, but whose great passion is Poker.  She keeps us all in our places!

Will you ever hang up your acting shoes? Or are there still roles out there with your name on?

Eve: I shall never stop if I can help it.  I am never at my best when I’m not in work. And luckily people still seem to ask for me.  But nowadays I only ever do things I want to do.  I went to the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds for 11 weeks to play Maria in a new adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.

Other than “Hands”, are there any other projects or events that you’re involved in that we can share with the fans?

Eve: Last week I finished a charming new short film called THE ELDER – not about me, but about the tree - which is said to have magical properties.  It is now being edited, and will then hopefully be shown at Film Festivals.  Shot in Highgate and Queens Woods it will look beautiful and I long to see the first showing.

Thank you so much for a wonderful interview!

Articles Welcome to Issue 6 - Small Worlds

Contents Guide

Articles

Small Worlds Episode Guide

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/articles-small-worlds-episode-breakdown.html

Cottingley Fairies

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/articles-cottingley-fairies-truth-or.html

Megalith & Barrow: Fairy Sightings in the UK

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/articles-megalith-and-barrow-fairy.html

 Jasmine’s View

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/articles-jasmines-view-by-william-green.html

Come Away O Human Child

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/articles-come-away-o-human-child-by-wb.html

Interviews

Guy Adams

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/interviews-guy-adams-by-dj-forrest.html

Mark Morris

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/interviews-mark-morris-by-dj-forrest.html

Trevor Baxendale

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/interviews-trevor-baxendale-by-dj.html

Adrienne O’Sullivan

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/interviews-adrienne-osullivan-by-dj.html

Reviews

Fan Vid Collection

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/reviews-fanvids-collection-small-worlds.html

Bay of the Dead

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/reviews-bay-of-dead-by-mickie-newton.html

Hidden

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/reviews-torchwood-hidden-by-dj-forrest.html

The House that Jack Built

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/reviews-house-that-jack-built-by-mickie.html

The Men Who Sold the World

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/reviews-men-who-sold-world-by-dj-forrest.html

The Undertaker’s Gift

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/reviews-undertakers-gift-by-dj-forrest.html

Who Reviews

Forever Autumn

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/who-reviews-forever-autumn-by-simon.html

The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/who-reviews-greatest-show-in-galaxy.html

The Coffee Shop

Small World Caption Comp x 2

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-coffee-shop-caption-comp-small.html

The Mothership

Daleks Pt 2

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-mothership-daleks-pt-2.html

Fans Fiction

The Dream Curse by Jo Rita Raymer

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/fan-fiction-dream-curse-by-jo-rita.html

Tango of the Exiles by Christopher E. Fain

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/fans-fiction-tango-of-exiles-part-three.html

Viva Torchwood by Doreen Freitag

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/09/fans-fiction-viva-torchwood-chapter-6.html

Locations

Small Worlds Locations

https://projecttorchwood.blogspot.com/2013/10/locations-small-worlds-by-john-bond.html

Editor’s Note

Hi All,

     It’s been a funny old month with many of us dealing with offline issues but despite that we’ve still managed to pull together an amazing line up of interviews, articles, reviews, fiction and locations.  It’s surprising what you can achieve even when your personal life takes over a little!

     Please give a round of applause to Nikki, Sarah and Karina for stepping in at the last minute to give us some fabulous Cover Art while Toshiko was busy elsewhere – diolch yn fawr. 

     We’ve had fun putting this Issue together, there are two interesting articles on fairies, the famous ‘Cottingley’ story and the ‘Megalith and Barrow’ article which tells of fairy sightings around the UK.  We’ve also a short article from William Green about Jasmine Pearce.

     The Reviews Page has been somewhat overflowing with books and audios this month, but when you have three awesome horror writers of Torchwood novels talking about their books, it’s difficult to know which books and audios to choose, so we sort of nearly covered them all.  Thank you, Mark, Guy and Trevor for taking the time to answer all our questions.

     As this is our Small Worlds Issue we also had an interview with the wonderful Adrienne O’Sullivan who played Lynn Pearce, Jasmine’s Mum, read her interview about her roles in not only Torchwood but Doctor Who.

     There weren’t any Cons & Expo’s this month that people had been able to cover, some are lacking in wi-fi’s and some are working all the hours, so we really hope next month to see more reports coming in, as Edmonton Con looks awesome!

     Next month promises to be even bigger, but for now – Welcome to Issue 6: Small Worlds

~Jack~