Doctor Who, “Resolution”
New Year’s Special 2019
Written by Chris Chibnall
Directed by Wayne Yip
Starring Jodie Whittaker, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, and Bradley Walsh
Guest Starring Daniel Adegboyega, Nicholas Briggs, Nikesh Patel, and Charlotte Ritchie
Original Broadcast 1 January 2019 (60 minutes)
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Time is an odd phenomenon, now that we have had the time to feel it passing. Novelists and filmmakers toy with it, imagining it running parallel to itself, moving backward, varying its speed, freezing altogether. But I am not sure anyone ever imagined exactly this.
Doctor Who, “The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos”
Series 11, Episode 10
Written by Chris Chibnall
Directed by Jamie Childs
Starring Jodie Whittaker, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, and Bradley Walsh
Guest Starring Mark Addy, Percelle Ascott, Phyllis Logan, and Samuel Oatley
Original Broadcast 9 December 2018 (49 minutes)
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Doctor Who, “It Takes You Away”
Series 11, Episode 9
Written by Ed Himes
Directed by Jamie Childs
Starring Jodie Whittaker, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, and Bradley Walsh
Guest Starring Sharon D. Clarke, Kevin Eldon, Christian Rubeck, Lisa Stokke, and Eleanor Wallworks
Original Broadcast 2 December 2018 (49 minutes)
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Doctor Who, “The Witchfinders”
Series 11, Episode 8
Written by Joy Wilkinson
Directed by Sally Aprahamian
Starring Jodie Whittaker, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, and Bradley Walsh
Guest Starring Alan Cumming, Siobhan Finneran, Tricia Kelly, and Tilly Steele
Original Broadcast 25 November 2018 (49 minutes)
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Doctor Who, “Kerblam!”
Series 11, Episode 7
Written by Pete McTighe
Directed by Jennifer Perrott
Starring Jodie Whittaker, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, and Bradley Walsh
Guest Starring Julie Hesmondhalgh, Leo Flanagan, Claudia Jessie, and Lee Mack
Original Broadcast 18 November 2018 (50 minutes)
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Doctor Who, “Demons of the Punjab”
Series 11, Episode 6
Written by Vinay Patel
Directed by Jamie Childs
Starring Jodie Whittaker, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, and Bradley Walsh. Guest Starring Leena Dhingra, Hamza Jeetooa, Amita Suman, and Shane Zaza
Original Broadcast 11 November 2018 (50 minutes)
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(Image by Bryan Wilkins via Flickr)
Oh, God, here we go. The headline on Nextdoor Waterloo reads “Rooster crows all day long!” All my urban hackles rise, bracing to read a list of nasty, unneighborly gripes from people stuck at home with plenty of energy for vitriol. It was so…
It is as if a vacuum has pulled loved ones out of families’ lives. One day, everything is normal. The next, they may be in a hospital but cannot be visited. Then they are gone, without even a glimpse goodbye.
In the age of COVID-19, it is good to think about some ways we have thought about illness in our music.