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The Doctor (Doctor Who)
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The Doctor is the title character and protagonist in the long-running BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who. The character has also featured in one made-for-television film. In the programme, the Doctor is the alias assumed by a centuries-old alien—a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey—who travels through space and time in his TARDIS, since the shows inception in 1963, the character has been portrayed by twelve lead actors. The War Doctor and an aborted regeneration are counted in his previous cycle of twelve regenerations, a number of other actors have played the character in stage and audio plays, as well as in various film and television productions. The character has been well received by the public, with his enduring popularity leading The Daily Telegraph to dub him Britains favourite alien. On 30 January 2017, Capaldi confirmed that the series would be his last. His kind have dedicated themselves to overseeing all of time and space without interference, the Doctor chose to leave his home by stealing an obsolete TARDIS model as revealed in the 1969 serial The War Games and depicted in the 2013 episode The Name of the Doctor. With this vehicle, the Doctor explores the universe with usually human companions who serve as audience surrogate characters to ask questions which allow the Doctor to provide relevant exposition, spin-off media offer the explanation that his true name is unpronounceable by humans. In The Name of the Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor tells companion Clara Oswald that the name Doctor is essentially a promise he made, the promise itself is revealed in The Day of the Doctor, Never cruel nor cowardly. The Doctors earlier life and childhood on Gallifrey has been little described, the classic programme refers to his time at the Academy and his affiliation with the notoriously devious Prydonian chapter of Time Lords. Some are inspired, some go mad and some run away, when asked to which group he belonged, he replied, Oh, the ones that ran away, I never stopped. In the Armageddon Factor, it is revealed that the Doctor scraped through the Academy with 51% on his second attempt, in The Time Meddler, it is said that the Doctor was fifty years before the Meddling Monk. In Time and the Rani, the Doctor claims to have attended University alongside the Rani, specialising in thermodynamics. In The Time Monster, the Doctor says he grew up in a house on a mountainside and he is later reunited with this former mentor, now on Earth posing as the abbot Kanpo Rimpoche, in Planet of the Spiders. In other media, more has been revealed of the Doctors early life, in the Past Doctor Adventures novel Divided Loyalties, the Doctor recalls his Academy years in a dream induced by the Celestial Toymaker. With this group, he learns about the Celestial Toymaker and travels to his realm in a type 18 TARDIS with Deca members Rallon and Millennia and this leads to the Doctors expulsion from the Academy, condemned to five hundred years in Records and Traffic Control. In The Quantum Archangel, it is revealed the Doctor studied cosmic science alongside the Master, feeling that too much of the Doctors backstory had been revealed by the Seventh Doctors era, writers Andrew Cartmel, Ben Aaronovitch and Marc Platt developed a new direction for the series. Cartmel wished to restore the awe, mystery and strength
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Russell T Davies
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He left the BBC in the early 1990s to work for Granada Television and later became a freelance writer. Davies moved into writing adult television dramas in 1994 and he revived and ran Doctor Who after a sixteen-year hiatus, with Christopher Eccleston, and later David Tennant, in the title role. Davies moved to Los Angeles, California in 2009, where he oversaw production of Torchwood, Miracle Day, after his partner developed cancer in late 2011, Davies returned to the UK, and co-created a new drama for CBBC, Wizards vs Aliens. Stephen Russell Davies was born on 27 April 1963 at Mount Pleasant Hospital in Swansea and his father, Vivian Davies, and his mother, Barbara, were teachers. Davies was the youngest of three children and their only son, because he was born by C-section, his mother was placed on a morphine drip and was institutionalised after an overdose resulted in a psychotic episode. He described his mothers experience as literally, like science fiction and an early inspiration for his writing career. As a child, Davies was almost always referred to by his middle name and he grew up in a household that never switched the TV off until after closedown, and he subsequently became immersed in dramas such as I, Claudius and Doctor Who. One of his first memories, at the age of three, was the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Tenth Planet and he was also an avid cartoonist and comics enthusiast, and purchased series such as Asterix and Peanuts. Davies attended the local Tycoch Primary School in Sketty and enrolled at Olchfa Comprehensive School aged 11, in his first year, the main school buildings were closed off for renovation after inspectors discovered that the cement used in construction had caused other public buildings to collapse. Lessons were instead held in buildings, which influenced Davies imagination to create mystery, science-fiction. He also immersed himself in such as Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence and The Crystal Mouse by Babs H Deal. At age 14, he auditioned for and joined the newly formed West Glamorgan Youth Theatre Company, the groups founder and director, Godfrey Evans, considered him to be a total all-rounder who was talented and popular with the other students. Working with the group allowed him to define his sexual identity and he later came out as homosexual in his teenage years. In 1981, he was accepted by Worcester College, Oxford to study English literature, at Oxford, he realised that he was enamoured with the narrative aspect of fiction, especially 19th-century literature such as Charles Dickens. In 1984, he made his performance for the WGYT. He worked sporadically for the Sherman Theatres publicity department and claimed unemployment benefit in the interim, Davies was taken on as a member of the BBC Wales childrens department in 1985 and given one-day contracts and commissions, such as illustrating for Why Dont You. As he was given three days of work per month by the BBC, he continued to freelance and volunteer for the Sherman Theatre. In 1986, he was approached by the Sunday Sport before its launch to provide a daily strip
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Doctor Who (series 3)
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The third series of British science fiction programme Doctor Who was preceded by the 2006 Christmas special The Runaway Bride. Following the special, a series of thirteen episodes was broadcast, starting with Smith. In addition, a 13-part animated serial was produced and broadcast as part of Totally Doctor Who. The series stars David Tennant as the incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in his TARDIS. In the Christmas special he is joined by Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, the series also introduces Freema Agyeman as the Doctors new companion Martha Jones, who leaves at the end of the series due to her unrequited love for him. John Barrowman also reprises his role as Captain Jack Harkness in the three episodes which serve as the finale. Series three was David Tennants second series in the role of the Doctor, during which he is joined by three companions, Donna Noble, Martha Jones and Jack Harkness, Actress and comedian Catherine Tate was cast as one-off companion Donna Noble for the Christmas special. At the end of the episode the character turns down the chance to travel in the TARDIS, however Tate later reprised her role, following the departure of Billie Piper as Rose Tyler at the end of series two, a new full-time companion was needed. On 5 July 2006 the BBC confirmed that Freema Agyeman would join the show as new companion Martha Jones, Agyeman had previously appeared in the 2006 episode Army of Ghosts. John Barrowman also returned as Jack Harkness for the series finale. Recurring guest stars for the series included Adjoa Andoh, Trevor Laird, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, human Nature is also the first instance of the Doctors previous incarnations prior to his ninth being explicitly referenced through the sketches in The Journal of Impossible Things. A 13-part animated serial, The Infinite Quest, was produced, each installment was approximately three-and-a-half minutes in length and, when compiled, was equivalent to a regular episode. The serial was broadcast in its entirety on 30 June 2007, following the success of the first series, the BBC announced that Doctor Who had been recommissioned for a third series on 16 June 2005, only two months after the announcement of the second series. Recording for the Christmas special began on 4 July 2006, with production on the series beginning on 8 August 2006. Previous writers Paul Cornell, Steven Moffat and Russell T Davies all contributed to the series, with Davies continuing to act as head writer, Phil Collinson and Susie Liggat acted as producers, with Julie Gardner as executive producer. Euros Lyn, Charles Palmer, Richard Clark, James Strong, Graeme Harper, Hettie MacDonald, the episodes in series three are arranged in a loose story arc, Mr Saxon, an alias for the Master. The characters name was first mentioned in The Runaway Bride, the Ministry of Defence shot down an alien craft at Saxons request. Production blocks were arranged as follows, An animated serial, The Infinite Quest, was produced alongside the series and was broadcast as part of the CBBC programme Totally Doctor Who
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Moon
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The Moon is an astronomical body that orbits planet Earth, being Earths only permanent natural satellite. It is the fifth-largest natural satellite in the Solar System, following Jupiters satellite Io, the Moon is second-densest satellite among those whose densities are known. The average distance of the Moon from the Earth is 384,400 km, the Moon is thought to have formed about 4.51 billion years ago, not long after Earth. It is the second-brightest regularly visible celestial object in Earths sky, after the Sun and its surface is actually dark, although compared to the night sky it appears very bright, with a reflectance just slightly higher than that of worn asphalt. Its prominence in the sky and its cycle of phases have made the Moon an important cultural influence since ancient times on language, calendars, art. The Moons gravitational influence produces the ocean tides, body tides, and this matching of apparent visual size will not continue in the far future. The Moons linear distance from Earth is currently increasing at a rate of 3.82 ±0.07 centimetres per year, since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, the Moon has been visited only by uncrewed spacecraft. The usual English proper name for Earths natural satellite is the Moon, the noun moon is derived from moone, which developed from mone, which is derived from Old English mōna, which ultimately stems from Proto-Germanic *mǣnōn, like all Germanic language cognates. Occasionally, the name Luna is used, in literature, especially science fiction, Luna is used to distinguish it from other moons, while in poetry, the name has been used to denote personification of our moon. The principal modern English adjective pertaining to the Moon is lunar, a less common adjective is selenic, derived from the Ancient Greek Selene, from which is derived the prefix seleno-. Both the Greek Selene and the Roman goddess Diana were alternatively called Cynthia, the names Luna, Cynthia, and Selene are reflected in terminology for lunar orbits in words such as apolune, pericynthion, and selenocentric. The name Diana is connected to dies meaning day, several mechanisms have been proposed for the Moons formation 4.51 billion years ago, and some 60 million years after the origin of the Solar System. These hypotheses also cannot account for the angular momentum of the Earth–Moon system. This hypothesis, although not perfect, perhaps best explains the evidence, eighteen months prior to an October 1984 conference on lunar origins, Bill Hartmann, Roger Phillips, and Jeff Taylor challenged fellow lunar scientists, You have eighteen months. Go back to your Apollo data, go back to computer, do whatever you have to. Dont come to our conference unless you have something to say about the Moons birth, at the 1984 conference at Kona, Hawaii, the giant impact hypothesis emerged as the most popular. Afterward there were only two groups, the giant impact camp and the agnostics. Giant impacts are thought to have been common in the early Solar System, computer simulations of a giant impact have produced results that are consistent with the mass of the lunar core and the present angular momentum of the Earth–Moon system
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Doctor Who
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Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963. The programme depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called The Doctor and he explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Accompanied by a number of companions, the Doctor combats a variety of foes, while working to save civilisations, the show is a significant part of British popular culture, and elsewhere it has gained a cult following. It has influenced generations of British television professionals, many of whom grew up watching the series, the programme originally ran from 1963 to 1989. There was an attempt to revive regular production in 1996 with a backdoor pilot. The programme was relaunched in 2005, and since then has been produced in-house by BBC Wales in Cardiff, twelve actors have headlined the series as the Doctor. The conceit is that this is a Time Lord trait through which the character of the Doctor takes on a new body, each actors portrayal differs, but all represent stages in the life of the same character and form a single narrative. The time-travelling feature of the means that different incarnations of the Doctor occasionally meet. The current lead, Peter Capaldi, took on the role after Matt Smiths exit in the 2013 Christmas special The Time of the Doctor, in 2017, Capaldi confirmed he would be leaving at the end of the tenth series. Doctor Who follows the adventures of the character, a rogue Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. He fled from Gallifrey in a stolen TARDIS – Time and Relative Dimension in Space – a machine which allows him to travel across time, the TARDIS has a chameleon circuit which normally allows the machine to take on the appearance of local objects as a disguise. However, the Doctors TARDIS remains fixed as a blue British police box due to a malfunction in the chameleon circuit, the Doctor rarely travels alone and often brings one or more companions to share these adventures. His companions are usually humans, as he has found a fascination with planet Earth, as a Time Lord, the Doctor has the ability to regenerate when his body is mortally damaged, taking on a new appearance and personality. The Doctor has gained numerous reoccurring enemies during his travels, including the Daleks, the Cybermen, and the Master, another renegade Time Lord. Doctor Who first appeared on BBC TV at 17,16,20 GMT, eighty seconds after the programme time,5,15 pm. It was to be a weekly programme, each episode 25 minutes of transmission length. Discussions and plans for the programme had been in progress for a year, writer Anthony Coburn, story editor David Whitaker and initial producer Verity Lambert also heavily contributed to the development of the series
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Science fiction on television
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Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of reality. The combination of initial cost and lower maintenance cost pushed producers into building these techniques into the basic concept of a series. The broad term special effects includes all the techniques here, visual effects involve photographic or digital manipulation of the onscreen image, usually done in post-production. Mechanical or physical effects involve props, pyrotechnics, and other methods used during principal photography itself. Some effects involved a combination of techniques, a ray gun might require a pyrotechnic during filming, stunts are another important category of physical effects. In general, all kinds of special effects must be planned during pre-production. Babylon 5 was the first series to use computer-generated imagery, or CGI, for all exterior space scenes, the technology has made this more practical, so that today models are rarely used. In the 1990s, CGI required expensive processors and customized applications, models have been an essential tool in science fiction television since the beginning, when Buck Rogers took flight in spark-scattering spaceships wheeling across a matte backdrop sky. The original Star Trek required an array of models, the USS Enterprise had to be built in several different scales for different needs. Gerry Anderson created a series of using puppets living in a universe of models and miniature sets. ALF depicted an alien living in a family, while Farscape included two puppets as regular characters, in Stargate SG-1, the Asgard characters are puppets in scenes where they are sitting, standing, or lying down. As animation is completely free of the constraints of gravity, momentum, in general, science fiction series are subject to the same financial constraints as other television shows. However, high production costs increase the risk, while limited audiences further complicate the business case for continuing production. Star Trek was the first television series to cost more than $100,000 per episode, while Star Trek and this enabled merchandising such as toy lines, animated cartoon adaptations, and other licensing. Creative settings also often call for broader story arcs than is found in mainstream television. Science fiction television producers will sometimes end a season with a cliffhanger episode to attract viewer interest. Dark Angel is one of many shows ending with a scene that left critical questions open when the series was cancelled
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BBC One
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BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service and it was renamed BBC TV in 1960, using this name until the launch of sister channel BBC2 in 1964, whereupon the BBC TV channel became known as BBC1, with the current spelling adopted in 1997. The channels annual budget for 2012–13 is £1.14 billion, the channel is funded by the television licence fee together with the BBCs other domestic television stations, and therefore shows uninterrupted programming without commercial advertising. It is currently the most watched channel in the United Kingdom, ahead of its traditional rival for ratings leadership. As of June 2013 the channel controller for BBC One is Charlotte Moore, the BBC began its own regular television programming from the basement of Broadcasting House, London, on 22 August 1932. BBC Television returned on 7 June 1946 at 15,00, Jasmine Bligh, one of the original announcers, made the first announcement, saying, Good afternoon everybody. Do you remember me, Jasmine Bligh, the Mickey Mouse cartoon of 1939 was repeated twenty minutes later. The competition quickly forced the channel to change its identity and priorities following a reduction in its audience. The 1962 Pilkington Report on the future of broadcasting noticed this, and it therefore decided that Britains third television station should be awarded to the BBC. The station, renamed BBC TV in 1960, became BBC1 when BBC2 was launched on 20 April 1964 transmitting an incompatible 625-line image on UHF. The only way to all channels was to use a complex dual-standard 405- and 625-line, VHF and UHF, receiver. Old 405-line-only sets became obsolete in 1985, when transmission in the standard ended, although standards converters have become available for enthusiasts who collect, BBC1 was based at the purpose-built BBC Television Centre at White City, London between 1960 and 2013. In the weeks leading up to 15 November 1969, BBC1 unofficially transmitted the occasional programme in its new colour system, to test it. At midnight on 15 November, simultaneously with ITV and two years after BBC2, BBC1 officially began 625-line PAL colour programming on UHF with a broadcast of a concert by Petula Clark, colour transmissions could be received on monochrome 625-line sets until the end of analogue broadcasting. In terms of share, the most successful period for BBC1 was under Bryan Cowgill between 1973 and 1977, when the channel achieved an average audience share of 45%. On 30 December 1980, the BBC announced their intention to introduce a new breakfast television service to compete with TV-am. On 17 January 1983, the first edition of Breakfast Time was shown on BBC One, becoming the first UK wide breakfast television service and continued to lead in the rating until 1984. The first major overhaul was to axe the deeply unpopular Sixty Minutes current affairs programme and its replacement was the BBC Six OClock News, a straight new programme in a bid to shore up its failing early evening slot
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University of Glamorgan
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The University of Glamorgan was a university based in South Wales prior to the merger with University of Wales, Newport, that formed the University of South Wales in April 2013. The university was based in Pontypridd, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, with campuses in Trefforest, Glyntaff, Merthyr Tydfil, Tyn y Wern, the university had four faculties, and was the only university in Wales which had no link with the University of Wales. In July 2012 the University of Glamorgan and the University of Wales, Newport, the school was owned and funded by the major Welsh coal owners, through a levy of one tenth of a penny on each ton of coal produced by the companies involved. At the outset, the school had 17 mining diploma students, in 1970, the college became a polytechnic. In 2007, ATRiuM, a new facility for teaching and research in media, design, a new Students Union building at the Treforest Campus was opened in September 2010. In July 2012 the University of Glamorgan and the University of Wales, Newport, on 17 December 2012 it was announced that the name for the new university is the University of South Wales. The university at the time of the merger served around 21,500 students, the university had several campuses, Trefforest - the main campus played host to the bulk of academic departments and facilities, including the indoor sports centre and students union. It is accessed via Treforest railway station from either Cardiff, Merthyr or the Rhondda, Glyntaff - housed the Faculty of Health, Sport and Science. All Science and Sport subjects were based here, including Police Sciences, partner colleges - The university had specialised partner colleges throughout South Wales, for example, Barry College for aeronautical engineering. Merthyr Tydfil - Merthyr Tydfil College had become part of the University of Glamorgan Group, Tyn y Wern - Was home to the new Glamorgan Sport Park. ATRiuM - The Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries was based at a Cardiff campus located close to Cardiff Queen Street railway station, mountain Halls Accommodation blocks opened in September 2011. The Students Union was also on the Treforest campus, the Student Union was the home to a number of sports teams, sports clubs and societies as well as TAG, the student newspaper. The building opened in September 2010, the Students’ Union was one of only 7 buildings in Wales to be awarded with an internationally recognized RIBA award in 2011. The Union has also welfare, education and equality support and there was a structure change to Student Council. Oriel Y Bont galleries, an art gallery that hosted a collection of Ernest Zobole paintings, in 2002 the gallery achieved Museum Status. Learning Resource Centre, The library of the university had books and all other facilities as well as daily newspapers from around the country. Online research journals such as Mintel and Keynotes are available for students to use for free, in November 2012, the University of Glamorgan was awarded the Times Higher Education award for Outstanding Support for Students. A Next Generation Networks, IMS Experience Lab One of only 20 UK business schools to get excellent ratings from the government, Centre of Excellence in Mobile Applications and Services
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The Runaway Bride (Doctor Who)
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The Runaway Bride is a special episode of the long-running British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, starring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor. It features Catherine Tate as Donna, who appeared in the TARDIS at the end of the previous episode, the episode opens immediately following the events of Doomsday. The Doctor, still upset at the loss of Rose Tyler, is shocked to find a woman in a wedding dress standing in the TARDIS console room, the woman angrily accuses him of abducting her from her wedding and demands to be returned. She angrily rips open the TARDIS doors, to see that shes actually in outer space and she tells the Doctor her name is Donna, and he does several tests to find out how she got into the TARDIS in-flight. The Doctor returns her to Earth, where she storms off to find a cab to return to her wedding, the Doctor is accosted by robotic Santas, and uses the TARDIS to fly alongside the taxi Donna is in to rescue her from the Santa that is driving it. The flight overloads the TARDIS, and the Doctor is forced to set it down on a nearby rooftop, the Doctor gives Donna a ring that will mask her from the Santas, and escorts her back to her wedding. The Doctor meets Donnas groom, Lance Bennett, whom she had met, the Doctor realises that the ring he gave Donna cannot mask the huon particle signature, and soon the reception hall is attacked by more Santas. The Doctor is able to use the sound system to disrupt the attack and trace the control signal to a ship in orbit around Earth. The Doctor learns that Donnas workplace is owned by the Torchwood Institute, the Doctor asks Lance to take him to the company headquarters and they are accompanied by Donna. The Doctor discovers a secret basement leading to a tunnel under the Thames Barrier. There they find machinery creating huon particles, and a pit that seems to lead straight to the core of the Earth and they are surprised by the sudden appearance of the Empress of the Racnoss, a spider-like species wiped out eons ago by the Time Lords. She shows them that she has control of the company. Lance reveals that he has been working with the Empress, and was responsible for dosing Donnas coffee with huon particles to convert Donna into a key that would free the Empress children. The Doctor and a heartbroken Donna escape, and the Empress decides to use Lance as the key, the Doctor retrieves the TARDIS and takes Donna back to the formation of planet Earth. Back in the present, the Doctor and Donna return to the pit to face the Empress, Donna is captured and put in webbing, and the Doctor is held at gunpoint by the Santas. As the Racnoss are awakened and begin ascending from the pit, the Doctor offers to take the Empress and her kind to a planet where they will not harm anyone but she refuses. The Doctor then reveals himself to her as a Time Lord, using explosives, the Doctor destroys one of the walls of the room, flooding it and the pit with water from the River Thames and killing the Empresss offspring by drowning them. The Empress teleports back to her ship, but due to having used up all her power it is destroyed by human forces said to be acting upon Mr. Saxons orders, the Doctor returns Donna home where she declines an offer to travel with him
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Freema Agyeman
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In 2013, she made her US television debut on The CWs teen drama The Carrie Diaries as Larissa Loughlin, a style editor at Interview magazine. Other television appearances include Old Jacks Boat, Silent Witness, Agyeman also appeared as Penny in the 2015 film North v South. Her mother, Azar, is Iranian, and her father and they divorced when she was a child. Agyeman has a sister, Leila, and a younger brother. Although her mother is Muslim and her father Methodist, Agyeman grew up to be a practising Roman Catholic, when Agyeman began her professional acting career, she chose to use a different spelling of her birth name, Frema, as her professional name, to avoid pronunciation problems. Before securing the part of Martha Jones, Agyemans most famous role was playing Lola Wise in the revived series of ITV soap opera Crossroads. She also had small guest roles in other TV series such as Casualty, Mile High and The Bill, in 2005, Agyeman played Mary Ogden, a scene of crime officer, in an episode of Silent Witness. Agyeman starred as Nana in the independent film Rulers and Dealers, written, Agyeman auditioned for three roles in the 2006 series of Doctor Who. Agyeman later auditioned for the roles of Esme and Adeola Oshodi, in the Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel and Army of Ghosts, Esme was ultimately cut from the final script, but Agyeman was successful in her audition for Adeola. She filmed her role in the series in December 2005 and appeared on screen as Adeola on 1 July 2006, Agyeman studied dance and practiced horseback riding, martial arts and gymnastics, a fact that the producers exploited in order to provide her with more physically arduous action scenes. The production team were impressed by the versatility shown by Agyeman across her three auditions and called her back as a candidate for the new companion. She attended another audition before a final screen-test with Tenth Doctor actor, Tennant left a reassuring note under the door of Agyemans hotel room, and this helped calm any nerves the actress had. Following extensive speculation on who would replace Billie Piper, Agyeman was confirmed to the press as new companion Martha Jones on 5 July 2006, Agyeman began filming for the third series in August 2006 and finished in March 2007. She made her debut as Martha on 31 March 2007 in the episode Smith. A line of dialogue explains that Adeola was Marthas cousin, Agyeman continued to portray the character Martha throughout every episode of the 2007 series. Agyeman returned as Martha in series 4 for five episodes, following the final episode of the fourth series, Agyeman stated that she would be open to reprising the role. She later returned to the series along with other former cast members to mark David Tennants final appearance in The End of Time. In between series three and series four of Doctor Who, Agyeman appeared in three episodes of series 2 of Doctor Who spin off Torchwood, namely Reset, Dead Man Walking and A Day in the Death
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Army of Ghosts
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Army of Ghosts is the twelfth and penultimate episode in the second series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who which was first broadcast on 1 July 2006. It is the first episode of a story, the concluding episode. The episode takes place on contemporary Earth, some time after the Doctors, during this time, the public have become accustomed to intermittent appearances of ghosts. The episode begins with a cold open in which Rose, via narration, recollects her life with the Doctor and she then mentions that this episode is the story of how I died. Rose Tyler and the Doctor decide to visit Roses mother Jackie, Jackie is pleased to see them, but makes a strangely happy remark that her deceased father will be joining them shortly. Despite Roses protestations that her grandfather is dead, Jackie insists that he has returned and has been visiting her for some time, a vaguely humanoid and luminous silhouette appears in the flat, surprising both the Doctor and Rose but delighting Jackie before disappearing. TV broadcasts confirm that this is a phenomenon and Jackie explains that a few months previously millions of ghosts began appearing all over the world. Humans have come to them and believe that they are the manifestations of loved ones. The Doctor dismisses the possibility that these are ghosts and conducts an experiment with the help of the TARDIS and he attempts to trap a ghost and determines that they are not ghosts but are impressions of something forcing its way into this universe. The Doctor tracks the signal back and uses the TARDIS to travel there, the Doctor introduces himself and tells everyone that Jackie is Rose, his companion. They are taken by soldiers to see Torchwoods current director Yvonne Hartman, Ms. Hartman shows the Doctor the source of the ghost energy, an invisible breach in the universe through which a mysterious spherical object has arrived. The Doctor inspects the sphere, declaring it to be a Void ship—which and it is designed to exist in the space between universes, a nothingness called the Void. The ship is completely undetectable by all scientific instruments, Torchwood has no explanation for what the sphere is or how it got there, but they claim responsibility for the ghosts. Torchwood has been conducting experiments on the breach, forcing it open in an attempt to harness it as a source of energy. Ms. Hartman also reveals to the Doctor that his encounter with Queen Victoria in Tooth, unbeknownst to all at this point, an unseen party has infiltrated the institute and has been successful in subverting three Torchwood staff. Meanwhile, Rose slips out of the TARDIS and uses a lab coat she found to masquerade as an employee to explore Torchwood and she gains access to the sphere chamber with the Doctors psychic paper, but is detained by a Dr. Singh. He discovers that Rose is an imposter and informs Ms. Hartman of her presence, Dr. Singh then asks his colleague Samuel, whom Rose recognises as Mickey Smith, to seal the doors. Ms. Hartman questions the Doctor, who admits that the woman in the chamber is really Rose
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Singleton Hospital
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Singleton Hospital is a 550-bed hospital located in Sketty Lane, Swansea, Wales, operated by Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board. The main building was completed in 1968, the hospital adjoins Singleton Park and the Singleton Park campus of Swansea University where there is a nursing school and a school of medicine. Singleton Hospital hosts one of the centres for Swansea University School of Medicine. The main A&E for Swansea is in Morriston, the Maggies Cancer Care Centre for South West Wales is located in the grounds of Singleton Hospital built according to a design by late Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa. Singleton Hospital also benefits from its own Hospital Radio Station, Radio City 1386AM which has been part of the hospital since 1968
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