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“It was a real emotional journey,” she shared. She was completely surprised to learn her great-grandmother Louisa had died from breast cancer in 1921, at just 39 years old. Dowden herself has faced significant health challenges, living with Crohn’s disease since she was 19. More recently, at 32, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, requiring extensive treatment, a double mastectomy, and resulting in side effects like a blood clot in her lung. Hearing medical historian Dr. Agnes Arnold-Forster reveal Louisa’s cancer diagnosis in this week’s episode was a shock for her.

Before becoming famous in films like Grease and Saturday Night Fever, he earned his pilot’s license at age 22. During a flight in the early 1990s, he was forced to land in Maine because of thick fog and had to spend the night at a hotel. Lying awake, he was overwhelmed with memories from his childhood. By the time the fog cleared and he could fly again, he had the idea for a story. That story eventually became his children’s book, Propeller One-Way Night Coach, published in 1997, which tells the tale of a boy’s first airplane experience.

Over a career spanning five decades, actress James has often portrayed complex and formidable female characters, like Lady Maud in ‘Blott on the Landscape’ and Milner in the thrilling series ‘Utopia’. While she’s said she’s moved on from playing those types of roles, they, along with her many other performances, have established her as a leading expert in British drama at bringing ‘difficult’ women to life – characters who are strong, often reserved, and carry hidden depths and complicated histories.

By 1963, Brian Hodgson had become a pioneering sound designer at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, responsible for creating the iconic sounds of early Doctor Who – everything from the Daleks’ distinctive voices to the powerful roar of the TARDIS. He’s one of the many voices featured in my new book, You Are Not Alone: A Gay History of Doctor Who, which also includes contributions from original director Waris Hussein, actors Katy Manning, Matt Lucas, Mandip Gill, and Matthew Waterhouse, and current showrunner Russell T Davies. Published in time for UK Pride Month, the book explores how British society’s views on LGBTQ+ rights have changed over the show’s 63-year history.