Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Listen

One episode (Listen)
First broadcast Sep 13 2014
Average audience for story: 7.01m + 1.27m iPlayer = 8.28m

REGULAR CAST

Peter Capaldi (The Doctor) Born Apr 14 1958 Click here for Peter Capaldi's entry on The Fires of Pompeii

Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald) Born Apr 27 1986 Click here for Jenna Coleman's entry on Asylum of the Daleks

GUEST CAST

Samuel Anderson (Danny Pink) Born Apr 27 1982 Click here for Samuel Anderson's entry on Into the Dalek

Remi Gooding (Rupert Pink) Born 2003
This is Remi's first and only screen credit to date, but he has appeared on stage, in Matilda: The Musical and in Thriller Live (as the young Michael Jackson). His brother Emile is also an actor/ dancer.

Robert Goodman (Reg) Born Jun 24 1955
Doctor Who credits
Played: Mandrel in Nightmare of Eden (1979, uncredited)
Played: Citizen in Full Circle (1980, uncredited)
Played: Time Lord in Arc of Infinity (1983, uncredited)
Played: Party guest in Enlightenment (1983, uncredited)
Played: Colonist in Frontios (1984, uncredited)
Played: Crewmember in Resurrection of the Daleks (1984, uncredited), The Trial of a Time Lord (1986, uncredited)
Played: Hyperion III officer in The Trial of a Time Lord (1986, uncredited)
Played: Reg in Listen (2014)
Career highlights
Debuted in Get Some In! (1976), then Pipkins (1978), I Remember Nelson (1982), Late Starter (1985), Dempsey and Makepeace (1985), Whoops Apocalypse (1988), Brum (1991), London's Burning (1994), Gangs of New York (2002), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), Spirit Trap (2005), Hustle (2006), Ripper Street (2013), Game of Thrones (2014), Doctors (2015), My Name is Lenny (2017), Terminal (2018), The Feed (2019) and The Nevers (2022).
Facts
Robert's other jobs include being a London tour guide, a Savoy Hotel-trained chef, and a magician in the toy store Hamley's. Robert is also a member of The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, a group of occultists and performers including comic book writer and magician Alan Moore and Bauhaus member David J, who perform occult works consisting of prose poetry set to music.
In 2014 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Rob here.

Kiran Shah (Figure) Born Sep 28 1956
Doctor Who credits
Played: Figure in Listen (2014)
Played: Emojibot in Smile (2017)
Career highlights
Born in Kenya, Kiran made his screen acting debut with The People That Time Forgot (1977), followed by roles in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), The Dark Crystal (1982), Return of the Jedi (1983, as an Ewok), Legend (1985), Gothic (1986), Bullseye! (1990), Space Precinct (1995), The Biggest Step (2002), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), Shameless (2007), Trapped! (2010), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Force Awakens (2015, as Teedo), Game of Thrones (2016), Star Wars: Rogue One (2016, as Oolin Musters), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), Star Wars: Solo (2018), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), Dracula (2020), Worzel Gummidge (2019/21) and Dr Spiderwack's Mind-boggling Compendium of Fantastic Urban Beasts (2023). Kiran has also performed stuntwork on productions such as Candleshoe (1977), Superman (1978), The Great Muppet Caper (1981), Krull (1983), Aliens (1986), Braveheart (1995), Titanic (1997), Spice World (1997), The World is Not Enough (1999), The Hobbit trilogy (2012-14) and The Turning (2020). He is also a member of the team who create parody films with such titles as The Throbbit, Harvey Putter and the Ridiculous Premise and The Dork of the Rings.
Awards
2003: Guinness World Record for the world's shortest stunt performer
2010: Guinness World Record for the world's shortest wing walker
Facts
Kiran, who is 4ft 1in tall, was the scale double for Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. He can also be seen in the music video for Jamie T's Calm Down Dearest (2007). Kiran originally auditioned for the role of R2-D2 in Star Wars, but lost out to Kenny Baker. Kiran has also worked with stage magician Simon Drake, entertaining celebrities on tour, performing as musician Julian Lennon's support act, and performing at Tina Turner's 50th birthday party. Kiran will also forever be immortalised as the Tango Man in the controversial (and sometimes banned) TV commercials for Tango ("You've been Tangoed!"). He's on Twitter.

CREW

Steven Moffat (writer) Born Nov 18 1961 Click here for Steven Moffat's entry on The Empty Child

Douglas Mackinnon (director)
Doctor Who credits
Directed: The Sontaran Stratagem/ The Poison Sky (2008), The Power of Three (2012), Cold War (2013), Listen (2014), Time Heist (2014), Flatline (2014), The Husbands of River Song (2015)
Career highlights
Douglas started out as a director on London's Burning in the early 1990s, then worked on The Bill (1994-95), Thief Takers (1996), The Grand (1997), Gentlemen's Relish (2001), Nice Guy Eddie (2001-02), Murder in Suburbia (2004), The Last Detective (2003/07), Jekyll (2007), Robin Hood (2009), Silent Witness (2004/13), Line of Duty (2012/14), Outlander (2015), Sherlock (2016), Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2017), Knightfall (2017-18) and Good Omens (2019-22). He also wrote and directed the short Sealladh (1992) and Calum Dongle (2011).
Awards
2016: BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Directing in Film or Television (Sherlock)
2020: Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form (Good Omens) - shared with Neil Gaiman
Facts
Here he is on Twitter.

Peter Bennett (producer) Click here for Peter Bennett's entry on The Beast Below

David P Davis (script editor)
Doctor Who credits
Script edited: Robot of Sherwood, Listen, Time Heist, The Caretaker, Kill the Moon, Mummy on the Orient Express, Flatline, In the Forest of the Night, Dark Water/ Death in Heaven, Last Christmas, The Zygon Inversion, The Husbands of River Song (2014-15)
Career highlights
David has also edited scripts for Merlin (2010), Casualty (2011-14) and Electric Dreams (2017), as well as being a researcher on Holby City (2009-10). He wrote an episode of Casualty in 2012, and was an executive producer on Industry (2020-22).
Facts
Here's David on Twitter.

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