It Takes You Away

It takes you away...
to see a talking frog

One episode (It Takes You Away)
First broadcast: Dec 2 2018
Audience for story: 6.79m

REGULAR CAST

Jodie Whittaker (The Doctor) Born Jun 17 1982 Click here for Jodie Whittaker's entry on Twice Upon a Time

Mandip Gill (Yasmin Khan) Born Jan 5 1988 Click here for Mandip Gill's entry on The Woman Who Fell to Earth

Tosin Cole (Ryan Sinclair) Born Jul 23 1992 Click here for Tosin Cole's entry on The Woman Who Fell to Earth

Bradley Walsh (Graham O'Brien) Born Jun 4 1960 Click here for Bradley Walsh's entry on The Woman Who Fell to Earth

GUEST CAST

Sharon D Clarke (Grace O'Brien) Born Aug 12 1966 Click here for Sharon D Clarke's entry on The Woman Who Fell to Earth

Kevin Eldon (Ribbons) Born Oct 2 1959
Doctor Who credits
Played: Antimony in Death Comes to Time (2001, audio)
Played: Ribbons in It Takes You Away (2018)
Career highlights
The highly prolific Kevin made his uncredited debut as a seven-year-old boy in the 1966 adaptation by Francois Truffaut of Fahrenheit 451, after which he appeared as an adult in Packing Them In (1992), Blue Heaven (1994), The Sunday Show (1995), Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge (1995), Fist of Fun (1995-96), In the Red (1998), Hippies (1999), This Morning with Richard Not Judy (1998-99), Jam (2000), Black Books (2000), Spaced (2001), Attention Scum (2001), Brass Eye (1997-2001), World of Pub (2001), Big Train (1998-2002), Smack the Pony (2001-03), Nighty Night (2004), Murder City (2004), Green Wing (2004), I Am Not an Animal (2004), Look Around You (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Funland (2005), Popetown (2006), Hot Fuzz (2007), Hyperdrive (2006-07), Saxondale (2007), Hotel Babylon (2008), Skins (2008), Dead Set (2008), Robin Hood (2009), Merlin (2009), The IT Crowd (2010), This is Jinsy (2011), Hugo (2011), Arthur Christmas (2011), Hunderby (2012), It's Kevin (2013), Death Comes to Pemberley (2013), Mr Sloane (2014), Psychobitches (2014), The Kennedys (2015), Bull (2015), Jekyll and Hyde (2015), Stan Lee's Lucky Man (2016), Hoff the Record (2016), Red Dwarf (2016), Game of Thrones (2016-17), Gunpowder (2017), Murder on the Blackpool Express (2017), Inside No. 9 (2018), EastEnders (2018), Damned (2016-18), Midsomer Murders (2018), Johnny English Strikes Again (2018), The Last Kingdom (2018), Cavendish (2019), The Crown (2019), Truth Seekers (2020), Shadow and Bone (2021), Wolfe (2021) and Sanditon (2019-22). Kevin is also the voice of Penfold in the 21st century version of cartoon Danger Mouse (2015-19), and also writes an awful lot of material for the various comedy shows he's appeared in (particularly the sketch shows). He has also served as script editor on Genie in the House (2006) and Popetown.
Facts
Nicheren Buddhist Kevin has also been in a punk band called The Time, and performed stand-up comedy. Here he is on Twitter.

Christian Rubeck (Erik) Born 1980
Career highlights
Norwegian Christian made his screen acting debut in Wild West (2004), after which he turned up in Hawking (2004), Marple: A Murder is Announced (2005), The Girl in the Cafe (2005), Hotel Babylon (2006), SOS: Summer of Suspense (2008), Max Manus: Man of War (2008), Age of Heroes (2011), Amnesia (2014), Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead (2014), Det tredje oyet (2014), The Saboteurs (2015), The Interceptor (2015), Collide (2016), Nobel (2016), Genius (2017), Swimming with Men (2018), Amundsen (2019), Mellem os (2019), The Trip (2021) and Then You Run (2022).
Facts
In 2008, Norway's Elle magazine voted him the third sexiest man.

Lisa Stokke (Trine) Born Mar 25 1975
Career highlights
Norwegian Lisa made her first appearance acting on screen in Jonathan Creek (2001), followed by Long Flat Balls II (2008), Sara & Selma (2011) and Fortitude (2017), but she first rose to prominence on a Norwegian talent show at the age of 18 (despite having laryngitis!). She was the first person to play Sophie in the West End production of the Abba musical Mamma Mia!, and is the voice of the Snow Queen Elsa in the Norwegian dub of Disney's Frozen.

Awards

1999: Citizen of Tromsø
Facts
She released her first album, A Piece of Lisa, in 2006, having already featured on the official cast recording of Mamma Mia! in 1998. In 2020 she joined 10 other singers who'd dubbed Elsa for the international market (including Idina Menzel and Aurora) to perform Into the Unknown at the Oscars ceremony. She is married to cinematographer Tim Jolly. Here she is on Twitter.

Ellie Wallwork (Hanne) Born 2000
Ellie has been blind since birth (due to retinopathy of prematurity), and has also acted in Imagine (2012), Call the Midwife (2013/20) and Here Comes Frieda (2020). She is also a singer/ songwriter, and her work can be seen here. Here she is on Twitter.

CREW

Ed Hime (writer) Born 1980
Doctor Who credits
Wrote: It Takes You Away (2018), Orphan 55 (2020)
Career highlights
Ed's TV writing has included scripts for Skins (2010-11), The Watch (2021), Lockwood & Co (2022), and he has also written for radio and the stage.

Facts

In 2019, Ed was twice arrested as part of the Extinction Rebellion campaign group's activities, charged with public order offences and obstruction of the highway. He was found guilty. You can read about his experience here.

Jamie Childs (director) Born 1988
Doctor Who credits
Directed: The Woman Who Fell to Earth (2018), Demons of the Punjab (2018), It Takes You Away (2018), The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos (2018), as well as the Thirteenth Doctor's reveal trailer (2017)
Career highlights
Jamie started out (credited as Jamie Catchpole Childs) as a production coordinator on First Cut: How to Snare a Millionaire (2009), moving on to second unit director on The Seasoning House (2012) and Poldark (2015). Dropping the "Catchpole", he worked as director on Vera (2016-17), Stan Lee's Lucky Man (2017), Next of Kin (2018), His Dark Materials (2019-20), The Sandman (2022) and Willow (2022). He is also an executive producer on The Sandman and Willow.
Facts
Jamie's career began when he won a competition to direct a trailer for Patricia Cornwell's novel Book of the Dead (2007), after which he directed several ad campaigns, including for the BBC (The White Queen, Strictly Come Dancing), ITV (Encore) and Dove soap's sponsorship of the Four Nations rugby tournament in 2016. In 2022, it was reported that Jamie was dating former Doctor Who companion Jenna Coleman after meeting on the set of The Sandman. Here's Jamie on Twitter.