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Highwaymen, cat people and Winston Churchill. Here are the geeky bits and pieces we noted in Doctor Who's The Woman Who Lived...
The Woman Who Lived is a fascinating episode of Doctor Who, filled with philosophical discussions and ruminations on the nature of immortality. In truth, on first viewing we weren’t sure there’d be very much to write about in this column this week. However, as a great man once said, ‘life finds a way’. So here are all of the callbacks, similarities and tenuous-but-interesting geeky things we spotted in this week’s episode. If we’ve missed any, make your way to the all-important comments section below!
Your References Or Your Life
Ashildr isn’t the first highwayman to team up with the Doctor; 1982’s The Visitation saw the Doctor and his companions befriend highwayman Richard Mace. Together they thwarted the reptilian Terileptils,...
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Highwaymen, cat people and Winston Churchill. Here are the geeky bits and pieces we noted in Doctor Who's The Woman Who Lived...
The Woman Who Lived is a fascinating episode of Doctor Who, filled with philosophical discussions and ruminations on the nature of immortality. In truth, on first viewing we weren’t sure there’d be very much to write about in this column this week. However, as a great man once said, ‘life finds a way’. So here are all of the callbacks, similarities and tenuous-but-interesting geeky things we spotted in this week’s episode. If we’ve missed any, make your way to the all-important comments section below!
Your References Or Your Life
Ashildr isn’t the first highwayman to team up with the Doctor; 1982’s The Visitation saw the Doctor and his companions befriend highwayman Richard Mace. Together they thwarted the reptilian Terileptils,...
- 10/23/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Liberia boasts Africa's first female elected head of state. But it also has one of the highest rates of violence against women in the world. Here, Emma Thompson and her adopted son Tindy Agaba, a former child soldier, share their diaries of an intimate visit to the people and projects that are empowering the country's daughters
4 February
Tindy I left Garden City, Cairo, where I have been working with refugees, at 5am yesterday. Africa is a funny old world. To go to Liberia from Cairo one has to go to Europe first and then get a connecting flight back to Africa!
In the lounge at Brussels Airport, I bump into George Weah, the former AC Milan player and world footballer of the year who was also an ex-presidential aspirant in Liberia. He hasn't changed at all, except that his beard is becoming grey.
On our way from Liberia's airport to our hotel,...
4 February
Tindy I left Garden City, Cairo, where I have been working with refugees, at 5am yesterday. Africa is a funny old world. To go to Liberia from Cairo one has to go to Europe first and then get a connecting flight back to Africa!
In the lounge at Brussels Airport, I bump into George Weah, the former AC Milan player and world footballer of the year who was also an ex-presidential aspirant in Liberia. He hasn't changed at all, except that his beard is becoming grey.
On our way from Liberia's airport to our hotel,...
- 3/6/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
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