Phil Collinson is a British television producer best known for his work on Doctor Who and Coronation Street.

Collinson has produced several series for the BBC, including the comedy drama Linda Green, and the first seasons of 1950s-set Born and Bred and paranormal thriller Sea of Souls. In January 2004, he started work as the tenth full-time in-house producer of the BBC science-fiction programme Doctor Who.

While he was an actor, the role of Alexander in the 1999 Channel 4 drama Queer as Folk was written especially for him by his friend Russell T Davies. However, after Antony Cotton auditioned for the production team, Davies and his fellow producers felt they had no choice but to offer the role to him instead of Collinson.

In February 2008 Collinson left his position on Doctor Who, to return to Manchester as BBC Head of Drama for the region.

In July 2010 Collinson joined ITV  as the new producer of Coronation Street. His first credited episode aired on 26 July 2010. 

Annette Badland is an English actress known for a wide range of roles on TV, radio and film. She has played Margaret Blaine in the BBC science fiction series, Doctor Who, Birdie Henshall in the drama series, Cutting It, Ursula Crowe in children's science fiction/fantasy series, Wizards vs Aliens, and Babe Smith in soap opera EastEnders and plays Hazel Woolley in BBC Radio The Archers.

Her training took place at East 15 Acting School, London. She has appeared in many television roles including Bergerac (1981–1984), 2point4 Children, Making Out, Summer Hill, Lace, Jackanory, Archer's Goon, The Demon Headmaster, A Little Princess, The Worst Witch, The Queen's Nose and Coronation Street, as well as an early appearance in series one of the Hale & Pace show in a number of sketches. In 1989, Badland also appeared in "The Rough and The Smooth", an episode of All Creatures Great and Small. She played the recurring villain Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen a.k.a. "Margaret Blaine" in the 2005 series of Doctor Who. She also provides commentary on the Doctor Who Complete Series One Box Set, on the episodes "World War Three" and "Boom Town" as a Slitheen. In 2006 she put in an appearance at Larkhall Prison for the eighth series of ITV1 drama Bad Girls. She played Angela Robbins, a disturbing inmate who was suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder.

She has also appeared in many films including Jabberwocky (1977), Beyond Bedlam (1994), Captives (1994), The Grotesque (1995), Little Voice (1998), Beautiful People (1999), and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and appeared in the TV adaptations of Gulliver's Travels (1996) as the farmer's wife, and A Christmas Carol (1999) as Mrs Fezziwig. Badland has performed in several radio dramas including BBC Radio 4's Rolling Home (2001), Smelling of Roses (2003) and an adaptation of George MacDonald's novel At the Back of the North Wind; lead role as DC Gwen Danbury in An Odd Body on BBC Radio 4 Extra. In 2005 she took the role of Hazel Woolley, the "bad seed" adopted daughter of Jack Woolley in the long-running radio soap opera The Archers, and in 2008 appeared in the radio serial The Way We Live Right Now as Tilly Carbury.

Badland was also the presenter of BBC's You and Me in the early 1990s and appeared in the British comedy Three and Out released on 25 April 2008. She also played the sharply conservative Ethel Tonks in the BBC's All the Small Things (April/May 2009) alongside Sarah Lancashire, Neil Pearson, Sarah Alexander and Bryan Dick. In 2009 she appeared in Casualty as a disturbed mother who was always worrying about her daughters.

She has made her debut at the Royal Exchange Theatre, in Manchester, as Madame Arcarti in Blithe Spirit. In 2010, Badland is performing in Caryl Churchill's Far Away at the Bristol Old Vic.

On 5 July 2010 she appeared as a Verger in Doctors. In 2012, Badland appeared as Ursula in the new CBBC science fiction series, Wizards vs Aliens. She was also in BBC's Cutting It, for 4 series.

In the CBBC hit show The Sparticle Mystery, Badland played DoomsDay Dora. She appeared in 5 episodes.

In August 2013 it was announced that Badland would play the role of Mrs FitzGibbons in the Starz television series Outlander.

On 12 December 2013, it was announced that Badland would appear as a regular in the BBC soap opera, EastEnders, playing Babe Smith. She made her first on-screen appearance in the episode broadcast on 31 January 2014.

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Stephen Greif was an award-winning English actor well known for his roles as Travis in Blake's 7, Harry Fenning in three series of Citizen Smith, Signor Donato inCasanova and Commander John Shepherd in Shoot On Sight.

Greif was born in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England in a building originally belonging to Anne Boleyn as a gift from King Henry VIII. He was educated at Sloane Grammar School, where he was school champion at athletics and swimming and represented the school and the county at athletics at the famous White City Stadium amongst others. He briefly attended the Regent Polytechnic before entering a variety of jobs including "trouble shooter" at a well-known TV and radiogram manufacturer and as a negotiator in a boutique West End estate agency before applying for drama school.

He is an Honours graduate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he won numerous awards including Best Actor and Most Promising Actor, and is now an Associate Member. He was a member of the National Theatre Company both at the Old Vic in Olivier�s company and on the South Bank for Peter Hall�s company. Among his productions were Danton's Death, A Woman Killed with Kindness, The Merchant of Venice (with Olivier), Long Days Journey into Night (again with Olivier), The School for Scandal , Richard II, The Front Page and Macbeth. He was invited back to appear with them at Queen's Theatre in the West End in the Italian Comedy Saturday, Sunday, Monday directed byFranco Zeffirelli and Laurence Olivier where he won a Best Actor nomination in the Critics' Circle Theatre Award. Later he was invited to join the National again on the South Bank under Peter Hall in the revival Death of a Salesmandirected by Michael Rudman with Warren Mitchell winning himself another Best Actor Nomination in the Olivier Awards. He was back again at the invitation of Nick Hytner to join his inaugural season appearing in "His Girl Friday", "Edmund" and the Christmas show "His Dark Materials" directed by Hytner. He was with Elaine Stritch in The Gingerbread Lady, Denholm Elliott in "The Paranormalist", Frank Langella in Abracadaver, Albert Finney in Ronald Harwood�sReflected Glory, Felicity Kendal and Frances de la Tour in Fallen Angels, Joseph Fiennes in George Dillon and Lesley Manville in Six Degrees of Separation.

Greif has been in many films including Lasse Hallstr�m�s Casanova, Shoot on Sight, Eichmann, Spartan, The Upside of Anger, Boogie Woogie and Fakers. His many TV appearances include Spooks, Mistresses, He Kills Coppers,Silent Witness and the last ever story of Waking the Dead.

He has recently reprised his role of Travis in two new audio stories of Blake's 7 for Big Finish Productions.

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Humphrey Searle  was a British composer.

He was born in Oxford where he was a classics scholar before studying - somewhat hesitantly - with John Ireland at the Royal College of Music in London, after which he went to Vienna on a six month scholarship to become a private pupil of Anton Webern, which became decisive in his composition career.

Searle was one of the foremost pioneers of serial music in the United Kingdom, and used his role as a producer at the BBC from 1946 to 1948 to promote it. He was General Secretary of the International Society for Contemporary Music from 1947 to 1949.

Works of note include a Poem for 22 Strings (1950), premiered at Darmstadt, a Gogol opera, The Diary of a Madman (1958, awarded the first prize at UNESCO's International Rostrum of Composers in 1960), and five symphonies (the first of which was commercially recorded by Sir Adrian Boult).

Searle wrote the monographs Twentieth Century Counterpoint and The Music of Franz Liszt. He also developed the most authoritative catalogue of Liszt's works, which are frequently identified using Searle's numbering system.

Searle also composed scores for film and television, including incidental music for the 1963 feature The Haunting and the 1965 Doctor Who story The Myth Makers. 

He died in London. Among his notable pupils were composers Hugh Davidson, Brian Elias,Michael Finnissy, Geoffrey King, and Graham Newcater.

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Gerard Murphy was an Irish film, television and theatre actor.

He played Richard in the 1988 story Silver Nemesis

Murphy began his career on stage with the Glasgow Citizens Theatre. He branched out into television work with roles in Z Cars, Heartbeat, Father Ted, and The Bill. He narrated the BBC Radio version of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. 

He portrayed Hector in Alan Bennett's The History Boys in a national tour co-produced by the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Theatre Royal Bath.

Perhaps his best-known film roles are as pirate and spy "The Nord" in Waterworld, and as the corrupt High Court Judge Faden in Batman Begins.

He died in 2013 after a battle against prostate cancer.

Tariq Yunus was an Indian actor. He played Cass in the Doctor Who story The Robots of Death.

Also appeared in Bollywood, House of Cards, The Bill, Inspector Morse, Nice Work, Shalom Salaam, Around the World in 80 Days, Scandal, The Deceivers, Screen Two, News at Twelve, The Marksman, Tandoori Nights, The Fourth Protocol, Partition, We'll Think of Something, The Front Line, Mitch, Caught in a Free State, A Talent for Murder, Angels, The Nation's Health, Who Dares Wins, Minder, Play for Today, Shoestring, Hammer House of Horror, The Dick Emery Show, Terry and June, Ashanti, Scene, Strangers, The Quiz Kid, The Professionals, Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse, The Fuzz, Rooms, East of Elephant Rock, The Crezz, Crown Court, Gangsters, The Place of Peace, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Father Brown, Sykes, ITV Playhouse, Men of Affairs, The Kids from 47A , The Regiment, Figures in a Landscape, The Wednesday Play

Martin Miller played Kubla Khan in the Doctor Who story Marco Polo. Miller died from a heart attack in Austria.

Worked on Department S, Doctor in the House, The Troubleshooters, Mord nach der Oper, BBC Play of the Month, The Prisoner, The Forsyte Saga, Adam Adamant Lives!, The Baron, Theatre 625, Up Jumped a Swagman, The Avengers, The Third Man, The Saint, A Little Big Business, The Yellow Rolls-Royce, Danger Man, Children of the Damned, The Pink Panther, The Sentimental Agent, Espionage, The V.I.P.s, 55 Days at Peking, The Bergonzi Hand, Incident at Midnight, The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre, The Fast Lady, Ghost Squad, Zero One, Man of the World, Dial RIX, The Phantom of the Opera, Echo Four Two, Theatre 70, Exodus, Danger Man, ITV Television Playhouse, Peeping Tom, BBC Sunday-Night Play, The Rough and the Smooth, Expresso Bongo, BBC Sunday-Night Theatre, Libel, Armchair Theatre, Henry IV, ITV Play of the Week, Violent Moment, Mark of the Phoenix, Dixon of Dock Green, Seven Thunders, The Adventures of Aggie, Child in the House, The Baby and the Battleship, Sailor of Fortune, The Gamma People, An Alligator Named Daisy, Man of the Moment, Mother Michel and Her Cat, The Woman for Joe, To Dorothy a Son, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents, Mad About Men, You Know What Sailors Are, Front Page Story, The Genie, Twice Upon a Time, Where's Charley?, Portrait by Rembrandt, Encore, The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp, I'll Get You for This, The Third Man, You Can't Sleep Here, Don't Ever Leave Me, The Huggetts Abroad, Man on the Run, Bonnie Prince Charlie, The Blind Goddess, One Night with You, Counterblast, Mine Own Executioner, The Ghosts of Berkeley Square, Woman to Woman, Night Boat to Dublin, Latin Quarter, English Without Tears, Hotel Reserve, The Adventures of Tartu, Squadron Leader X