INTERVIEW BY PAUL KIRKLEY
Lab worker Erica (Rachel Denning) in The Pyramid at the End of the World (2017).
Rachel Denning’s first memory of Doctor Who is playing the theme tune on the recorder at a primary school concert. She was ten years old, and the show had been off the air for a long time. “Even though I was born in 1986, I feel like Doctor Who was always around,” she says. “It’s sort of like a backdrop to life, isn’t it?” What that girl in Essex couldn’t have known was that 20 years later she would not only meet Doctor Who – she’d help him save the world.