What do David Tennant, Steven Moffat and Jami Reid-Quarrell have in common? Besides working on Doctor Who, obviously. The answer is, they all grew up in Paisley, Renfrewshire, in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.
“Actually, it was just outside of Paisley, in Linwood, which is a little car factory town, mentioned in The Proclaimers song Letter from America,” Jami clarifies in his gentle Scots accent. “Linwood was an overspill town on the outskirts – about ten miles outside Glasgow. So when I was 16, I just hotfooted it to Glasgow, and started training in acting at the Strathclyde Arts Centre, which was where Robert Carlyle trained. He had left by then, but he came back to teach us a little bit. Then I was kind of on my path from there.