GRAHAM KIBBLE-WHITE
The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) goes through his old paperwork in The Lie of the Land (2017).
It wasn’t what I signed up for. I’d been given the role of Doctor Who and then they more or less immediately said, ‘We’re going to launch you live on BBC One.’” It feels like a lifetime ago – and for the Twelfth Doctor, it was. On Sunday, 4 August 2013, Zoë Ball announced Peter Capaldi was to play the Time Lord’s next incarnation. “I thought it was going to be like Stars in Their Eyes”, Peter reflected later. “‘Tonight, Matthew, I’m going to be Doctor Who!’…”