Jodie Whittaker And The New 'Doctor Who'

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Hey! Today we're talking with Jodie Whittaker! She is the first woman to play the lead role in the long-running, time-travel-based BBC television series Doctor Who. You'll hear her tell Greta the story of how she got the role, how so many lovely Doctor Who fans have reacted to her casting, and why she thinks her character’s gender, “more so than probably any other role I’ve ever played, is irrelevant.”

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0:00.0	I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still
0:06.1	watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,
0:12.7	soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,
0:18.0	Stories Without End from WBEZ Chicago.
0:25.7	Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure.
0:28.3	Listen wherever you get your podcast.
0:35.3	From WBEZ Chicago, this is NERD.
0:56.1	I'm Greta Johnson, and NERDETT is a show where we talk to your favorite or soon-to-be favorite people about how their passions drive what they do. And today we have a very exciting guest. We are talking to the first lady doctor. Elizabeth Blackwell died like more than 100 years ago, and we brought her back just for this conversation.
1:01.5	It's going to be great. You're going to love it. This is a weird joke. We're talking to Jody Whitaker, actually.
1:06.2	You don't look like an alien. You should have seen me a few hours back. My whole body changed.
1:13.9	Right now, I'm a stranger to myself, and I have to hold my nerve and trust all these new instincts,
1:15.9	shake myself towards them.
1:19.4	I'll be fine in the end.
1:20.6	Hopefully.
1:23.1	But I have to be because you guys need help.
1:24.5	And if there's one thing I'm certain of,
1:27.4	when people need help and never refuse.
1:30.4	Right. This is going to be fun.
1:39.2	This week, our guest is Jody Whitaker, who is playing the 13th Doctor in the BBC series, Doctor Who.
1:40.2	Jody, welcome.
1:42.8	How are you guys? Thank you for having me. I'm really good. I'm so excited to be talking to you. So just for people who aren't familiar with Doctor Who, I want to do like the quickest possible recap, which is essentially to say... Of 55 years.
1:53.7	Exactly, exactly. This is like maybe the longest running probably, right? It's got to be the longest running sci-fi show right i think i mean it's
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