:00:00. > :00:10.New details emerge about the three women believed held as modern day
:00:11. > :00:12.slaves in London for 30 years. The police say they are
:00:13. > :00:22.investigating a "complicated and disturbing picture of emotional
:00:23. > :00:26.control over many years". The investigation we are conducting is
:00:27. > :00:30.about abuse, physical, psychological and mental abuse, over a period of
:00:31. > :00:33.time. We are talking about 30 years. The police reveal that the couple
:00:34. > :00:37.detained on suspicion of keeping the women as slaves had been arrested
:00:38. > :00:40.back in the 1970s. The former chairman of the Co-op
:00:41. > :00:44.Bank is arrested and the Chancellor orders an investigation into what
:00:45. > :00:46.went wrong at the Co-op. Five Britons arrested in Russia
:00:47. > :00:54.after a Greenpeace protest are released on bail. The sixth is
:00:55. > :00:57.expected to be freed soon. And America remembers 50 years since
:00:58. > :01:09.the assassination that shocked the world, the death of JFK.
:01:10. > :01:10.In Sportsday, Carl Froch and George Groves get ready for a British
:01:11. > :01:33.boxing grudge match. Good evening.
:01:34. > :01:36.More details have been revealed about the conditions in which three
:01:37. > :01:41.women are believed to have been kept as slaves in a house in south London
:01:42. > :01:44.for 30 years. The police said they may have appeared to outsiders as a
:01:45. > :01:47.normal family and had probably been in contact with public services, but
:01:48. > :01:53.that a complicated and disturbing picture of emotional control was
:01:54. > :01:56.emerging. And the couple detained by police on suspicion of keeping the
:01:57. > :02:08.women as slaves had been arrested many years before. Tom Symonds
:02:09. > :02:14.reports. On an unremarkable S. London St,
:02:15. > :02:17.still unidentified, three women subjected to modern-day slavery for
:02:18. > :02:21.three decades. That is the allegation. The lease are trying to
:02:22. > :02:26.work out how and why it could have happened. -- police. The officer in
:02:27. > :02:32.charge says they were beaten but also restrained by what he called
:02:33. > :02:36.invisible handcuffs. People feel they are controlled, have to do what
:02:37. > :02:41.they are told, and yet to the naked eye there is no control whatsoever.
:02:42. > :02:46.It is all psychological, it might be through fear. That is what we are
:02:47. > :02:48.looking at and why we have specialist help my professionals
:02:49. > :02:54.advising us, and we are taking the investigation very slowly. So they
:02:55. > :02:57.are refusing to answer many questions about the investigation
:02:58. > :03:00.but they did say the victims might have appeared to be a normal family
:03:01. > :03:06.and probably would have come into contact with public services. They
:03:07. > :03:12.revealed the 67-year-old suspects had been arrested in the 1970s but
:03:13. > :03:15.would not say why. They had been questioned on suspicion of slavery,
:03:16. > :03:19.assault and immigration offences. The investigation began with a 12
:03:20. > :03:26.hour search of a house, during which 2500 items of intentional evidence
:03:27. > :03:31.were removed. The entire 37 persons specialist slavery and trafficking
:03:32. > :03:35.team is working on the case which is, as you can see, getting major
:03:36. > :03:39.international media interest. It will take a long time to
:03:40. > :03:44.investigate, they said, which is why both the suspects have been given
:03:45. > :03:49.bail. This started with television news reports, not about slavery, but
:03:50. > :03:52.forced the. The women saw interviews, including this one on
:03:53. > :03:59.BBC News with campaigner Aneeta Prem. They managed to get hold of a
:04:00. > :04:04.telephone and they called her charity's helpline. After discussing
:04:05. > :04:09.their situation, a week later the police were brought in. It is
:04:10. > :04:14.incredibly emotional speaking to them because they have gone through
:04:15. > :04:20.such a harrowing experience. Trying to help them rebuild their lives is
:04:21. > :04:24.going to be a long journey. The Metropolitan Police are doing two
:04:25. > :04:27.raids each week on average in the fight against slavery and
:04:28. > :04:31.trafficking in London, a hidden problem made more complex by the
:04:32. > :04:36.psychological effect on victims. Slavery is violence. When you have
:04:37. > :04:41.violence done to you can mess with your head, so it often requires some
:04:42. > :04:44.outside person to come in and give them a renewed perspective and to
:04:45. > :04:50.say, this is wrong, what has happened to you and here are the
:04:51. > :04:53.options to get out of it. Police are working carefully with the women at
:04:54. > :04:56.an undisclosed location, knowing that their evidence is likely to be
:04:57. > :04:59.key to any future prosecution. Tom is with me now. The police are
:05:00. > :05:02.being very careful what information they release, and it raises almost
:05:03. > :05:09.as many questions as it answers about the life of these women over
:05:10. > :05:16.the last 30 years. It really does. How did a Malaysia on, an Irish
:05:17. > :05:20.woman and and up in the same house 30 years ago? The 30-year-old, was
:05:21. > :05:25.she born in the house? Is she the child of somebody in the house? And
:05:26. > :05:31.why were the suspects of interest to the police in the 1970s. It is
:05:32. > :05:34.interesting that the police have briefed journalists about this case.
:05:35. > :05:39.They clearly want to highlight the condition of slavery, but the
:05:40. > :05:43.trouble is that there are a lot of grey areas when you are trying to
:05:44. > :05:46.define slavery. So it is difficult for the police to say, we know what
:05:47. > :05:50.is going on and here is what is going on, when they are still
:05:51. > :05:54.investigating and this problem is so difficult to pin down because it is
:05:55. > :05:58.so hidden in many of our cities. It is going to be a very long
:05:59. > :06:00.investigation and I suspect we will not get much more detail than we got
:06:01. > :06:03.today. The disgraced former chairman of the
:06:04. > :06:06.Co-op Bank, Paul Flowers, has been released on police bail tonight
:06:07. > :06:08.after being arrested as part of an investigation into the supply of
:06:09. > :06:11.illegal drugs. And the Chancellor George Osborne has ordered an
:06:12. > :06:20.independent investigation into what went wrong at the Co-op. Danny
:06:21. > :06:23.Savage reports. This report contains flash photography.
:06:24. > :06:27.It is not clear how Paul Flowers left the police station in Leeds
:06:28. > :06:33.tonight but there did appear to be a person under a blanket in the back
:06:34. > :06:36.of this car. Throughout the day, the former bank chairman's solicitor
:06:37. > :06:43.faced many questions as he came and went. The police are entitled to
:06:44. > :06:50.make investigations. Is he embarrassed? No comment. Do you
:06:51. > :06:55.think he will be given bail? I hope so. He is a man of good character.
:06:56. > :06:58.Paul Flowers is being questioned in connection with this video in which
:06:59. > :07:02.it is alleged he handed over money to buy cocaine. West Yorkshire
:07:03. > :07:05.Police have been saying for days that they have been looking into
:07:06. > :07:11.allegations surrounding Paul Flowers, and in the last 24 hours,
:07:12. > :07:14.they have acted. But it is the other revelations about his public life
:07:15. > :07:19.that have helped to push this issue right to the top of British
:07:20. > :07:24.politics. Both the government and Labour have faced questions about
:07:25. > :07:27.Paul Flowers and the Co-op Bank. Tonight, the Chancellor confirmed
:07:28. > :07:35.there will be an independent enquiry into events at the bank. In his home
:07:36. > :07:38.city of Radford, Reverend Flowers stood down as a counsellor when
:07:39. > :07:43.adult material was found on his laptop. -- Radford. Other
:07:44. > :07:50.councillors were told he had left due to work pressures. They now want
:07:51. > :07:53.an enquiry about who knew what. I have asked for an investigation and
:07:54. > :07:58.for the results to be published so people can judge who did what and
:07:59. > :08:01.what were their motives. Bradford Council tonight said it will
:08:02. > :08:08.investigate that episode in Paul Flowers's life. Despite now being
:08:09. > :08:15.suspended from the Methodist Church, Paul Flowers will be allowed to stay
:08:16. > :08:18.in the house they provide for him. The 63-year-old was tonight granted
:08:19. > :08:22.unconditional bail. He will have to report to police in the New Year.
:08:23. > :08:27.Five Britons who were imprisoned in Russia have been released on bail.
:08:28. > :08:29.The group were among 30 protesters and journalists seized on a
:08:30. > :08:34.Greenpeace ship while protesting against oil drilling in the Arctic.
:08:35. > :08:36.The five freed today were the freelance journalist Kieron Bryan,
:08:37. > :08:39.Alexandra Harris, a Greenpeace campaigner from Exeter, Anthony
:08:40. > :08:41.Perret, a campaigner from Newport in South Wales, Ian Rogers, a
:08:42. > :08:49.Greenpeace activist from Devon, and Frank Hewetson from London. A sixth
:08:50. > :08:52.Briton, Phillip Ball, was given bail but remains in custody for now. From
:08:53. > :09:01.St Petersburg, Daniel Sandford reports.
:09:02. > :09:06.After two months in a Russian prison, suddenly she was out. Alex
:09:07. > :09:12.Harris, the Greenpeace press officer who found her jail time tough. Give
:09:13. > :09:16.me an idea of how difficult the conditions were at times inside. You
:09:17. > :09:25.know, the first week was really hard. It was nerve racking, not
:09:26. > :09:31.knowing what was going on. I was in a cell on my own. It was scary. You
:09:32. > :09:39.get used to it, but it is tough. You are on your own all the time. The
:09:40. > :09:45.British activists emerged from three different Saint Petersburg cousins.
:09:46. > :09:52.Being trapped in a cell for 23 hours a day is something I never want to
:09:53. > :09:55.experience again. These are the fourth and fifth of the Britons
:09:56. > :10:00.being detained here in Saint Petersburg to be released on bail.
:10:01. > :10:09.Only one, Phil Ball, still remains behind bars. It was this protest at
:10:10. > :10:15.Russia's only offshore oil-rich in the Arctic that led to their
:10:16. > :10:22.detention. Special forces landed on their ship. It was a strong first
:10:23. > :10:26.response. But looking up 30 activists from 18 countries led to a
:10:27. > :10:30.fierce diplomatic row, and the Kremlin seems to have decided that
:10:31. > :10:37.with the Winter Olympics in Russia are just around the corner, it was
:10:38. > :10:39.best to end the imprisonment now. Although President Putin is still
:10:40. > :10:49.very critical of Greenpeace's actions. Some of them climbed onto
:10:50. > :10:52.the platform, others attacked our coastguard, they practically rammed
:10:53. > :10:59.our boats coming he told a group of Russian writers. Tonight, relaxing
:11:00. > :11:07.in his hotel, Frank Hewetson said Greenpeace would the wary of
:11:08. > :11:11.targeting Russia again. The Arctic campaign will definitely not stop.
:11:12. > :11:15.For us, it is a huge, iconic campaign. I can see myself probably
:11:16. > :11:21.getting involved in it but I very much doubt that would be in Russia.
:11:22. > :11:26.For now, the Greenpeace crew are stuck in Russia's second city. They
:11:27. > :11:31.are out on bail but they could still be put on trial, on charges of
:11:32. > :11:34.hooliganism. At least 49 people have been killed,
:11:35. > :11:36.including three firefighters, after an enormous section of roof
:11:37. > :11:41.collapsed at a supermarket in the Latvian capital, Riga. Rescue
:11:42. > :11:45.efforts are continuing and police have launched a criminal
:11:46. > :11:55.investigation. It's thought 30 more people could still be trapped under
:11:56. > :11:59.the rubble. Richard Galpin reports. 5000 square feet of this roof
:12:00. > :12:06.collapsed yesterday evening, crushing shoppers below at what was
:12:07. > :12:11.a particularly busy time. There was an almighty crash, as the ceiling
:12:12. > :12:17.started to collapse around us. We were immediately plunged into
:12:18. > :12:20.darkness. Since then, rescue teams have been working around the clock,
:12:21. > :12:27.searching for people trapped under the rubble. This garden being built
:12:28. > :12:33.on top of the roof may have caused the disaster. Sand and other
:12:34. > :12:39.building materials were loaded here in recent weeks, with rainwater
:12:40. > :12:42.apparently adding to the weight. This evening, an anxious wait
:12:43. > :12:51.continues for those whose loved ones are still missing.
:12:52. > :12:56.Thousands of Americans stood in silence to remember resident John F
:12:57. > :12:59.Kennedy today. There were ceremonies with readings and musical
:13:00. > :13:05.performances across the US and President Obama ordered flags to be
:13:06. > :13:07.flown at half-mast. JFK was shot in Dallas 50 years ago, an
:13:08. > :13:14.assassination that shocked the world.
:13:15. > :13:21.A President who offered optimism in an age of uncertainty was Mordtered
:13:22. > :13:24.here. In the aftermath of the assassination, Dallas was calleded
:13:25. > :13:26.the City of Hate. It is still struggling to make sense of what
:13:27. > :13:32.happened. We want in awe of a dreamer who
:13:33. > :13:36.challenged us to literally reach for the moon. Though he himself would
:13:37. > :13:40.not live to see us achieve that goal.
:13:41. > :13:43.America's youngest President, its first Catholic, seemed to offer a
:13:44. > :13:49.fresh vision for a country that was changing fast. His youthful promise
:13:50. > :13:54.and his wife's demur glamour had enchanted much of America. This tour
:13:55. > :13:58.was intended to charm Texas, too. Just a moment, something has
:13:59. > :14:02.happened in the motorcade. Standby, please. There has been a shooting.
:14:03. > :14:09.The hospital has been advised to stand by for a severe gunshot wound.
:14:10. > :14:14.The Presidential car coming up. I can see Mrs Kennedy's pink suit.
:14:15. > :14:18.There is a Secret Service man spread eagled over the top of the car. Not
:14:19. > :14:22.long after, the announcement they all dreaded. President Kennedy has
:14:23. > :14:26.been assassinated. It is official. The President is dead. Daniel
:14:27. > :14:33.Kendrick took me to the spot where he stood 50 years ago, a 15-year-old
:14:34. > :14:37.schoolboy, hoping to shake Kennedy's hand. I saw the President coming. He
:14:38. > :14:43.was like this, he was going like that, it sounded like he was
:14:44. > :14:47.choking. All of a sudden, boom. I saw the look on Jackie Kennedy's
:14:48. > :14:53.face as she turned towards him and as she turned away from that and
:14:54. > :14:58.looked straight at me. And the look of horror on her face really freaked
:14:59. > :15:02.me out. I had to go. I had to run. I had to get out of here.
:15:03. > :15:08.When the shots came from a window in that building, and hit Kennedy there
:15:09. > :15:13.in his motorcade, it was, for many Americans, as though hope itself had
:15:14. > :15:17.died. His reputation is still high. Poll after poll indicates a majority
:15:18. > :15:21.of Americans think he was better than any President who has followed
:15:22. > :15:27.him. At this Dallas University they make a study of JFK's legend. These
:15:28. > :15:32.students know about his womaniseing and the crippling illness he kept
:15:33. > :15:37.secret, still they admire him. For me, Kennedy represents the best of
:15:38. > :15:43.America. John F Kennedy's call for action in his "ask not" speech is
:15:44. > :15:49.still as relevant today as it was in the early '60s. But Kennedy was
:15:50. > :15:56.getting entangled in Veet snap. He was sluggish on civil rights. He
:15:57. > :16:01.died before he could catch the icon of his appeal If he continued to
:16:02. > :16:06.struggle into the future. It may well be than Kennedy will still have
:16:07. > :16:11.this hold on the public's dreams and imagination. Today this city paused
:16:12. > :16:14.to celebrate a President whose murder throws his promise and
:16:15. > :16:18.transformed into him a blank canvass on which Americans can draw their
:16:19. > :16:22.dreams. The US Secretary of State, John
:16:23. > :16:27.Kerry is on his way to join talks in Geneva about a possible agreement
:16:28. > :16:30.about Iran's nuclear programme. Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei
:16:31. > :16:33.Lavrov, has already arrived. The presence of the two men has raised
:16:34. > :16:39.expectation that is a deal can be reached in the coming days. Our
:16:40. > :16:44.Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen joins us. We have been here before.
:16:45. > :16:49.Are people feeling more optimistic this time? Well, Britain's Foreign
:16:50. > :16:53.Secretary, William Hague, has said he is coming as well. It may be they
:16:54. > :16:56.are closer to a deal. They have been talking about this subject - what to
:16:57. > :17:00.do about Iran's nuclear programme, for getting on for ten years now. It
:17:01. > :17:05.is a hard issue for them to solve. They made more progress in the last
:17:06. > :17:08.six or eight weeks or so than they have in the previous decade. There
:17:09. > :17:12.has been a government change in Iran and also I think changes in the
:17:13. > :17:16.position offered by the Western countries particularly, going more
:17:17. > :17:19.towards what Iran says it might be you able to accept. The stakes are
:17:20. > :17:23.really very high. It is all going on in the hotel, the lights over my
:17:24. > :17:26.shoulder are one of general ehave's big hotels. They are all there
:17:27. > :17:30.talking into the night and into tomorrow as well. The stakes are
:17:31. > :17:35.really very high. There has been a lot of talk about the chances of
:17:36. > :17:39.this long smouldering crisis, leading to a Middle East war. Now,
:17:40. > :17:44.if they can make a deal, the chances of that happening will be massively
:17:45. > :17:48.reduced. If they don't make a deal, and they will try again after this
:17:49. > :17:53.meeting if they don't succeed here, but if they can't, then this
:17:54. > :17:57.particularly difficult, dangerous source of tension and violence in
:17:58. > :18:05.the Middle East, will still be there. It is war and peace.
:18:06. > :18:08.Thank you. A priest who played a major role in
:18:09. > :18:11.brokering peace in Northern Ireland has died. Father Alec Reid was a
:18:12. > :18:14.clandestine go-between between the republicans and the British and
:18:15. > :18:17.Irish governments. Later he was a considered a pivotal figure in
:18:18. > :18:21.persuading republicans to put their weapons beyond use. It comes as the
:18:22. > :18:24.Director of Public Prosecutions in Northern Ireland has asked the
:18:25. > :18:26.police to investigate claims in a Panorama programme that British
:18:27. > :18:27.soldiers in a special unit killed unarmed civilians during the
:18:28. > :18:36.Troubles. Chris Buckler reports. He was a priest caught among the
:18:37. > :18:41.madness of violence. The image of Father Alec Reid giving the last
:18:42. > :18:47.rites to a soldier, beaten and shot on the streets of Belfast, still has
:18:48. > :18:51.the power to shock. A funeral was taking place for a
:18:52. > :18:57.victim of a loyalist attack. Corporals David Howe and Derek Wood
:18:58. > :19:01.drove into the cortege. Tensions were high and the Army
:19:02. > :19:07.officers were dragged from their car and brutally killed. Father Reid
:19:08. > :19:15.tried to save them. I felt even more that it was a tragedy that I had
:19:16. > :19:19.tried to stop and didn't. I don't know there was anything more I could
:19:20. > :19:23.have done. Father Reid was at the funeral to
:19:24. > :19:28.deliver a letter from Sinn Fein to the SDLP leader, John Hume. The
:19:29. > :19:32.original envelope ended up stained with blood, but the document was
:19:33. > :19:36.eventually handed over. The peace process Father Reid helped build is
:19:37. > :19:40.an unfinished business and crimes committed during years of violence
:19:41. > :19:45.continue to cause hurt. Last night the BBC's Panorama
:19:46. > :19:49.revealed details of a secret army unit and spoke to soldiers, who said
:19:50. > :19:53.in the early '70s, they operated outside of the law. Today Northern
:19:54. > :19:56.Ireland's Director of Public Prosecutions, called for the police
:19:57. > :20:00.to investigate claims that unarmed civilians were shot. The American
:20:01. > :20:04.diplomat trying to broker a political agreement on how to deal
:20:05. > :20:08.with the past knows that troubled legacy is ever-present. I think the
:20:09. > :20:11.rection as this week and the developments this week show that
:20:12. > :20:15.there is considerable support, both in the public and amongst the
:20:16. > :20:19.political leadership, to make some progress here.
:20:20. > :20:23.They have until Christmas it find an agreement. And that deadline is
:20:24. > :20:27.starting to loom. Securing the work done by Alec Reid and others is seen
:20:28. > :20:29.as vital in a place where old images are a harsh reminder of what used to
:20:30. > :20:40.be. Cricket and England suffered a
:20:41. > :20:43.humiliating batting collapse on the second day of the first Ashes Test.
:20:44. > :20:48.Having bowled Australia out for 295, England made just 132. At the close,
:20:49. > :20:51.Australia had added another 65 without losing a wicket - a lead of
:20:52. > :20:57.224 runs. Our Sports Correspondent, Joe Wilson, is in Brisbane for us
:20:58. > :21:00.now. Joe, where did it go wrong for England? Good question. Maybe we
:21:01. > :21:05.will show you in a couple of minutes' time. One or two clouds in
:21:06. > :21:08.the Brisbane sky today. Fiona, I know these things are all relative
:21:09. > :21:11.but by the end of today, Australia really should be out of sight in
:21:12. > :21:18.this Test Match. What changed yesterday? Well, remember this is an
:21:19. > :21:21.Australian team people here feared had forgotten to win. Yesterday when
:21:22. > :21:25.they ran through England, well, they looked Australian again. As you
:21:26. > :21:30.enter the Gabba ground, there is a picture of Aussie cricketers as
:21:31. > :21:36.working-class heroes, unwashed warriors ready for battle. It is all
:21:37. > :21:39.marketing but suddenly Australia's cricket matches the image. There is
:21:40. > :21:44.nothing fake about Ryan Harris. Charging in is what he does. Too
:21:45. > :21:50.good for Alistair Cook, England one-down in reply to Australia's
:21:51. > :21:54.295. Mitchell Johnson so mocked for inaccuracy, struck before lunch. A
:21:55. > :22:01.faint touch from Trott. 55-2. Kevin Pietersen in his 100th Test, he made
:22:02. > :22:06.18. Caught Bailey, bowled Harris. Michael carbury in his Second Test
:22:07. > :22:14.match battled to 40, but Johnson got him and now England were gripped by
:22:15. > :22:17.Gabba fear. No bell Bell to save them.
:22:18. > :22:21.He made 5. Replays prove the ball was hit here.
:22:22. > :22:26.Three wickets had fallen with the score on 87. Johnsoner to in like a
:22:27. > :22:32.fast bowler reborn. Joe Root helped him. And when Graeme Swann was out,
:22:33. > :22:38.England had lost six wickets for nine runs, in terms of batting
:22:39. > :22:43.collapses, almost an all-time low and England were all out for 136
:22:44. > :22:46.When it doesn't go to plan, there is always a slight feeling of
:22:47. > :22:50.disappointment. We are a pretty confident bunch in our abilities and
:22:51. > :22:54.how we bounce back from disappointing days. By the close,
:22:55. > :23:01.Australia were past #r50 in their second win -- past 50 in their
:23:02. > :23:05.second innings, no wickets down. In short, almost out of sight.
:23:06. > :23:10.We know England capable of great comebacks. They have shown it here
:23:11. > :23:14.three years ago. I guess they have to hope that the crowd boo louder
:23:15. > :23:22.than ever and Stuart Broad bowls better than ever.
:23:23. > :23:25.It's been half a century since the first Dr Who appeared on our
:23:26. > :23:28.screens, followed by ten more. It's the world's longest running sci-fi
:23:29. > :23:31.show and a global brand watched by millions. To celebrate the
:23:32. > :23:34.milestone, a special 50th anniversary episode is being shown
:23:35. > :23:36.on BBC1 tomorrow. Our Arts Editor, Will Gompertz, assesses the impact
:23:37. > :23:42.of the programme from inside the Tardis.
:23:43. > :23:51.50 years ago at 5.15pm on 23rd November 1963, a mysterious exile
:23:52. > :23:56.from another world appeared on BBC One.
:23:57. > :24:02.Get back to the ship. The tone for the show was set not by the writers
:24:03. > :24:08.or producers but by the ingenious techies in the BBC Radiophonic
:24:09. > :24:16.Workshop, who could make lo-fi sound hi-tech.
:24:17. > :24:21.If a goody is going to be really good, he needs a baddie who is
:24:22. > :24:28.really bad. And the programme has created some iconic foes from clone
:24:29. > :24:35.warriors, to cybernetic armies. But it was the introduction, in only
:24:36. > :24:42.the second story of the most heinous, demotic mutants that made
:24:43. > :24:51.it, and then famous, the Daleks. Exterminate. Exterminate.
:24:52. > :24:57.The Dr Has survived the Daleks, so far and as they say, what doesn't
:24:58. > :25:05.kill you, makes you stronger. Dr Who had become a appointment to
:25:06. > :25:12.view. TV must-see. But if you had to give one reason for the show's
:25:13. > :25:21.lasting success. It would be this. DR WHO THEME MUSIC PLAYS
:25:22. > :25:25.To make the Doctor capable of reincarnation was a brilliant idea T
:25:26. > :25:29.allowed the show to stay fresh and the character to develop. Each new
:25:30. > :25:33.doctor would have a different personality and tastes but some
:25:34. > :25:41.characteristics of the Dr Have stayed the same. He is essentially
:25:42. > :25:49.and upper middle class, English eccentric. The square of the otomus.
:25:50. > :25:54.Audiences were falling and enthusiasm within the BBC was
:25:55. > :26:01.waning, the show was closed but then in 2005 under the creative direction
:26:02. > :26:07.of script writer, Russell T Davies, the Whoniverse was brought back to
:26:08. > :26:11.life. The trip of a lifetime. Jeronimo.
:26:12. > :26:14.Academics have discussed philosophical issues arising from
:26:15. > :26:18.it. The programme has been the inspiration for books, films and
:26:19. > :26:23.even electronic music. It is a children's programme that
:26:24. > :26:27.became a cult hit, which turned into a global brand, and perhaps one of
:26:28. > :26:42.the most culturally-significant programmes to have been made.
:26:43. > :26:44.Will Gompertz. Somewhere in time and space.