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March 6, 2020 18 mins

In the summer of 2017, in a special clip created to air during the Wimbledon tournament, Jodie Whittaker was announced as the newest actor, and the first woman, to take over the iconic role of The Doctor on the long-running British science fiction series, Doctor Who. But while debates raged across the internet about whether or not a woman should play the Doctor, and whether or not women’s voices were important to the long-running series, the thing many people lost sight of is that a woman had played one of the most vital roles in the creation of the series. Her name was Verity Lambert.

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