Doctor Who Vs. Paddington 2

Michael Bond (1926-2017) based his
best known creation on a lone teddy
bear he saw in a shop near London's

Paddington Station. The toy inspired the writer to pen A Bear Called Paddington,

published in 1958. The series of seventy

Paddington Brown titles followed, and

have since been adapted for television

(1975/1989/1997), the stage (1974),

and cinema.

This sequel to Paddington (released in

late 2017) was shown on BBC3 tonight

- it featured Ben Wishaw (as the voice

of the titular bear), Hugh Bonneville,

Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Peter

Capaldi, Hugh Grant, Tom Conti,

Brendan Gleeson, and twenty-one

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• for Bonneville, Imelda Staunton, Michael Gambon, Jim Broadbent, Gus Brown, Cathy Cosgrove and Chris Lyons
• Grant (Buchanan) and Joanna Lumley (Felicity) both starred in The Curse of Fatal Death
• [Tallulah] Jessica [Elina] Hynes [nee Stevenson] (Miss Kitts) was Joan Redfern in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, then [that character's great-grand daughter] Verity Newman in The End of Time, Part 2 - she also voiced Glory Bee for Big Finish's Invaders from Mars (2002)
• Sanjeev Bhaskar (Dr. Jafri) was Colonel Ahmed in Death in Heaven, and voiced Dr. Avishka Sangakkara for The Eight Truths and Worldwide Web (both 2009), and Borusa for The Difference Office (2022)
• Ben [Evan] Miller (Colonel) was the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robot of Sherwood
• Nicholas [Robin Frank] Woodeson (CEO) voiced the Clocksmith for Doom Coalition 3 (2016), and the titular role for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Enzo Squillino Jr. (Giuseppe) voiced Aldo Deluca for The Gift, Juan Romero for Fiesta for the Damned (both 2016), and Chant for The Power of River Song (2019)
• Meera [born Feroza] Syal (Prosecutor) was Dr. Nasreen Choudhry in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood, was Narrator of BBC Audio's The Gemini Contagion (2011) and Borrowed Time (2012), then voiced Arla Decanto for The Truth of Peladon (2022)
• Aaron Neil (Spoon) was Dunlop in The Magician's Apprentice, Varun Singh in Class, then voiced Tir Ram for All-Consuming Fire, Sanukuma Master for The Rulers of the Universe, Priest for The Boundless Sea (all 2015), Aramatz for The Very Dark Thing, Stephano/Klossi/Setebos/ Trink for Maker of Demons, David for UNIT: Silenced, Steven Godbold for Five Twenty-Nine, Computer for World Enough and Time (all 2016), and Gobran for The Poison of Peladon (2022)
• Nadine [Panchita] Marshall (Ms. Peters) voiced Shepstay for Earth Aid (2011), Katrice for You are the Doctor, and Kordel for The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel (both 2015)
• Joel Fry (Postman here & Paddington in Peru) voiced Kinvar/Rogers for Quicksilver (2016), and Justin for No Place (2019)
• David Sant (Steward) was an Auton in Rose
• Maggie Steed [born Baker] (Gertrude) voiced Madamme Rana Zandusia for Mission to Magnus (2009)
• Alex Jordan (Visby) voiced Rank Van Magnastein for The Revolution, Mandeville/Chief/Acolyte for The Library in the Body (both 2014), Heathcote for An Ideal World (2018), Domdaniel Computer for The Scaramancer, Bandit for The Cognition Shift (both 2020), Sergeant Jean Paul Savarin for Seabird One and Visitants (both 2022), Various for The Last Day, and Louis Marchand/Napoleon for Time Schisms! (both 2023)