Podcast appearances and mentions of ellie wallwork

Special guest Ellie Wallwork joins the Calibre team to chat about her experience on the set of Doctor Who in celebration of the show's 60th anniversary. Ellie is an actress with a visual impairment who starred in episode 9 of the 11th series, "It Takes You Away", as the character of Hanne, a blind girl who's been abandoned by her Father in a cabin in the woods. Ellie talks to us about the auditioning and casting experience, as well as her time on set. She also chatted to us about being a volunteer audiobook narrator for Calibre.

What do the stage and screen get right about living with sight loss? For our 20th Anniversary, we gathered Actor and Theatre Maker Samuel Brewer, Actor Ellie Wallwork, and our own Film and TV lover Allan Russell, to discuss media representations of the blind and partially sighted community. Listen to Allan Russell on The Daily Connect every weekday from 9am to 12 noon. Learn more about Ellie Wallwork on her website - www.elliewallwork.com/ Learn more about Samuel Brewer and Flawbored on their Website - www.flawbored.com/ Image: RNIB Connect Radio Bright Green 20th Anniversary Logo

We speak to three visually impaired people working within the entertainment industry. Ellie Wallwork is an actor and writer. She has featured in some very high-profile TV programs: Doctor Who and Call the Midwife and she is currently co-writing an LGBTQ+ short film, released in the new year. Jake Sawyers is an actor, comedian, drag queen and all round entertainer. He has recently written and featured in a couple of TV pilots and is starring in a pantomime of Snow White over the festive period. And Eleanor Stollery is just 11 years old but has already played a big role in a Christmas Carol in the West End. She's also been the voice of a cartoon character in a children's TV program on Channel 5's Milkshake! They join us to talk about their careers so far, their current and upcoming projects and what it's like to navigate such a competitive industry with a visual impairment. Presenter: Peter White Producer: Beth Hemmings Production Coordinator: Liz Poole Website image description: Peter White sits smiling in the centre of the image, wearing a dark green jumper. Above Peter's head is the BBC logo (three individual white squares house each of the three letters). Bottom centre and overlaying the image are the words "In Touch" and the Radio 4 logo (the word Radio in a bold white font, with the number 4 inside a white circle). The background is a bright mid-blue with two rectangles angled diagonally to the right. Both are behind Peter, one of a darker blue and the other is a lighter blue.

Blind actor Ellie Wallwork has appeared in some of the biggest television series in the UK, including Doctor Who and Call The Midwife. Now Ellie has turned her attention to a new short film project. RNIB Connect Radio's Allan Russell spoke to Ellie to find out more. You can get more info about the project here: https://greenlit.com/project/picturesque or find details on how to support the film by following:  Instagram: @Picturesquefilm2023 Twitter: @Picturesque2023 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/picturesquefilm2023 #RNIBConnect Image: Ellie Wallwork & Will Hextall 

This week, Jamie talks to visually impaired actress Ellie Wallwork to talk about how she got into acting, why University wasn't right for her, being in Doctor Who and call the midwife, her future plans and much, much more, enjoy!

A great guest this week with Ellie Wallwork! We have covered an episode of Call the Midwife she starred in. She is an actress, a singer, and a Eurovision fan. Also she is blind. She also had a role in the film Imagine which we covered as well as an episode of Doctor Who which we talk about in this episode. This was a ton of fun to record and we hope you enjoy. Also go find and watch everything that Ellie has been in!  

From Victorian novels to the latest Hollywood blockbusters, sci-fi regularly returns to the theme of blindness. Peter White, who was heavily influenced as a child by one of the classics, sets out to explore the impact of these explorations of sight on blind and visually impaired people. He believes a scene in The Day pf the Triffids by John Wyndham imbued him with a strange confidence - and he considers the power of science fiction to present an alternative reality for blind readers precisely at a time when lockdown and social distancing has seen visually impaired people marginalised. He talks to technology producer Dave Williams about Star Trek The Next Generation's Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge, Dr Sheri Wells-Jensen talks about Birdbox and world-building from a blind point of view in James L Cambias's A Darkling Sea. Professor Hannah Thompson of Royal Holloway University of London takes us back to 1910 to consider The Blue Peril - a novel which in some ways is more forward thinking in its depiction of blindness than Hollywood now. And Doctor Who actor Ellie Wallwork gives us her take on why blindness is so fascinating to the creators of science fiction. Presenter: Peter White Producer: Kevin Core

If you watch Call the Midwife, you may have recently seen a new mother with retinitis pigmentosa, RNIB Connect Radio’s Basil Oxtoby spoke to Ellie to find out more... [Photo shows RNIB Connect Radio logo]

Fan Wonderland welcomes the talented Ellie Wallwork, best known for her work on Doctor Who episode It Takes You Away. Ellie chats to TJ about her hopes for the acting industry to further book disabled actors for relevant roles across the industry, instead of casting abled actors in a disabled role, LGBTQIA+ representation in the industry, the cursed fanfiction that has developed from Ellies’ episode and much more. Ellie is a visually impaired actress and we have endeavoured to make as much of Ellie’s episode accessible to her community as we can, including her episode cover. Content Warning: Brief trigger warning from approx 14 to 18 minutes into episode-discussion around 13 reasons why, self harm, homophobia. Also contains infrequent coarse language, sexual references, discussion of mental health. Ellie Wallwork Link: Twitter: https://twitter.com/EllieWallwork4 Episode Cover Designed by Fan Wonderland Cover Image provided by Ellie Wallwork

Louise Jameson talks about her time in the TARDIS playing Leela, and her reincarnation as a narrator. (Starts at 1.26) Blind actor Ellie Wallwork discusses her recent role in Doctor Who and her love of reading. (Starts at 19.18) We 'Set Phasers to Stun' as Marcus Berkmann takes us through the history of Star Trek. (Starts at 31.35) We chat to audiobook narrator and the voice of Ash Ketchum in Pokemon, Veronica Taylor. (Starts at 43.30) And a return to Louise Jameson for the books of her life. (Starts at 48.00)

Fan Wonderland talks to Ukrainian based artist Alice Blake about her fan art, how she got started, and her advice for other artists as well as talking about multiple fandoms. TJ & Alice discuss how Alice learnt to draw and what inspires her, and how she dealt with uncertainty about her style and how she overcame it. They also discuss how fan art has been utilised within shows recently, Thasmin, Legends of Tomorrow, the consistent killing of LGBTQIA+ characters in TV shows, as well as how Doctor Who has changed for people who are deaf and blind by creating strong characters with actresses such as Ellie Wallwork and Sophie Stone and much more, of course including Alice in Wonderland. Mild spoilers are contained for Doctor Who (2005) episodes including New Years special Resolution. Podcast Cover designed by Fan Wonderland Cover Images Provided by Alice Blake Art Alice Blake Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aliceblakeart/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/aliceblakeart Tumblr: https://aliceblakeart.tumblr.com/ Episode Notes: -TJ mentioned Series/Season 12 on two occasions. What was meant was the 12th Doctor’s Era with Peter Capaldi -The deaf actress in Doctor Who TJ mentioned was Sophie Stone .

The early symptoms of a rare form of Alzheimer's disease, known as Posterior Cortical Atrophy, presents problems for people in seeing and making sense of the world. The disease starts in the visual cortex at the back of the brain. Its impact is devastating and its progression is aggressive. Doug Banks, who is 58 and has PCA, likens it to looking through a shattered mirror. He talks to Peter White about the other ways it affects his life. Alzheimer's Research UK's chief medical officer David Reynolds tells us what's happening to Doug's brain. College student and young actor Ellie Wallwork has had her big break. She is to play the lead guest role in Sunday's episode of Dr Who. She tells Peter White how she got the part and where acting fits into her future aspirations. Presenter: Peter White Producer: Lee Kumutat