In the latest episode of the Nostalgia podcast series, Dr Chris Deacy, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, speaks to Dr Helen Brooks Reader in Drama in the School of Arts.

Imagine receiving a birthday card from Doctor Who – well, this is what happened when Helen celebrated her 13th birthday, a topic of conversation which leads to Helen and Chris talking about Peter Davison (who played the fifth incarnation of the time traveller).

In this inspiring interview, Helen and Chris also discuss the works of Samuel Beckett; why her school teachers had tried to dissuade her from taking Drama at A Level; being exposed to an eclectic range of music as a child (from Motown to Handel’s Messiah); why Helen has returned in recent years to writing a diary (and who it is being written for); how her dream was once to be a serious actor on the stage; and why she tries to live in the present.