In an interview on Woman’s Hour on Radio 4, screenwriter and playwright Joy Wilkinson revealed the name of the episode of Doctor Who Series 11 she penned as The Witch Finders.

Wilkinson referred to Jodie Whittaker’s performance as “absolutely luminous.”

An episode known to feature witches was filmed during the third filming block of Doctor Who directed by Sallie Aprahamian, who is known to have directed episodes 4 and 6. Some of the third block filming occurred on location at Little Woodham, a 17th century living museum in Gosport.

Alan Cumming revealed that he will play King James 1 in an episode of Doctor Who. King James personally supervised the torture of accused witches and wrote Daemonologie, a dissertation on black magic.

Wilkinson previously described the episode she wrote to Doctor Who Magazine as “dark, funny, squelchy”.

Why squelchy? Well, for one thing there was some very muddy location filming, according to director Sallie Aprahamian in Doctor Who Magazine:

“The weather was not kind to us on one of the episodes – howling rain storms, snow, lots of mud and bright sunshine, sometimes within minutes of each other. The cast and crew were amazing, working on through with good humour and craft. That’s how Doctor Whomagic sometimes has to happen.”

And there is a character called a Mud Witch in Aprahamian’s filming block.

#DoctorWho casting info: a mud witch in block 3 pic.twitter.com/4C8aCtauOT

— Ruther (@Ruther2) February 24, 2018

The Witch Finders is rumored to be the fourth episode in Series 11, airing on October 28, the Sunday before Halloween.