Nicola Walker loves doing Doctor Who on audio – but she never wants to appear in the TV series
Nicola Walker has been a Doctor Who companion since 2014 – but if you stick only to the TV series, you might not know it.
The BAFTA-nominated actress plays Liv Chenka – assistant to Paul McGann’s eighth Doctor – in the popular Big Finish audio plays.
“I’ve been doing them for quite a long time now – they’re great and more and more people are listening to them.
“I’ll do those for as long as they ask me to do them. It’s an absolute pleasure, sort of the dream job – great actors, great directors… and people totally committed to making the work as good as possible, but with an air of real kindness. Yeah, I love them.”
But while she’s keen to continue with Doctor Who on audio, the Unforgotten star told us that she has absolutely no desire to cross over into the television version.
“But the nature of audio gives you, I think, a lot more creative freedom. If you could make telly as good as radio, it would be amazing – audio can do things so easily that television can’t.”
You can find the Eighth Doctor’s adventures with Liv Chenka now at bigfinish.com.
Nicola Walker stars in Unforgotten, returning to ITV tonight (Thursday, January 5) at 9pm.