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Podcast: Science Fiction
Episode: Loki Who?
Description: PS - man with midlands accent is Alan Moore
There is an ancient English ritual, performed in the grey and rainy times (which is the entire year save 2 weeks in July), when the tribes people gather around a glowing screen and politely pretend that whoever is playing Doctor Who is a great actor.
They never are. But it's not their job to be. The Who actor's singular task is to depict a very particular kind of eccentric Englishness (or, now and again, Scottishness), in an ever so slightly new variety.
As such Tom Hiddleston has been on the "who would...