Peter Capaldi Peter Capaldi Peter Dougan Capaldi (born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor, writer and director. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in "Doctor Who" and Malcolm Tucker the spin doctor in "The Thick of It", for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. When he reprised the role of Tucker in the feature film "In the Loop", Capaldi was honoured with several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. As a director, Capaldi won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and the BAFTA
Doctor Who at the BBC: The Plays days of original "Doctor Who theme music" performer Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. A man obsessed with "Doctor Who" brings home a mysterious woman he met at a science fiction convention. Doctor Who at the BBC: The Plays Doctor Who at the BBC: The Plays is a compilation album of three original BBC audio dramas inspired by the effect of the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who" on its fans and others. The plays were originally broadcast separately on BBC Radio on various dates, and the compilation was released to audio CD on 4 September 2006.