Michael Pakenham Michael Pakenham Sir Michael Aidan Pakenham, (born 3 November 1943) is a British retired diplomat. Pakenham is the third son of Labour politician Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, and Elizabeth Harman. He is the brother of Thomas Pakenham, Lady Antonia Fraser and Lady Rachel Billington. He was educated at Ampleforth College and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was an exchange fellow at Rice University. Pakenham was briefly a reporter for the "Washington Post" before joining the Foreign Office in 1965. He served in Nairobi and Warsaw before being seconded to the Cabinet Office 1971–74 as Assistant Private Secretary, then Private
The Woman Who Lived Ricefor students of English language reading in 26 July 2018. The Woman Who Lived "The Woman Who Lived" is the sixth episode of the ninth series of the British sci-fi series "Doctor Who". It was first broadcast on BBC One on 24 October 2015. It was written by Catherine Tregenna and directed by Ed Bazalgette. The episode is set in England, 1651, featuring a highwayman revealed to be Ashildr (now going by the name of "Me" and under the alias of The Knightmare) and "her fire breathing accomplice", when "The Doctor, on the trail of an alien artifact, is brought