An Adventure in Space and Time asked to create a show that will fill the gap between "Grandstand" and "Juke Box Jury". He has an idea for a science-fiction series with the central character being a "doctor", although he does not know of what. When he tells his colleague Verity Lambert (Jessica Raine) she is hesitant to join the project. She changes her mind when Newman asks her to be the producer, not his assistant. Lambert and the show's director, Waris Hussein (Sacha Dhawan), meet William Hartnell to offer him the lead role in what will eventually be titled "Doctor Who" and, despite some trepidation, he
The Doctor (Doctor Who) the regions" with a Scottish one, and so asked Tennant to affect the same accent he used for the earlier BBC period drama "Casanova". In contrast, Peter Capaldi was explicitly allowed to continue using his native Scottish accent as the Twelfth Doctor. In the Big Finish audio adventure "The Sirens of Time", the captain aboard a German U-boat assumes he is English because of the way he pronounces his words: "So, you speak German ... but you speak it like an English gentleman." The Doctor's clothing has been equally distinctive, from the distinguished Edwardian suits of the First Doctor to