Doctor Who: Music of the Spheres - Doctor Who at the Proms 2008

Jul 27, 2008

0h 59m

★ 8.8

Overview

A selection of classical favourites with a strong flavour of time and space. Join Freema Agyeman (aka Martha Jones), and others from the Doctor Who cast, for an intergalactic musical adventure - with a little help from Daleks, Cybermen and other aliens from the series!

Genres

Music

Documentary

TV Movie

Production Companies

BBC

Doctor Who: Music of the Spheres - Doctor Who at the Proms 2008 Trailers

Cast

Self - Presenter

Freema Agyeman

Self - Guest Presenter

Catherine Tate

Self

Murray Gold

Self - Soloist

Melanie Pappenheim

Self - Conductor and Arranger

Ben Foster

Self - BBC Philharmonic Leader

Yuri Torchinsky

Davros

Julian Bleach

Dalek (voice)

Nicholas Briggs

Dalek Operator

Barnaby Edwards

The Graske

Jimmy Vee

Hero Monsters

Paul Kasey

Commander Skorr

Dan Starkey

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