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23/11/2007

'Doctor Who' Producer Verity Lambert Dies

The first Doctor Who producer, Verity Lambert has died at the age of 71.
Lambert was the BBC’s only female producer in 1963 when she worked on the science fiction drama that has a cult following today.
She has also produced dramas including ‘The Newcomers’, ‘Minder’ and ‘Quatermass’ as well as BBC 1 comedy ‘Love Soup’.
Lambert also formed her own independent television company, Cinema Verity in 1985.
She was due to receive the Working Title Films lifetime achievement award at the 2007 Women in Film and Television Awards in December.
She received the OBC in 2002 for services to film and television.
Lambert had just finished producing series two of Love Soup when she died.
Jane Tranter, BBC fiction controller, said: “Verity was a total one-off. She was a magnificently, madly, inspirational talented drama producer.
“She will be hugely missed but her legacy lives on in the dramas she made, in the generations of eager young programme-makers she has inspired.”
Russel T Davies, current writer and executive producer of Doctor Who, added: “There are a 100 people in Cardiff working on Doctor Who and millions of viewers, in particular children, who love the programme that Verity helped create. This is her legacy, we will never forget that.”
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