Helen Raynor (born March 27, 1972) is a British television and theatre writer and script editor. Since 2004 she has been one of the two script editors of the revived version of the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who. Her own writing work includes Cake, a fifteen-minute television short for BBC One's Brief Encounters strand shown in May 2006, and a sixty-minute play Running Away With the Hairdresser for BBC Radio 4, broadcast in June 2005. For the theatre she has written Waterloo Exit Two, a short play presented as part of Paines Plough's Wild Lunch season at the Young Vic in 2003. Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ... Script Editor is a program included with Mac OS that allows AppleScripts to be written, debugged, and ran. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ... A broadcast of the long-running and popular British science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... This article is becoming very long. ... BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the primary channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Paines Plough is an award-winning British touring theatre company. ... The Young Vic is a theatre in the South Bank area of central London, which specialises in giving opportunities to young actors and directors. ...

Raynor attended Trinity Hall at Cambridge University. Her initial career was in the theatre, where she worked for eight years as a director and assistant director for the Bush Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Clwyd Theatr Cymru, the Royal Opera House and Opera North. Her RSC Fringe production of Soho by Rebecca Lenkiewicz won a Fringe First at the 2000 Edinburgh Festival. Switching to television, from 2002 to 2004 she was a script editor on BBC One's daytime medical soap opera Doctors. Full name College of Scholars of the Holy Trinity of Norwich Motto - Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names - Established 1350 Sister College University College All Souls College Master Prof. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ... A theatre director is a principal in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a play by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. ... Bush Theatre, based in Shepherds Bush, London, is one of Britains leading new writing theatres. ... Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. ... Clwyd Theatr Cymru, known until 1998 as Theatr Clwyd, is a regional arts centre located 1 mile (2 km) from Mold, Flintshire, in north-east Wales. ... The Floral Hall of the Royal Opera House The Royal Opera House is a performing arts venue in London. ... Opera North is a British opera company. ... Rebecca Lenkiewicz is a UK theatre writer and actor. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television...

Outside of broadcasting, she has written for Doctor Who Magazine and compiled the script book of the 2005 season of Doctor Who for BBC Books. She also provides an audio commentary for the Doctor Who episode World War Three in the 2005 season DVD boxset, released in November 2005. She later provided a second audio commentary for the series two episode School Reunion in April 2006, this time for free download from the bbc.co.uk Doctor Who website. Doctor Who Magazine (abbreviated as DWM) is a magazine devoted to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... BBC Books is the book publishing division of BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... A major selling point of DVD video is that its storage capacity allows for a wide variety of extra features in addition to the feature film itself. ... World War Three is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on April 23, 2005. ... DVD (sometimes called Digital Versatile Disc, or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... School Reunion is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The URL bbc. ...

In Doctor Who Magazine issue 366 (dated March 1, 2006), it was announced that Raynor would also be script editing the Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood, also produced by BBC Wales. She went on to write one episode of the series herself, with the instalment — entitled Ghost Machine — broadcast on October 29, 2006. March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Torchwood is a British television science fiction and crime drama created by Russell T. Davies and starring John Barrowman and Eve Myles dealing with the machinations and activities of the fictional Torchwood Institute. ... BBC Wales (Welsh: ) is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation for Wales. ... This following is an episode list for the science fiction/drama Torchwood. ... October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Issue 369 of Doctor Who Magazine announced that she would be writing a two-part Doctor Who story for the 2007 series.

References

• Gallifrey Guardian Extra. "Doctor Who Magazine". Issue 354. Cover date July 21 2004.

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External links

• Helen Raynor at the Internet Movie Database.
• Article on "Running Away With The Hairdresser" at bbc.co.uk.
• Review of "Soho".
• Wild Lunch 2003.
• Article on "Cake" at bbc.co.uk.