When it came to casting, I said to Ella: ‘Look, we can either audition Charlie Craggs or find a trans actor and tell her to play it like Charlie Craggs.’ There were some nerves at the BBC about hiring someone untrained but I’m so glad we stuck to our guns.”įounder of the podcast-within-a-podcast is devoted “boxspotter” and resident believer Abby ( Vigil’s Lois Chimimba), who is bisexual and a full-time carer for her sick mother in Glasgow. It’s a dehumanising term, but Charlie uses her voice so cleverly – with humour and honesty. “The label “trans activist” can be a club with which to beat trans people. Juno Dawson always had Craggs in mind to play her protagonist. I’m so honoured to be part of something so sacred to so many”. She’s played by transgender activist Charlie Craggs, a scene-stealer in her first ever acting role, who describes her casting as “a huge step for the trans community. The leader of the gang (and the drama) is a trans woman, Cleo, who works as a theatre usher, lives on a south London estate and is saving up for surgery. The friends are university dropouts, who now live in different UK cities but stay connected via their hobby podcast. The cat is FINALLY out of the bag: I produced and directed a very gay, very trans OFFICIAL fiction podcast by starring and and it comes out next sunday! #DoctorWhoRedacted 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 /7fFIg4XIoE- Ella is making #DoctorWhoRedacted 💙💙 April 8, 2022