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Orla Brady<\/a> has been talking<\/a> about her character Tasha Lem who will appear in the Doctor Who Christmas episode, \u201cThe Time of the Doctor.\u201d Among the things that she says is that she plays a \u201cgalactic nun.\u201d She\u2019s \u201cthe Mother Superious of the Papal Mainframe.\u201d Here\u2019s the whole interview from Flicks and the City<\/a> \u2013 Doctor Who TV has a partial transcript<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orla Brady has been talking about her character Tasha Lem who will appear in the Doctor Who Christmas episode, \u201cThe Time of the Doctor.\u201d Among the things that she says is that she plays a \u201cgalactic nun.\u201d She\u2019s \u201cthe Mother Superious of the Papal Mainframe.\u201d Here\u2019s the whole interview from Flicks and the City \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,133,80],"tags":[2765,3712,5322,7730,8263,8498,8680,11731,12279],"class_list":["post-20036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-religion","category-doctor-who-science-fiction","category-religion","tag-doctor-who","tag-galactic","tag-interview","tag-mother-superior","tag-nun","tag-orla-brady","tag-papal-mainframe","tag-spoilers","tag-tasha-lem"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Doctor Who Religious Spoilers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Orla Brady has been talking about her character Tasha Lem who will appear in the Doctor Who Christmas episode, "The Time of the Doctor." 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