Since it was launched in 1963 there have been an astonishing 37 seasons of Doctor Who. That’s 848 episodes, 284 stories and 12 Doctors, all of them men. Until now.

On 7 October Jodie Whittaker stepped into the surprisingly roomy interior of the Tardis and became the 13th Doctor and the first woman to hold that role. Her first episode was the most-watched Doctor Who launch in a decade, with an average of 8.2 million people tuning in to watch the first female Doctor.

Speaking to Stylist.co.uk, Whittaker said: “What an extraordinary thing [to be the first female Doctor]. Let it be a moment in history, but let it move forward to the extent that it never gets talked about… that’d be ace.”

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