THE DEATH AND LIFE OF OWEN HARPER Owen Harper's shock death and subsequent resurrection were two of the best kept secrets in Torchwood series two, and the last few weeks have seen Torchwood focus in the late doctor like never before. At the centre of the drama is actor Burn Gorman, an actor who had imbued Owen with seemingly limitless energy from the off. He tells Torchwood magazine how it feels portraying a dead man. Plus, we take you beneath the surface of A Day In The Death’s underwater sequence with director Andy Goddard, cameraman James Leigh, and Andrew Schaale from Extreme Facilities.

AGING AGYEMAN Taking a close look at the complex procedures behind the making of Torchwood, Torchwood Magazine gets under the skin of Martha’s transformation into her older self in Dead Man Walking. Rob Mayor from Millennium FX talks us through each stage of Freema Agyeman’s painstaking session in the make-up chair, and Freema shares her thoughts on the experience: “I'd been jealous when David Tennant got to have his face done for Doctor Who, so I thought "Finally, I get to go and play with prosthetics, too!' But I won't be standing at the front of the queue again. It's not as much fun as it looks!"

FINGER ON THE PULSE It’s getting darker for Parker in A Day In The Death - we catch up with Richard Briers on set to talk about the role in the new issue of Torchwood magazine. With a fifty-year career behind him, taking in long-running sitcoms, big-screen Shakespeare, and numerous voiceovers for children's TV, you might say Briers has earned the right to arrive on set and get into bed in his silk pajamas: "I love wearing them, and I love being in the bed. I don't have to remember any moves or where to stand. I just have to lie there and say my lines!"