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Destroying the set - Radio Times, 3 January 2007

The Hub, Torchwood © BBC
As the first series of Torchwood reaches its finale, the Hub - and all of Cardiff - rumbles as if it's about to be swallowed by an earthquake. "We've blown out a few windows but the whole trick of that kind of effect is not to damage the set!" says producer Richard Stokes.

So there's a collapsing girder, cables that fall and spark, and "drop boxes" out of shot, filled with polystyrene debris and dust. "All need to be cued at the same time. After three hours' setting up, the whole thing takes about five seconds to collapse around you."

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