Today marks the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who, the BBC’s long-running adventure drama featuring the renegade timelord known as The Doctor, who travels through all of time and space in a battered blue police box…otherwise known as the TARDIS.
Growing up British with strong geek genes like I did, I couldn’t avoid the iconic presence of the Doctor’s escapades – mine was the Tom Baker/Peter Davison era – but I never suspected back then what would happen, as I hid behind the sofa from Dalek exterminations and invasions of Cybermen. In the early 2000s, I got to write a story for the Doctor, an audio drama for Big Finish Productions titled Singularity, and it remains a career highlight for me.
After Singularity, I wrote more audios (Kingdom of Silver, Old Soldiers, Shockwave, and Cyberman 2), a novel (Peacemaker) and several short stories (including Museum Peace, which was later made into an audio book). You can find out more about them by clicking on the individual title links, or see all my Doctor Who-related projects here.
It’s been great to be a part of the huge Who-niverse of stories – I got to meet and work with some incredible, talented people, it’s been a real gift. And after six decades of adventures, the Doctor shows no signs of slowing down – so here’s to more of the same!
