Benjamin Cook

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Dear friends, I'm having an 85th birthday lunch with...the Daleks! I just want to thank you all for the wonderful response to Ben Cook’s DWM interview. Your love and appreciation and friendship over the years means the world to me. And there’s more to come! Love Anneke x

I wonder if Doctor Who fans will be normal about this. bbc.in/46YLFMi

This is a quite boggling read, very enjoyable.

Today’s post. Now have two of the missing 2000ADs and the Megazine

#TodaysBuy #Haul #PhysicalMedia #WhoSky #HorrorSky #FilmSky

Agreed. So many marmalade droppers in this interview. The perfect combination of interviewer and subject.

As ever, I am in awe of @benjamincook.bsky.social's ability to get his interviewees to say things I've never seen them say in an interview before. (From the latest Doctor Who Magazine - buy it, it's superb)

Oh yeah, it is the 60th anniversary of Ben and Polly, the Cybermen and the Second Doctor coming up, huh, that just snuck up. Cool seeing Anneke Wills get the ultimate interview treatment, I hope *everybody* gets one eventually!

Here's the textless cover for the latest issue of DWM, featuring @benjamincook.bsky.social's brilliant interview with the one and only Anneke Wills! Its out in the shops NOW!

Anneke recently gave an interview to Doctor Who Magazine, talking about her Doctors, fighting Daleks and Cybermen, being a part of sixties culture, and her life up to the present day…Out tomorrow in the shops! We will have a limited number of signed copies available from Anneke's website soon!

Doctor Who Tender: The Playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/3P3... To help pass the time till 2028. Or possibly 2029. You’re welcome.

Happy Tender Day to all Who celebrate. www.bbc.co.uk/commissionin...

#eclipse

Football.

Murder Mystery On Train Not So Fun In Real Life https://theonion.com/murder-mystery-on-train-not-so-fun-in-real-life-1819569228/

Oh thank god for a grown-up take on the Doctor Who situation.

Here's William Hartnell, playing Cliff Richard's Dad, in Tyne Tees' 1969 series Life with Johnny. Broadcast in the same week as #DoctorWho The War Games 9, if you wanted to imagine what he might have been like in that...

Evening all! A Doctor Who themed quiz game show!!! 🪩🧩🧠 Play along at home and see how your brain compares to our four brilliant contestants as they try to figure out the most obscure correct answers! youtu.be/DvCCB6UuMLY?...

“I brush up all right, don’t I?” RIP Anthony Head. I interviewed him back in 2006, and he was every bit as gorgeous a human, in every sense, as you’d hope. What a sad loss.

Doctor Who Magazine always has something new and wonderful to offer. This month: Brian Hodgson being fascinating about his crazy Radiophonic life. Where else could one read about theme toon sorceress Delia Derbyshire losing a shoe while boozing and spliffing her tits off in the hills of Ibiza? 😆

It’s all kicking off in Richmond.

The Brian Hodgson interview by @benjamincook.bsky.social in the new DWM is astoundingly good. I’ve fallen a bit in love with him. Getting stoned in Ibiza with Delia Derbyshire! Fancying Waris Hussein! Disproving that Yeti fact! An *excellent* piece of journalism. #DoctorWho #DWM #DoctorWhoMagazine

The latest issue of #DoctorWhoMagazine features an interview with #RadiophonicWorkshop sound engineer #BrianHodgson, who created many sound effects still used today. #DWM continues to provide in-depth coverage of all of #DoctorWho. A digital or print subscription is great value.

The Dalek control room set from The Daleks Master Plan episode 3 - Devil's Planet. Colour version is in Doctor Who Magazine issue 629, out now! Rendered in #Blender3D

Well you can keep your New Yorker! I've reached my Cartoonist's pinnacle! I've got a cartoon in Doctor Who Magazine! The long way round mind you, as its a reprint of one of mine from Big Issue a few weeks back. It's been used in an article about missing episodes.

At my age, 63, the hope of seeing more missing #DoctorWho episodes being recovered was fading fast, until that glorious Easter weekend came along. Now we have a fantastic 35 page section in the latest DWM, something special to remember that wonderful moment, when 97 became 95. Love that cover too!

Well-well-well, the real villain is finally exposed.

Reader, I was one of the 'many more'. I haven't had my copy yet so I don't know how much made it into the final version - I'm obviously not the main attraction! But I can now I say I have made it in Doctor Who enough to have been interviewed by Benjamin Cook for DWM.

I love #DoctorWho Magazine’s combined quality of writing and design; e.g. @garygillatt.bsky.social review insight, humour, cross-references; Ben Willsher’s illustrations amuse (a Dalek leans to peer around Mavic Chen who snootily confronts the Doctor in anti-glare visor); a subtle page watermark.

Absolutely fascinating stuff from @filmisfabulous.bsky.social founder John Franklin in the new DWM article by @benjamincook.bsky.social…! #DoctorWho #DWM #DoctorWhoMagazine