One of the greatest joys of editing The Oldie is that I get to read and write about the heroes of my childhood.
What a delight that my favourite Doctor Who, Tom Baker, is on the cover of the September issue.
One of the greatest joys of editing The Oldie is that I get to read and write about the heroes of my childhood.
What a delight that my favourite Doctor Who, Tom Baker, is on the cover of the September issue.
At 92, he’s on top form – and is now playing the greatest detective of them all, Sherlock Holmes, in a new series of audiobooks.
In a rare interview, Tom tells Alexis Parr about the Doctor’s electronic dog, K9, ‘When you think about the Doctor and K9, there is something of the Holmes and Watson relationship – probably reversed. K9 is the factual, analytical and methodical one. The Doctor is more prone to random acts.
‘I’m just projecting here. Stick a deerstalker on K9 and give his nose laser and a pipe – and there’s a whole new TV series for you!’
Other highlights include:
Sarah Sands, former Editor of the Today programme and the Evening Standard, now the Publisher of Hymns Ancient & Modern, calling for a great hymn revival.
On the eve of what would have been her 100th birthday, we tell Beryl Cook’s life story through a series of delicious self-portraits.
Ian La Frenais recalls working on a disastrous film, The Prisoner of Zenda, in Peter Sellers’s last days.
Bruce Beresford, director of Oscar-winning Driving Miss Daisy (1989), wonders why so many megabucks films like The Odyssey have such rubbish scripts.
Cosmo Landesman yearns for the uproarious coffee houses of Dr Johnson’s London – and finds internet-obsessed, dead-silent cafés.
Harry Mount, Editor, The Oldie
