To be perfectly honest, I was quite nervous about meeting Sir John Hurt. I don’t think I really believed that the War Doctor audio series was ever going to happen. But when my boss and co-executive producer at Big Finish, Jason Haigh-Ellery, phoned me and said, “John Hurt wants your telephone number,” I had to face up to the reality... As it turned out, John was delightful and positive throughout the whole recording process. Cynics might sneer that of course I’d say that. It’s a sort of showbiz cliché that everybody says everybody was ‘marvellous and so lovely, darling!’; but to be blunt, I don’t have to bother.
I could have just made comments about him being a great actor, and left it at that.