Feature by JONATHAN RIGBY
Peter Miles at The WHO Store in Blackpool on 7 August 2010. Photo © John Aldred.
Nyder, of course, rhymes with ‘spider’. One of Peter Miles’ unrealised ambitions as an actor was to play Richard III. Shakespeare’s “bottled spider” may have eluded him, but in Security Commander Nyder – righthand man to the insane Davros in the 1975 classic Genesis of the Daleks – Miles gave his admirers a taste of what his crookback king might have been like.