On a recent set visit to Doctor Who’s studio in Cardiff for Doctor Who Magazine, CP contributor Paul Kirkley reported on the singles that the Time Lord houses on the jukebox in his Tardis. These include Tainted Love, as well as artists including Scissor Sisters and Britney Spears.
This delights Marc Almond, a Whovian since seeing the show’s very first episode in 1963 at his aunt’s house when he was six. Treating us to his rendition of Delia Derbyshire’s classic theme, Marc recalls: “Once the ‘Wooo-ee-oooh’ music came on, with the slightly fuzzy special effects of the title sequence, I was transported.”
Although he stopped watching during Tom Baker’s tenure, Almond explains: “I’ll always have a love for Doctor Who. As a child, I’d do drawings of the show and made a Tardis out of cardboard boxes that I painted blue. I’d sit inside it, imagining it was bigger on the inside, like the Doctor’s Tardis.”