Nicholas Pegg
@nicholaspegg.bsky.social
Actor, writer, director, gardener. Author of The Complete David Bowie. Probably the only Equity member to have played Hamlet, a Dalek and an otter.
I’ve only just stumbled across the fantastic fact that Margaret Thatcher’s 1970s voice coach, who taught her to lower her voice and speak more resonantly, was none other than Catherine Fleming, who voiced the evil Animus in bonkers 1965 Doctor Who serial The Web Planet. The Zarbi’s not for turning!
November 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I’ve only just stumbled across the fantastic fact that Margaret Thatcher’s 1970s voice coach, who taught her to lower her voice and speak more resonantly, was none other than Catherine Fleming, who voiced the evil Animus in bonkers 1965 Doctor Who serial The Web Planet. The Zarbi’s not for turning!
Another very fine piece by Simon about a book that I read and re-read countless times during my formative years.
A long, long post on the novelisation Doctor Who The Revenge of the Cybermen by Terrance Dicks, the first to feature the bohemian Fourth Doctor: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/11/doct... #books #booksky #DoctorWho
Doctor Who The Revenge of the Cybermen, by Terrance Dicks
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November 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Another very fine piece by Simon about a book that I read and re-read countless times during my formative years.
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It’s hardly the most important thing about this story, but could the entire news media please stop getting ‘letters patent’ wrong? It’s a plural noun. The king has issued letters patent. Saying he has issued ‘a letters patent’ is like saying that Wordsworth and Tennyson were ‘a poets laureate’. Bah.
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It’s hardly the most important thing about this story, but could the entire news media please stop getting ‘letters patent’ wrong? It’s a plural noun. The king has issued letters patent. Saying he has issued ‘a letters patent’ is like saying that Wordsworth and Tennyson were ‘a poets laureate’. Bah.
It’s hardly the most important thing about this story, but could the entire news media please stop getting ‘letters patent’ wrong? It’s a plural noun. The king has issued letters patent. Saying he has issued ‘a letters patent’ is like saying that Wordsworth and Tennyson were ‘a poets laureate’. Bah.
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It’s hardly the most important thing about this story, but could the entire news media please stop getting ‘letters patent’ wrong? It’s a plural noun. The king has issued letters patent. Saying he has issued ‘a letters patent’ is like saying that Wordsworth and Tennyson were ‘a poets laureate’. Bah.
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This Specific Dalek has been played by both @nicholaspegg.bsky.social and me. We happily accept the accolade as a couple, though. Thank you, @pinknews.bsky.social.
#DoctorWho
#DoctorWho
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This Specific Dalek has been played by both @nicholaspegg.bsky.social and me. We happily accept the accolade as a couple, though. Thank you, @pinknews.bsky.social.
#DoctorWho
#DoctorWho
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When the world feels grim, I remind myself that I’ve lived through the time of Alan Bennett, David Attenborough, Carl Sagan, Oliver Postgate, ABBA, the Goodies, Kate Bush, I Claudius, Doctor Who, David Bowie and sun-dried tomatoes, and I think good god, we’re the luckiest generation in history.
November 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
When the world feels grim, I remind myself that I’ve lived through the time of Alan Bennett, David Attenborough, Carl Sagan, Oliver Postgate, ABBA, the Goodies, Kate Bush, I Claudius, Doctor Who, David Bowie and sun-dried tomatoes, and I think good god, we’re the luckiest generation in history.
When the world feels grim, I remind myself that I’ve lived through the time of Alan Bennett, David Attenborough, Carl Sagan, Oliver Postgate, ABBA, the Goodies, Kate Bush, I Claudius, Doctor Who, David Bowie and sun-dried tomatoes, and I think good god, we’re the luckiest generation in history.
November 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
When the world feels grim, I remind myself that I’ve lived through the time of Alan Bennett, David Attenborough, Carl Sagan, Oliver Postgate, ABBA, the Goodies, Kate Bush, I Claudius, Doctor Who, David Bowie and sun-dried tomatoes, and I think good god, we’re the luckiest generation in history.
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Huge fun here from the always splendid Toby Hadoke, who invited a whole load of us to nominate the 17 missing Doctor Who episodes we’d most like to see recovered. Whittling it down from 97 was agony, but I hope you’ll approve of my choices… and David Tennant’s, and many more besides. Get clicking!
I’m amazed at the number and quality of folk who contributed to this podcast (a Doctor! 3 companions! Writers! Actors! Lost Episode Finders! Fans of Yore!)
It’s just a bit of fun: a countdown of the most desired missing episodes of Doctor Who. Plus much arcana, natch:
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-8epk3...
It’s just a bit of fun: a countdown of the most desired missing episodes of Doctor Who. Plus much arcana, natch:
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-8epk3...
Indefinable Magic MISSING EPISODES SPECIAL - Fantasy Film Cans (Part One)
With all this missing episodes speculation in the air, your Host With The Most (that is "Most Patience For Wrangling Arcane Facts and Stats Because He's A Very Boring Man") Toby Hadoke has found the t...
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November 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Huge fun here from the always splendid Toby Hadoke, who invited a whole load of us to nominate the 17 missing Doctor Who episodes we’d most like to see recovered. Whittling it down from 97 was agony, but I hope you’ll approve of my choices… and David Tennant’s, and many more besides. Get clicking!
Huge fun here from the always splendid Toby Hadoke, who invited a whole load of us to nominate the 17 missing Doctor Who episodes we’d most like to see recovered. Whittling it down from 97 was agony, but I hope you’ll approve of my choices… and David Tennant’s, and many more besides. Get clicking!
I’m amazed at the number and quality of folk who contributed to this podcast (a Doctor! 3 companions! Writers! Actors! Lost Episode Finders! Fans of Yore!)
It’s just a bit of fun: a countdown of the most desired missing episodes of Doctor Who. Plus much arcana, natch:
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-8epk3...
It’s just a bit of fun: a countdown of the most desired missing episodes of Doctor Who. Plus much arcana, natch:
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-8epk3...
Indefinable Magic MISSING EPISODES SPECIAL - Fantasy Film Cans (Part One)
With all this missing episodes speculation in the air, your Host With The Most (that is "Most Patience For Wrangling Arcane Facts and Stats Because He's A Very Boring Man") Toby Hadoke has found the t...
www.podbean.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Huge fun here from the always splendid Toby Hadoke, who invited a whole load of us to nominate the 17 missing Doctor Who episodes we’d most like to see recovered. Whittling it down from 97 was agony, but I hope you’ll approve of my choices… and David Tennant’s, and many more besides. Get clicking!
I think music peaked in the year I turned 11. So that’ll be a no from me.
Everyone thinks music peaked in the year where they were having the most casual sex
October 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I think music peaked in the year I turned 11. So that’ll be a no from me.
I’ve just learned that Patrick Troughton’s farewell words* to Jamie* and the Brigadier* in the last episode of The Tenth Planet* were “It’s the kindest person I’ve ever met,”* and this is “a classic moment in Doctor Who lore, cherished by fans.”* That should silence those pesky AI haters.
*wrong
*wrong
October 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I’ve just learned that Patrick Troughton’s farewell words* to Jamie* and the Brigadier* in the last episode of The Tenth Planet* were “It’s the kindest person I’ve ever met,”* and this is “a classic moment in Doctor Who lore, cherished by fans.”* That should silence those pesky AI haters.
*wrong
*wrong
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Very much enjoying all the indignant reviews of this new Frankenstein film, written by people who have clearly never read Frankenstein, taking issue with the fact that it appears for once to be based on Frankenstein.
September 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Very much enjoying all the indignant reviews of this new Frankenstein film, written by people who have clearly never read Frankenstein, taking issue with the fact that it appears for once to be based on Frankenstein.
Back in 1981 this extraordinary track was like nothing we’d ever heard before - a whole decade ahead of its time. All these years later, it’s still a total banger. Marc Almond and Cindy Ecstasy on vocals. The mighty Dave Ball on everything else.
youtu.be/Yd6SR5VC5A0?...
youtu.be/Yd6SR5VC5A0?...
Soft Cell / Memorabilia / Extended / Featuring Cindy Ecstasy
YouTube video by REG PLASMA
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October 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Back in 1981 this extraordinary track was like nothing we’d ever heard before - a whole decade ahead of its time. All these years later, it’s still a total banger. Marc Almond and Cindy Ecstasy on vocals. The mighty Dave Ball on everything else.
youtu.be/Yd6SR5VC5A0?...
youtu.be/Yd6SR5VC5A0?...
Together with Marc, Dave Ball brought pleasure, power and positivity to countless young lives, my own included. Raising a glass to one of the greats.
October 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Together with Marc, Dave Ball brought pleasure, power and positivity to countless young lives, my own included. Raising a glass to one of the greats.
Beginning to wonder if headline writers are deliberately trying to get that Day Today Chris Morris meme treatment.
October 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Beginning to wonder if headline writers are deliberately trying to get that Day Today Chris Morris meme treatment.
Mansfield Park is Jane Austen’s best novel. Not sure if that opinion quite counts as unhinged, but I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who agrees. I hasten to add that I love all the others to pieces. But Mansfield Park is best.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Mansfield Park is Jane Austen’s best novel. Not sure if that opinion quite counts as unhinged, but I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who agrees. I hasten to add that I love all the others to pieces. But Mansfield Park is best.
Honoured to have contributed a chapter to this excellent new book, and thrilled to learn that it blasted through its Kickstarter target in a mere six hours! My piece is on Image of the Fendahl and where it sits among Doctor Who’s diverse dabblings in folk horror.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...
THE GRAHAM WILLIAMS YEARS - The DNA of Doctor Who
Our second title in a range of beautiful large-format books focusing on the creative team behind BBC Television's DOCTOR WHO!
www.kickstarter.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Honoured to have contributed a chapter to this excellent new book, and thrilled to learn that it blasted through its Kickstarter target in a mere six hours! My piece is on Image of the Fendahl and where it sits among Doctor Who’s diverse dabblings in folk horror.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...
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I’m delighted and honoured to have contributed a chapter to this excellent new book about one of my favourite periods of Doctor Who. As I type this, the Kickstarter page went live 45 minutes ago and it’s already over halfway to hitting the target!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...
THE GRAHAM WILLIAMS YEARS - The DNA of Doctor Who
Our second title in a range of beautiful large-format books focusing on the creative team behind BBC Television's DOCTOR WHO!
www.kickstarter.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I’m delighted and honoured to have contributed a chapter to this excellent new book about one of my favourite periods of Doctor Who. As I type this, the Kickstarter page went live 45 minutes ago and it’s already over halfway to hitting the target!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...
I’m delighted and honoured to have contributed a chapter to this excellent new book about one of my favourite periods of Doctor Who. As I type this, the Kickstarter page went live 45 minutes ago and it’s already over halfway to hitting the target!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...
THE GRAHAM WILLIAMS YEARS - The DNA of Doctor Who
Our second title in a range of beautiful large-format books focusing on the creative team behind BBC Television's DOCTOR WHO!
www.kickstarter.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I’m delighted and honoured to have contributed a chapter to this excellent new book about one of my favourite periods of Doctor Who. As I type this, the Kickstarter page went live 45 minutes ago and it’s already over halfway to hitting the target!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...
John Masefield, poet laureate and author of The Box of Delights, was alive at the time of the gunfight at the OK Corral. He could have seen Carry On Cowboy and Doctor Who and the Gunfighters.
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
October 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
John Masefield, poet laureate and author of The Box of Delights, was alive at the time of the gunfight at the OK Corral. He could have seen Carry On Cowboy and Doctor Who and the Gunfighters.
In the garden today: it’s October, but the gorgeous honeyed fragrance of sweet alyssum is still filling the patio with perfume. The scent was once believed to cure mental anguish: the name ‘alyssum’ comes from the Greek, literally meaning ‘free of madness’. Would that we were.
October 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
In the garden today: it’s October, but the gorgeous honeyed fragrance of sweet alyssum is still filling the patio with perfume. The scent was once believed to cure mental anguish: the name ‘alyssum’ comes from the Greek, literally meaning ‘free of madness’. Would that we were.
In the garden today: Snapdragons basking in September’s final sunset.
September 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In the garden today: Snapdragons basking in September’s final sunset.
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Well, that was a complete and utter joy. So much so that we’re doing it all again tomorrow in Exeter.
September 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Well, that was a complete and utter joy. So much so that we’re doing it all again tomorrow in Exeter.
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I am so thrilled to be interviewing Miriam Margolyes live on stage at the Hall for Cornwall today. What a gorgeous venue! #TheLittleBookOfMiriam
September 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I am so thrilled to be interviewing Miriam Margolyes live on stage at the Hall for Cornwall today. What a gorgeous venue! #TheLittleBookOfMiriam