In short, I have a vanishingly small part in the new run of Doctor Who
- Publication: The Daily Telegraph
- Date: 2005-03-23
- Author: Andrew Marr
- Page: 22
- Language: English
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Meanwhile, high excitement. After a career whose high points include stumbling over my words outside Downing Street, being sacked, having my picture painted by Hockney because he was amazed by the shape of my head and cavorting on national television in fishnet tights, a fixed smile and little else, I have at last reached the acme, the summit, the final glistening pimple of worldly success. In short, I have a vanishingly small part in the new run of Doctor Who.
Thanks to a small miracle of lateral thinking, I play a bat-eared political reporter. Filming this took a long time and a frightening quantity of technology, including a man with a tape measure interposing himself between a lens and my nose. But, hey, Doctor Who? I would have happily played a cactus on a windowsill or Billie Piper's missing sock.
This obsession goes back, as most do, to childhood, much of which was spent behind the reassuringly bulky family sofa when the theme music started. I don't suppose I saw very much of Jon Pertwee and friends, but I heard a lot. (Social history is full of false memory. But the suggestion that most children spent the 1960s hiding behind sofas from silver teapots in kilts is true.)
Many bad things have happened to me since. Indeed, I've done quite a lot of bad things since. But nothing was half as awful as being invited to my best friend's house across the road just after Christmas and having the door opened by... a Dalek! Other small boys might have asked themselves whether it was entirely likely that the Daleks would begin their assault on Earth in a small village outside Dundee. But I've never been entirely solid under fire. And anyway, it wasn't even a silver one. It was one of the really horrible black ones... Uughh.
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- APA 6th ed.: Marr, Andrew (2005-03-23). In short, I have a vanishingly small part in the new run of Doctor Who. The Daily Telegraph p. 22.
- MLA 7th ed.: Marr, Andrew. "In short, I have a vanishingly small part in the new run of Doctor Who." The Daily Telegraph [add city] 2005-03-23, 22. Print.
- Chicago 15th ed.: Marr, Andrew. "In short, I have a vanishingly small part in the new run of Doctor Who." The Daily Telegraph, edition, sec., 2005-03-23
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