Which is lovely.Īnd so I went up to Cardiff, and I started going up to Cardiff on a very regular basis, quite a few days a week when I wasn’t doing Big Finish stuff I was saying to Jason, “Look, I’ve got to go to Cardiff for three or four days.” I worked my schedule around it and like I say, by that point Alan was around so it made life a little bit easier and I could nip up to Cardiff and interview people – go round the country actually interviewing people. Actually I think it was Gillane at Confidential had put my name forward first of all, and Russell went, “Oh God yes, that’s brilliant,” because I’d written the Regeneration book and everyone loved that. Gary Russell: I was asked to go and do the Doctor Who The Inside Story book for Russell he wanted a writer he knew so he put me forward for it. Starburst: How did you get the job in Cardiff? Just prior to Gary’s departure for Australia, where he is currently producing a children’s sci-fi series, Starburst Magazine was lucky enough to sit down with him and have a conversation encompassing his entire Doctor Who career to date.

Gary Russell is the very definition of the Doctor Who renaissance man, having gone from editing the official magazine to script editing Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, via writing New Adventures novels and producing at Big Finish, along with a host of other things.

Doctor Who by Gary Russell