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Sue W. sent me some information from the Brand Republic website which talks about Richard’s new involvement with the Oxfam organisation. It reads:

“Oxfam has hired Richard E Grant to star in a cinema ad for its ‘Make Trade Fair’ campaign. The ad, created and directed by Paul Weiland, whose credits include Mr Bean and Blackadder, focuses on the fact that African dairy farmers’ livelihoods are ruined by the EU producing too much milk, which Oxfam claims it ‘dumps’ on Africa.

Richard E Grant, the star of cult movie ‘Withnail and I’, is to appear in the hard-hitting Fair Trade cinema ad, which highlights the severe implications that irresponsible actions of western countries are having on poverty-stricken Africa.”

Sue also sent me an extended article from Ananova.com which you can read here.

Denise has sent me an article on Doctor Who that she found on the Guardian Unlimited website. It gives a run-down on Doctor Who in general (to celebrate 40 years of everyone’s favourite time traveller) and the re-emergence of the series in the form of downloadable webcasts.

By now most of you would have read – either here at the Temple or elsewhere – that REG is supplying the voice of The Ninth Doctor in the upcoming animated webcast “The Scream of the Shalka”. It’s not the first time that Richard has been The Doctor, having played the “Lick the mirror gorgeous” Doctor in the Comic Relief version of Doctor Who from a few years back.

The Guardian Unlimited article also includes some words from REG himself towards the end. You can read that here.

More on “Restoration” (albeit late) from the BBC website. This article is from last month and, as such, it’s still very early days as far as airing and voting is concerned. Obviously REG won his “spot” for the Victorian Baths in this episode, which then went on to win the overall series. You can read the article here. and thanks go to Susan W, Denise and Joan for alerting me to it.

It should be noted that there were some very fine old buildings represented in the series, and many of these still need to be saved wherever possible. So check the others out and, if you’re feeling particularly generous, you can still make donations to help save them from destruction and demolition. To check them out just go to the BBC Restoration Website and click the links.

And finally Desy reports that REG has been voted as having the second best (ie. second most beautiful) eyes in Britain, according to the James Snail radio show last month. Prince William was first.

Doctor Who Magazine – Issue No. 334, 17th September, 2003

BBCi Webcast: More news on Richard E Grant’s debut adventure

Production on the new BBCi Doctor Who webcast, The Scream Of The Shalka, is continuing apace, with a view for a November launch.

With the recording of the audio section now completed, work has begun on the animation.

Unlike BBCi’s previous Doctor Who ventures such as Shada and Death Comes To Time, The Scream Of The Shalka will be fully animated by award-winning company Cosgrove Hall, renowned for its cartoon series such as Danger Mouse and Count Duckula.

The company previously worked on the non-Who BBCi webcast The Ghosts Of Albion, and a similar Flash animation style is expected.

A DVD release for the story is confidently expected following transmission.

Full cast details for the story are now available. Joining Richard E Grant as the Doctor, Sophie Okonedo as new companion Alison, and Craig Kelly as Joe, are Diana Quick as Prime, the leader of the Shalka; Jim Norton as the Doctor’s military liason Major Thomas Kennett; Anna Calder Marshall as Mathilda; Connor Molony as Sergeant Greaves; Andrew Dunn as Max; Ben Morrison and David Tennant as the Caretakers; and recent Doctor Who: Unbound star Derek Jacobi in a cameo appearance as the Doctor’s nemisis, The Master!

Other than the Doctor and the TARDIS, there are said to be very few continuity references in the story, which is set in 2003, in a Lancashire town under siege by mysterious forces.

Meanwhile, writer Paul Cornell has finished the novelisation which, at around 50,000 words, is longer than a Target book, but smaller than a regular BBC novel.

Cornell says that it “Adds loads of detail to the story, with lots of new lines and scenes, and will hopefully both give Who book fans the depth they demand, but be accessible to new readers, re-introducing, as it does, the key concepts.”

The book will also have a lengthy “Making of” essay, with excerpts from the original plot and an insight into the production process, supported by quotes from the production team.

DWM was, of course, present at the recording of the story and we’ll be running an in-depth feature including interviews with the main cast and production personnel, plus a look at the animation process. The article is currently scheduled for DWM 336.

To see a scanned copy of this actual article, click here.

To read the article which appeared in DWM 336, click here.