Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

Well this is the moment all us have been waiting for, some thought it was the SDG OWG final text, others the World Cup, still others the Guardians of the Galaxy film (which by the way is good and Karen Gillian was amazing!!) no it is the first outing of Peter Capaldi as Dr Who. Tickets sold by fandango. It is being screened at 1600 cinemas around the world. We understand it will be a darker doctor and also an older doctor so the romance side will probably not be there unless they bring River Song back. The relaunch of Doctor Who with  Christopher Eccleston  in 2005 as the Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose was perfect.  I always will wish he would have done a second series but it was not to be. David Tennant took over and what an amazing Doctor he turned out to be and what a perfect love story with Rose.  It took a while for us to love Matt Smith but his energy and his dedication to the role he was the Doctor won us over. We can forgive the last epis...

For all those Dr Who fans who have been patiently waiting for the first episode of the new Dr Who with Peter Capaldi playing Dr Who the wait is nearly over. The BBC have announced that the first episode of the new Dr Who will screen in August. We understand that there will be a new companion to join the Dr and Clara another teacher from her school Coal Hill - Danny Pink (Samuel Anderson). For those less award of Who history Coal Hill School was where the first Dr picked his first companions from in 1963 - Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright. I  am sure the link with the school will become clearer in the next series. There is  a great fan trailer just put out which is definitely worth watching. Infact Dr Who should consider signing the director to do an episode. Actor Nabil Shaban, an old friend of mine, is to reprise his role as the popular Doctor Who alien Sil in a brand-new adventure of the science-fiction drama,  this will be a  an audio adventure from ...

Could I be the new Dr. Who? ...i wish it were so So it’s the 50th anniversary of Dr. Who and we are to have a new Doctor. It’s definitely been an interesting ride with Matt as the Doctor. I feel he was just getting into his stride and then he’ll be gone. Dr. Who has been part of my life since a child. Like many British citizens I scrambled behind the sofa as the first Doctor William Hartnell took up against the Daleks or the Cybermen as they took over London or corned the Doctor on a far off world. What couldn’t be cool? To be a time lord, able to travel in TIME and SPACE! As a child growing up in the 1960s …when we had just started our baby steps to explore space for the first time, this all seemed so possible, AND in a blue Police Box, which was MUCH bigger on the inside than the outside. At the time my father was working on the British (European) rocket project Blue Streak originally conceived as a British medium range ballistic missile (M...