EXTERMINATE/REGENERATE

Nick Setchfield

▸ RELEASED 10 APRIL 464 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook ▸ Author John Higgs ▸ Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson John Higgs has form when it comes to Great British institutions: 2022’s Love And Let Die mapped the intertwined destinies of James Bond and the Beatles. Now he turns a cultural critic’s eye to Doctor Who, another world-beating example of Blighty’s soft power birthed in the early ’60s. Here’s the entire 60-plus years of on-screen fiction and backroom drama, Time Lord heroics and messy human behaviour by those who actually made the show. From Dalekmania to the second coming of RTD, it’s an astute, solidly researched overview, albeit one with a gossipy side that occasionally verges on tabloid prurience. Hardcore fans may fear it’s an overfamiliar tale – this is the most documented…

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