Doctor Who - Audio Details

There's one place in creation where the truth really can be found in the bottom of a glass: Bianca's, a very special and very exclusive little club.

The Doctor, careworn and seeking quiet distraction, gains admission. But his rest and relaxation is soon shattered by the wobbly arrival of louche trans-temporal adventuress Iris Wildthyme. She claims she's on a secret mission of vital importance, the success of which hinges on her getting paralytic. When she's drunk, she can hear the whispering voices in her head!

The Doctor soon learns that Bianca's airs and graces cover not just one malevolent power lurking in the shadows, but several. And a wriggling, writhing presence has designs on the clientele just as Bianca herself has designs on the Doctor. At last, after so many centuries, the weary Time Lord is dragged by the heels into that darkest of undiscovered countries - love.

WE HAD WANTED to write something together for a long time, but we both decided that we had to wait for a project to come along that had real integrity.  A project that had something to say about the condition of man and the nature of the universe, that would transcend its genre roots and its limitations of form to become timeless and profound.

Then we though, 'Stuff that', and started making up all this stuff about tequila worms who wanted to take over the multiverse, who operate from a 1930s cabaret and get everone dead drunk.

We passed the baton of writing back and forth, taking the story foreward a little at a time, each waiting to see what the other would come up with before pressing on.  And the beautiful cast did much the same, listening to each other, laughing with each other; it was a bit like being down the pub with your mates, complete with a ramshackle singalong when the script demanded it.  And why not?  It's 40 years since all this madness started - and The Wormery is a boozy celebration...

Paul Magrs & Steve Cole, April 2003