More guests will be added as they are confirmed.
Please remember all announced guests appear subject to work commitments.
Jun 24, 2015
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Midlands premiere convention for Doctor Who fans!
Counting down to Whooverville 7!
5 September 2015 at QUAD, Derby.
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Colin Baker
For the second successive year we are proud to be
bringing a Doctor to Whooverville – and it’s an old friend of our
group and our convention. We are absolutely delighted to be able to
announce that COLIN BAKER has agreed to return to Whooverville.
Colin, the Sixth Doctor of course, needs no introduction. If you
have yet to see him at a convention you are in for a treat. He is a
fabulous guest and a genuinely nice guy.
He was the main guest at the very first Whooverville, back in 2009
and we are really looking forward to showing him what we have done
with our little convention, as well as to asking him about Big
Finish, his part in the 50th Anniversary Celebrations, I’m A
Celebrity… and so much more. Many thanks to Colin for agreeing to
come back and see us again
Guests
Jenny T. Colgan
Jenny published her first novel in 2000 and
is one of the UK’s most popular romantic novelists, winning the
award for Romantic Novel of the Year in 2013 for Welcome to Rosie
Hopkins’ Sweetshop of Dreams. A life-long Who fan, who once won a
competition to meet Peter Davison, Jenny’s first Doctor Who novel,
Dark Horizons was published in 2012. She is also a contributor to
the recently published collection of Who novellas, originally
published as e-books, Time Trips. Many thanks to our friends at BBC
Books for helping to arrange Jenny’s appearance at
Whooverville.
Richard Marson
Richard is the author of two acclaimed
biographies of Doctor Who producers. JNT: The Life and Scandalous
Times of John Nathan Turner, published in 2013, confounded many
people’s expectations by being a serious, scholarly and above all
sympathetic account of the life of the last producer of classic
Doctor Who. He has followed this up his year, with his biography of
the series’ first producer, Drama and Delight: The Life of Verity
Lambert, which is garnering rave reviews. Both books are published
by Miwk Publishing, to whom our thanks go for facilitating
Richard’s appearance at Whooverville. Richard was for many years a
contributor to Doctor Who Magazine and was editor of Blue Peter
between 1998 and 2007. He also produced the fabulous 2012
documentary, Tales of Television Centre. We very much look forward
to meeting him.
Jeff Cummins
Since winning a Magpie art competition with a
portrait of George Best in 1969, Jeff has had a successful career
as a graphic designer and artist. In the 1970s he worked with the
legendary Hipgnosis, designers of album covers, working with
artists such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Moody Blues and Peter
Gabriel. His painting for the Paul and Linda McCartney
album ‘Wings Over America’ propelled him into the international
arena. of course he is well-known to Who fans as the designer of
the covers of a number of Target books. More information on Jeff
and his work can be found at http://www.jeffcummins.com/ Many thanks to Jeff
for contacting us, we look forward to meeting him.
Karen Louise Hollis
Karen is an old friend and a member of
our group, who is known for her two books relating her convention
experiences Un-Conventional and The Other Side of The Table. She is
the author of the forthcoming Anthony Ainley biography, The Man
Behind The Master, to be published by Fantom Films.
Michael Pickwoad
Michael is the current Production Manager on
Doctor Who, the man ultimately responsible for all art and design
matters on the series. The son of War Machines actor William
Mervyn, he has never done a convention before. Many thanks to our
friend Tristan Peatfield for making the introductions.
Dan Starkey
Dan has become the go-to-guy for Sontarans both
for televised Doctor Who and for Big Finish audios, since appearing
in the 10th Doctor Story The Sontaran Strategem/The Poison Sky. He
is probably best known as Commander Strax, a role which he first
played in the Eleventh Doctor story A Good Man Goes To War and
which he has reprised on several occasions since as part of the
Paternoster Gang.
After 3 seasons in prosthetics as Randal Moon in Wizards vs. Aliens, Dan finally got his face on-screen as Ian the elf in the Doctor Who Christmas Special Last Christmas, before covering himself in glory as part of the winning team in the Christmas 2014 series of University Challenge.
Dan is a long-standing Doctor Who fan, which will make it particularly pleasing to welcome him to Whooverville.
Terrance Dicks
Terrance Dicks is a very old friend of our
group, having twice previously visited us for Friday evening
meetings, as well as for one of the 625 Lines events at QUAD that
we co-organised.
Terrance needs no introduction, he is simply the most important writer ever to contribute to Doctor Who and the biggest influence on the show of the last 40 years. Terrance is a great convention guest, a font of fascinating stories and memories, and a genuinely nice, approachable person. If you haven’t met him yet, you are in for a treat.
David Benson
David Benson is perhaps best know to us as the
voice of Panda in the Big Finish Iris Wildthyme audio range, for
playing Orson Welles in ‘Invaders from Mars’, also for Big Finish
and (among others) Aleister Crowley in ‘The Scarifyers’.
He is also known for his hit one-man show ‘Think No Evil Of Us’, based on the life of Kenneth Williams as well as for his similar show based on Frankie Howerd and for playing Noel Cowerd in the BBC comedy show ‘Goodnight Sweetheart’.
David made his television Doctor Who debut this year as the Master of Ceremonies of the Archery Contest in ‘Robot of Sherwood’.
Matthew Waterhouse
The son of a solicitor, Matthew was a
great fan of Doctor Who in his younger days and went on to play
Adric alongside the 4th and 5th Doctors.
Matthew has recently returned to Doctor Who as Adric for Big Finish alongside Peter Davison as the 5th Doctor.