GUESTS

Guest attendance is contingent upon professional engagements.

Barnaby Edwards

Best known to Doctor Who fans as the principal Dalek operator for the current television show, Barnaby Edwards works extensively in theatre, film, television and radio.  This year he wrote the popular Fifth Doctor adventure, The Bride of Peladon, and 2009 will see the release of his Eighth Doctor story The Beast of Orlok, starring Miriam Margolyes.

Outside the realm of Doctor Who, Barnaby starred as Banquo in Macbeth in the West End, played the captain of the darts team in EastEnders, and appeared in Alfonso Cuaron's dystopian blockbuster Children Of Men. Last Christmas he wrote and directed an acclaimed four-part adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera for BBC7.

Una McCormack

Writer and scholar Una McCormack is well-known in Doctor Who, Blake's 7, and Deep Space Nine fandoms. In addition to her teaching duties at Cambridge, Una has written tie-in novels for Deep Space Nine and, most recently, her short story 'The Slave War,' has been published as part of the Big Finish Short Trips anthology The Quality of Leadership.

Rob Shearman

Hugo-nominated writer Rob Shearman, winner of a Bronze Sony for his BBC7 series 'Chain Gang,' is best known to Whoniverse fandom as the writer of the brilliant episode 'Dalek.' Rob has also written several Big Finish audios, including 'Holy Terror,' described by one Russell T Davies in Big Finish: The Inside Story as 'some of the finest drama ever written for any genre, in any medium, anywhere,' and 'Jubliee,' which is the origin of Jubilee pizza seen in Torchwood.