I just watched the latest Doctor Who episode, ‘Lux’. It was gloriously meta. Who needs fourth walls? And with a love note to the fandom in the middle.
The best episode RTD has done, certainly in this incarnation. IMHO, obviously.
I should note it’s Petroc Trelawny’s last day on the BBC Radio 3 Breakfast show today. I’ll miss his dulcet tones, and especially his weird pronunciation of ‘Bach’.
Radio saying SpaceX’s latest launch will be the first to orbit over the north and south poles. That’s wrong, of course: there have been plenty of circumpolar satellites. I wonder if it’s the first human-occupied one to enter that orbit; or just the first commercial one to do so.
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