A Doctor Who superfan who cosplays his favourite Doctors in homemade outfits and created his very own reincarnation of the Time Lord on YouTube has landed his dream job creating audio books for the classic series. Hooked on Doctor Who from the age of 10, Dominic G. Martin, 27, first started dressing up as the Doctor when his mum Beverley Greenwood-Martin knitted him his very own Tom Baker inspired multi-coloured scarf when he was 11.
In the years since, he has collected all the shirts, coats and scarves he needs to imitate his favourite TV Time Lords – as well as putting his own twist on the character, which he calls The Purple Doctor and comes complete with a sonic screwdriver, which he created for a fan-fiction mini-series on YouTube. But it was when Dominic started his own Doctor Who anthology podcast that he was offered the chance to become a trainee audio producer with Big Finish Productions, working on the classic BBC audio drama series.
Dominic, who still lives in his family home in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, said: “Doctor Who changed my life and unbelievably, is now part of my every day. There is something so magical about the show that has been shared through the generations. I may never get to be the real Doctor Who, but becoming my own version of the Doctor has, and is, one of the greatest experiences of my life.”
