Neil Cross (writer of The Rings of Akhaten and Hide, 2013)
It could be watching Planet of the Spiders at my Nan’s house, wrapped up in her fake fur coat, or my sister and me screaming in joyous terror as the Cyber Army awakens in Earthshock, or just lying in bed, half-excited and half-terrified to imagine the fearsome grinding of the Tardis’s time rotor outside my bedroom window. I didn’t want to watch the revival, but I caught Dalek on TV in 2005, and showed it to my sons. We sat together and watched it, the four of us huddled on one sofa in case it got too scary. If I had a time machine, that’s where I’d go.
