Two More Additions to Our Guest List

We announced two more guests this week - musician and composer Mark Ayres and Professor of Mathematics and author Stacey Smith?

Among other accomplishments, Mark wrote incidental music for Doctor Who in the 1980s during Sylvester McCoy’s tenure, for stories "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy", "Ghost Light" and "The Curse of Fenric". More recently he wrote the music for, sound-designed, and mixed the reconstructed 'lost' Tom Baker adventure, “Shada”, and a celebratory feature-length version of the original 1963 “Daleks” serial transmitted on BBC4 on 23rd November 2023, Doctor Who’s 60th birthday, and is currently working on the follow up for 2024.

Stacy Smith? She is a professor of disease modelling at the University of Ottawa in Canada. Using mathematics, she studies infectious diseases such as HIV, malaria, human papillomavirus, COVID-19, influenza, neglected tropical diseases... and zombies. She’s published over 100 academic articles; is a winner of a Guinness World Record for her work on modelling a zombie invasion.

Outside of her day job, she has more than 20 books to her name, including Doctor Who-specific titles Bookwyrm (ATB Publishing), Who is the Doctor, Who’s 50 and The Doctors Are In (ECW Press), Look at the Size of That Thing! (Pencil Tip Publishing), as well as a Black Archive on Doctor Who and the Silurians (Obverse Books), guides to the wonderful world of Doctor Who. She's also the editor extraordinaire of the Outside In series of pop-culture reviews with a twist (ATB Publishing), covering Doctor Who, Star Trek, Buffy, Angel, Firefly and The X-Files. Oh, and she’s the world’s leading expert on the transmission of Bieber Fever, but let’s not worry about that one.

Visit our Guests Page to see our current list. More TBA next week!