“That will be nice. Like the lovers in that Stroheim film, we’ll go and sit on the sewer.”

(Gaudy Night fans may be even worse than Doctor Who fans, only there are far fewer of us, so the world doesn't know that yet?)

Four was my first Doctor, bar the single episode of The Time Monster I walked in on my dad watching when I was … two or three? (Which much later I worked out must have been episode 3, because, well, Doctor Who fans.)