WIDWWA News

Competition Winner!

In the final issue of The WIDWWA Newsletter, we announced a competition for a WIDWWA fan to write an episode of Series 4 of Doctor Who: Adventures. I can reveal that the lucky fan was Jesper Hansson with his submission "Kyle's Schooldays".

Overall there were 12 submissions from a number of fans, but Jesper's was by far the best.

Speaking about winning the competition, Jesper told me: "Thank you so much for picking me. I only discovered the series about a year ago but I have become a big fan ever since. I hope you all enjoy my story!"

As Jesper didn't specify a specific writer for the episode, I chose Tim Foley to undertake the (in-universe) task.

Matt Moir Interview

An extensive interview with former WIDWWA co-writer, Matt Moir, (who worked on the series from 2017 to 19) will be published over the next two issues of The WIDWWA Magazine, in March and April's issues.

The interview took place back in October 2022 when WIDWWA Creator and Head Writer, Benjamin Windibank, met up with Matt Moir at the British Film Institute's screening of The Time Meddler for the release of Doctor Who: The CollectionSeason 2.

The interview lasted over 90 minutes and covered a diverse range of topics from when Moir worked on the series. The interview is extremely candid and also covers the details over Moir's departure from the series in 2019 and 2020, which fans have wondered about for years.

WIDWWA Podcast

Most WIDWWA fans will be aware of this, since it was uploaded to the DDWF YouTube Channel, but we've launched a WIDWWA Podcast. Well, more accurately it's "What if Doctor Who Wasn't Axed? - The Magazine: The Podcast" but that's a bit of a mouthful.

In simple terms, it's an audio version of this very magazine, using AI generated voices to bring these written features to life.

The reason for this is because I received an email from a woman called Sarah who explained that her blind son, Thomas, had been unable to enjoy WIDWWA since it stopped being a video series, in late 2020, and was wondering if an audio version could be a possibility. While she was initially told "no" due to the fact that it just wasn't feasible, with the time and resources it would take, the advances in AI speech synthesis technology has now made it possible, and that is why the Podcast is now available.

You can listen to the podcast on the DDWF YouTube channel as well as any other service that you get your podcasts on, which includes Spotify and Amazon Music.

Each episode will come out shortly after the magazine.