Meet the authors: Iain Hepburn

My earliest Doctor Who memory was something that, for many years, I never even realised was Doctor Who - specifically, it was the scene from The Five Doctors of the faux Hartnell and Susan wandering the corridors being pursued by a Dalek.

After that, it took me several years to finally get into the show.  My best pal at primary school was ultimately responsible - Remembrance of the Daleks, episode 1.  With my usual sense of timing, the show was dead a year later...

And since then it's always been at the periphery of my life.  I spent a glorious nine months at SFX before literally killing their website.  I wrote a BBV audio when I was between jobs - it's remarkable how unemployment focuses the mind and gets you to finish a script you've put off for so long.  And I'm in Death Comes To Time.  Seriously.  The bit where Sophie bursts into the tavern of whimpering villagers in episode five?  I'm a whimpering villager.  Dan offered me a larger part, but the Glasgow accent might have sounded a bit odd as an alien guard...

And having been a long time reader of Tachyon TV, and the Behind the Sofa blog, it's genuinely an honour and privilege to take up squatting rights and showcase my inept grasp of the English language.  Being Scots and a journalist, writing decent English isn't something that's had to figure large in my life before now, allegedly...

Outside of the Doctor Who bubble I enjoy watching real and fake fighting, a rubbish football team, Tina Fey in anything and two fat Glaswegians reviewing video games on the internet.  I also host a Scottish football podcast and have my own rambling blog on non-Dr Who matters.