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The  episode of Toby Hadoke's Who's Round included the second part of Toby Hadoke's interview with head writer and executive producer Russell T Davies.

Podcast summary
More from Who's Round, Toby Hadoke's Doctor Who 50th anniversary quest to get an anecdote about every single episode of Doctor Who to date. In this instalment, Toby continues his chat with Russell T Davies.

The cat is out of the bag - the day after The Web of Fear was released on iTunes, Toby had Russell T Davies for tea and grilled him for over six hours. This is part two of an extensive and exclusive chat with the man behind the resurrection of the series.

Nominated charity: The Terrence Higgins Trust

Topics covered

 * Shaun Dingwall's performance as Pete Tyler in Father's Day
 * Buffy's influence on Doctor Who
 * The railway station shoot in The Doctor Dances
 * The cold shoot of The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances
 * The arrival of The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances scripts
 * Thinking how much better the final produced episode looks compared to worries during shoots
 * Worrying about the silver foil pipes in The End of the World
 * Killing William Thomas' character of Cleaver in the pre-titles of Boom Town
 * Casting William Thomas as Geraint Cooper
 * Bringing Annette Badland back for Boom Town and the scheduling conflicts with Cutting It
 * The moral debate in Boom Town
 * The Ninth Doctor eating steak and chips instead of making him a gourmand or keeping him a vegetarian like in the Sixth Doctor era
 * The Doctor being a real person who is part of the story and feels tragedy, and denying claims he was deified during the Davies era
 * Killing almost every character in Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways
 * Characters dying noble deaths on Doctor Who
 * Casting Jenna Russell as the floor manager in Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways
 * Overwork and oversights on credits omissions through human error
 * Trailers for series 1 immediately after it ended
 * Placing four Cyberman episodes (Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday) into a single money-saving production block shot in the middle of the series, and getting the scripts ready
 * An early synopsis for Tooth and Claw set in Buckingham Palace
 * Writing and plotting Tooth and Claw
 * Tooth and Claw's CGI werewolf
 * The original treatment for Tooth and Claw about Queen Victoria having an insect in her eye
 * Having little time to script Tooth and Claw after the original writer's script fell through, along with Army of Ghosts and Doomsday's filming position being moved forward
 * Producer Phil Collinson adding the Koh-i-Noor to Tooth and Claw