Doctor Who writer's visit a monster hit with pupils (The Star)

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THE Daleks and Cybermen were out in two Doncaster schools as one of the BBC's Doctor Who writers toured the borough. South Yorkshire author Dan Blythe is one of the team of writers behind the Doctor Who novels series and he spent the day telling pupils about the history of the show. After a session talking to pupils at Hexthorpe Primary School, he moved on to Danum School, where pupils from several primary schools attended as part of the Doncaster Book Awards programme.

Dan, who lives in Loxley, Sheffield, has written three Doctor Who books, although the first two, written in the 1990s before the relaunch of the programme in 2005, are now available only from specialist bookshops. They were called Dimension Riders and Infinite Requiem and were about the Sylvester McCoy Doctor Who character, on the television in the late 1980s. Dan signed copies of his current Doctor Who book, Autonomy, which is about Autons. They are plastic dummies brought to life by an alien force, the Nestenes. Read more at www.thestar.co.uk