Further discussion, perhaps, when I’ve had time to digest tonight’s episode.

But just now, I want to remember the year of 1988-89, when I was the External Officer of the Clare College Students Association in Cambridge, and the Welfare Officer was a guy called Dan who was not as much into student politics as I was, and more into arts, and theatre, and acting, and especially directing. So much into directing, in fact, that he directed this week’s episode of Doctor Who.