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Out Now: Doctor Who Magazine #591 Celebrates Pride Month

To celebrate Pride Month, Doctor Who Magazine #591 catches up with showrunner, Russell T Davies, who talks about the casting of Yasmin Finney as Rose.

DWM also celebrates the most significant LGBTQ+ characters from the show’s history.

Doctor Who Magazine #591 is further includes:

  • Professor XXX – in her first major interview with DWM for many years, Alex Kingston remembers her time as River Song, the Doctor’s wife.
  • Express Delivery – award-winning writer Jamie Mathieson looks back on his episodes: Mummy on the Orient Express, Flatline, The Girl Who Died, and Oxygen.
  • Letter from the Showrunner – Russell T Davies discusses the titles for the Fourteenth Doctor Specials. 
  • The DWM 60th Anniversary Poll – the analysis of the results continues, with this issue looking at the rankings of the Fifth and Sixth Doctor’s adventures.
  • Liberation of the Daleks Part Eight – the adventures of the Fourteenth Doctor continue in the epic comic-strip adventure written by Alan Barnes and illustrated by Lee Sullivan.
  • Memory Worm – a new series of articles begins, as actor Dan Starkey puts his knowledge of his Doctor Who roles to the test.
  • Production Diary – script editor Scott Handcock files his latest report, direct from Doctor Who’s HQ.
  • Location, Location, Vocation – Alex Moore reveals what it’s like to work as an assistant location manager on the new series of Doctor Who.
  • Gallifrey Guardian – all the latest official news, including cast announcements.
  • 60 Objects, 60 Years – the latest instalment of the series that tells the story of one object from every year of Doctor Who’s history.
  • The Fact of Fiction explores the Second Doctor’s encounter with the Cybermen aboard The Wheel in Space.
  • Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.

PLUS: Previews, reviews, prize-winning competitions, Time and Space Visualiser, and more.

Doctor Who Magazine #591 is out now, priced £7.99 (in the UK).

Philip Bates

Editor and co-founder of the Doctor Who Companion. When he’s not watching television, reading books ‘n’ Marvel comics, listening to The Killers, and obsessing over script ideas, Philip Bates pretends to be a freelance writer. He enjoys collecting everything. Writer of The Black Archive: The Pandorica Opens/ The Big Bang, The Silver Archive: The Stone Tape, and 100 Objects of Doctor Who.

Out Now: Doctor Who Magazine #591 Celebrates Pride Month

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