Starter for Eleven

Mark Gatiss appeared on Midweek (BBC Radio Four, 22 November) to publicise his new Lucifer Box novel The Devil in Amber. During the interview, he also spoke about the League of Gentlemen, his role in the film Starter for Ten (as Bamber Gascoigne), which is currently on cinema release, playing Johnnie Craddock in BBC Four’s recent Fear of Fanny, his forthcoming part in the new BBC adaptation of The Wind in the Willows (he plays Ratty) and how he’ll be appearing in the Series 3 of Doctor Who, commenting that they’d finally given in to his badgering! During the programme, the presenter, Libby Purves, said to Gatiss that she understood his ambition was to play the Doctor, to which Gatiss replied, “I can’t possibly comment.”