This year's Children in Need will take place on Friday 15th November from 7:30pm.

Members of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop will be performing live at the weekend to mark Doctor Who's 50th anniversary.

Fresh from their recent appearance at Portmeirion's Festival No 6, Dick Mills, Paddy Kingsland, Peter Howell, Roger Limb, and Mark Ayres will be performing a 75-minute set at the London Electronic Arts Festival in Shoreditch on Saturday 9th November at 2pm.

The Radiophonic Workshop's most famous piece of work was undoubtedly the Doctor Who theme, realised by Delia Derbyshire from a composition by Ron Grainer, and the Workshop also created countless special sounds for the series during its classic era.

The concert, at the Shoreditch Electric Light Station in Coronet Street, will not only include music ranging from Doctor Who to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it will also feature archive video from Doctor Who and many other programmes for which the Workshop provided sound design and music. It will be a 5.1 surround sound show and will feature The Doctor Who Suite - part of which will bring Derbyshire's original 1963 theme together with Howell's 1980 reimagining of it in one 15-minute presentation.

It coincides with the start of a comprehensive reissue programme of the entire Radiophonic Workshop back catalogue. These will initially be on 180g audiophile vinyl in restored original artwork and audio remastered from original tapes by Ayres, and will be issued on the Music On Vinyl label, to be followed by digital and CD releases and a new compilation of Radiophonic material from the vaults.

BBC Radiophonic Music and BBC Radiophonic Workshop will be rereleased on Monday 25th November, with the former available to pre-order here and the latter here. BBC Radiophonic Music - originally put out in 1968 as a specialist demonstration library disc for BBC drama producers - was released commercially in 1971. BBC Radiophonic Workshop was originally released in 1975 and was a compilation of the Workshop's output to date. Both showcase the dawning of processed sound, treated sounds, and sound design.

They will be followed in the new year by the albums 4th Dimension and Through A Glass Darkly.

In addition, Kingsland, Limb, Mills, Howell, and Ayres are working with White Noise's David Vorhaus on a new album of Radiophonic material set for release next year on a major label. This will feature collaborations with a number of key figures in contemporary electronica, all of whom have been influenced by the Workshop down the years.

The Workshop will also be putting out very limited issues of rare and unreleased tracks from the archives, including some rare Doctor Who moments and a remixed and reimagined version of the original Doctor Who theme realised by Derbyshire. This has been produced from her original tapes and will be the first stereo version of the track to appear.

A 2,500-word Workshop retrospective by Joe Muggs is due to be published in The Observer on Sunday 24th November.

The Radiophonic Workshop was formed in 1958 and was based in BBC studios at Maida Vale in London. It closed in 1998 but during its lifetime had an inestimable influence on musicians and sound engineers, and was described by electronic dance music publication Mixmag in 1997 as "the unsung heroes of electronica". On 17th May 2009, Radiophonic Workshop musicians played live for the first time when they gave a concert at the Camden Roundhouse as part of the Short Circuit festival.

The BBC have now confirmed the date and time of the 50th Anniversary drama An Adventure in Space and Time. The announcement was made via the BBC Two Twitter feed this afternoon:
The ninety-minute drama starring David Bradley joins other programming that has already been confirmed for the anniversary:

• The Science of Doctor Who: BBC Two, 14 Nov, 9:00-10:00pm
• Monsters and Villains Weekend: BBC Three, 15 Nov, 7:00pm (across weekend)
• Doctor Who at 50 - Doctor Who and the Daleks: BBC Radio 4 Extra, 16 Nov, 6:00-6:45pm
• Doctor Who at 50 - Protect and Survive: BBC Radio 4 Extra, 17 Nov, 6:00-6:45pm
• Doctor Who at 50 - Fanfare for the Common Men: BBC Radio 4 Extra, 18 Nov, 6:00-6:45pm
• Doctor Who at 50 - Thousand Tiny Wings: BBC Radio 4 Extra, 19 Nov, 6:00-6:45pm
• Doctor Who at 50 - Farewell, Great Macedon: BBC Radio 4 Extra, 20 Nov, 6:00-6:45pm
• Blue Peter: CBBC, 21 Nov, 5:30-6:00pm, and 23 Nov (time tbc)
• Doctor Who at 50 - Human Resources: BBC Radio 4 Extra, 19 Nov, 6:00-6:45pm
• An Adventure in Space and Time: BBC Two, 21 Nov, 9:00-10:30pm
• Who is the Doctor?: BBC Radio 2, 21 Nov 10:00-11:30pm
• The Blagger's Guide to Doctor Who, BBC Radio 2, 21 Nov, 11:30pm-midnight
• Doctor Who at 50: Dalek Invasion of Earth: BBC Radio 4 Extra, 22 Nov, 6:00-6:45pm
• The Graham Norton Show: BBC Radio 2, 23 Nov, 10:00am-1:00pm
• The Day of the Doctor: BBC One, 23 Nov, time tbc

Also expected are The Story of Trock on BBC Radio 1 (unconfirmed for 18 Nov at 9:00pm), The Culture Show special Me, You And Doctor Who on BBC Two (unconfirmed for 22 Nov at 9:30pm), 12 Again: Doctor Who Special on CBBC (in the week leading up to the Anniversary), Who Made Who? on BBC Radio 4 Extra, and The Ultimate Guide on BBC Three. Times for these programmes are expected to be confirmed shortly.

Other programmes include Colin Baker and Peter Purves in a Celebrity Antiques Road Trip this coming Friday (8th Nov) on BBC Two at 7:00pm, and Steven Moffat becoming a castaway on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 at 11:15am on 17th November. Plus, digital channel Watch continues its own celebration of Doctor Who with episode repeats and The Doctors Revisited throughout the month.

Note: at the time of writing, the rights issues relating to the original announcement of An Unearthly Child being broadcast on BBC Four have as yet been unresolved.

See This Week In Doctor Who for further schedules and updates.


UPDATE - 7.05pm GMT, 7th November: The Radio 1 documentary The Story of Trock has now been scheduled to air on Monday 25th November at 9pm.

BBC Worldwide Australia & New Zealand have announced that a Doctor Who pop-up shop is coming to Richmond in Melbourne, with doors opening next Saturday 9th November.

Following the overwhelming popularity of the Sydney and Brisbane Doctor Who pop-up shops, where fans queued for more than two hours to get into the store, this special one-off Melbourne pop-up will feature some exclusive merchandise not currently available in Australian stores. On offer is the Who Home range boasting a selection of homewares, such as teapots and mugs, plus notebooks, tea towels and more.

A limited number of the special edition Tenth Doctor in tuxedo Titan figurines will also be on sale, along with the coveted silver collectible coin from the New Zealand Mint. The highly- anticipated Tenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver remote control will also be available in store, as will the popular range of toys, gifts, DVDs and books that Australian fans love. And as a special treat, fans can get up close to a TARDIS and a K-9.

The event takes place at Shop 2, 177 Bridge Road, Richmond, with doors opening at 9am. Fans are invited to dress up as their favourite Doctor Who character with a small gift given to the first 20 fans to arrive in costume. There will also be special celebrations in store on the weekend of the 50th anniversary - details on the official Doctor Who website.

Rachael Hammond, BBC Worldwide ANZ's Retail Manager, said: Also following sold-out shows in 2012, the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular will return to Melbourne on 31st January and 1st February 2014 at the Plenary Hall, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will perform Murray Gold's music from the series, accompanied by a big screen featuring specially-edited sequences of Matt Smith's performance as the Eleventh Doctor. A host of monsters, including the Silence, the Daleks and the Cybermen, will add to the electric atmosphere.

Tickets are now available.

Audiobook publisher AudioGO, the company licensed by the BBC to produce Doctor Who audiobooks, has been placed into administration, suspending all operations.

AudioGO was formed in July 2010, when a team of private investors bought out the Bath-based BBC Audiobooks, with BBC Worldwide still owning a minority stake. The company produced a number of audio products based on BBC programmes, including a large number of Doctor Who-related discs, such as readings of classic novelisations and productions such as the Destiny of the Doctor series. (This series continues to be available from co-producers Big Finish.)

The company suspended operations on 22nd October, following the discovery of financial irregularities and the suspension of the managing director and departure of the financial director. It was hoped that a buyer for the business could be found which would enable the company to continue trading. However, on Friday AudioGO was formally put into administration, with 57 employees losing their jobs.

Mark Shaw, of the administrators BDO, said
Before administration, the company sold its US arm Blackstone Audio back to Blackstone's founder, which operates the US Downpour.com download site. AudioGo had acquired Blackstone 10 months ago.

A host of guests for the BBC's Doctor Who Celebration was announced today - but fans going to the event on the anniversary itself face missing the special episode.

Fifth Doctor Peter Davison will be at the convention at ExCeL in London for all its three days - 22nd to 24th November inclusive - and joining him there on the actual anniversary day, Saturday 23rd November, will be William Russell and Carole Ann Ford who, as Ian Chesterton and Susan Foreman, were companions to the First Doctor and were in the first episode of Doctor Who when it was originally broadcast exactly 50 years earlier. In addition, Waris Hussein, who directed the first story, will also be there on the Saturday.

Arrangements have been made for a free 2D showing of the simulcast of The Day of the Doctor that day, but not everybody going to the event on 23rd November will be able to get into it.

BBC Worldwide said: Saturday attendees who miss out on tickets to the screening and who want to see the episode as it is broadcast will therefore have to make alternative plans to watch it as it goes out - if they can.

Also appearing on all three days will be special sounds wizard Dick Mills and visual effects supremos Mike Tucker and Mat Irvine. The rest of the additional guest line-up and their appearance days is as follows:
As previously reported, current Doctor Matt Smith, Sixth Doctor Colin Baker, and Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy will also be there on all three days, while Fourth Doctor Tom Baker will be there on just the Saturday.

Fans in Denmark will be able to see the 50th Anniversary special, The Day of the Doctor, at one of three special showings at the CinemaxX cinema chain.

The episode will be shown on the evening of 23rd November at branches in Odense, Aarhus and the capital Copenhagen.

The showings were announced yesterday following mail and internet campaigns from fans in the country. National Danish TV channel DR3 has just completed screenings of seasons 5 to 7 of the new series.

November sees a packed line-up of Doctor Who on the UKTV Australia and UKTV New Zealand channels.

Eleven months of Doctor Who anniversary screenings on UKTV conclude with stories featuring Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor, as well as two full days of episodes and specials scheduled for the weekend of the 50th anniversary.

The Eleventh Doctor episodes are as follows:

3 November:
The Eleventh Hour - AU: 3:20pm (repeated 11:50pm); NZ: 5:20pm (repeated 4 Nov, 4:50am)

10 November:
The Time Of Angels & Flesh And Stone - AU: 2:35pm (repeated 11:50pm); NZ: 4:50pm (repeated 11 Nov, 4:25am)

17 November:
Amy's Choice - AU: 2:25pm; NZ: 4:35pm (repeated 18 Nov, 3:50am)
Asylum of the Daleks - AU: 3:25pm; NZ: 5:30pm (repeated 18 Nov, 4:40am)

Following these screenings, a Doctor Who marathon screening of episodes and specials running for more than 24 hours in total will be played out over the weekend of the anniversary.

One story from each Doctor will be screened, arranged in chronological order, each preceded by the corresponding instalment of Doctor Who Revisited. The episodes of Revisited featuring the three most recent Doctors have never before been screened in Australia or New Zealand.

23 November:
Doctor Who Revisited: The First Doctor - AU: 5:30am; NZ: 6:35am
An Unearthly Child - AU: 5:55am; NZ 7:00am
Doctor Who Revisited: The Second Doctor - AU: 8:00am; NZ: 8:40am
The Tomb of the Cybermen - AU: 8:30am; NZ 9:10am
Doctor Who Revisited: The Third Doctor - AU: 10:35am; NZ: 10:50am
The Three Doctors - AU: 11:05am; NZ 11:20am
Doctor Who Revisited: The Fourth Doctor - AU: 1:10pm; NZ: 1:05pm
The Hand of Fear - AU: 1:40pm; NZ 1:35pm
Doctor Who Revisited: The Fifth Doctor - AU: 3:45pm; NZ: 3:20pm
The Caves of Androzani - AU: 4:15pm; NZ 3:50pm

24 November:
Doctor Who Revisited: The Sixth Doctor - AU: 6:10am; NZ: 7:20am
Revelation of the Daleks - AU: 6:40am; NZ: 7:50am
Doctor Who Revisited: The Seventh Doctor - AU: 8:45am; NZ: 9:25am
The Curse of Fenric - AU: 9:15am; NZ: 9:55am
Doctor Who Revisited: The Eighth Doctor - AU: 11:20am; NZ: 11:35am
Doctor Who: The Movie - AU: 11:50am; NZ: 12:00pm
Doctor Who Revisited: The Ninth Doctor - AU: 1:35pm; NZ: 1:30pm
Rose - AU: 2:05pm; NZ: 1:55pm
Doctor Who Revisited: The Tenth Doctor - AU: 3:10pm; NZ: 2:45pm
Blink - AU: 3:40pm; NZ: 3:10pm
Doctor Who Revisited: The Eleventh Doctor - AU: 4:45pm; NZ: 4:00pm
Asylum of the Daleks - AU: 5:15pm; NZ: 4:30pm

In addition, Doctor Who 50th: Vivid Sydney will screen on 23 November (AU: 6:15pm, repeated 24 Nov 6:15pm; NZ: 5:40pm). This ten-minute programme features the Doctor Who musical projections that illuminated Sydney's Customs House for the anniversary.

UKTV is also screening four Doctor Who America Specials on Sundays, including The Timey Wimey Stuff of Doctor Who (AU: 10 Nov, 4:30pm); The Science of Doctor Who (NZ: 17 Nov, 6:30pm); The Destinations of Doctor Who (AU: 17 Nov, 4:25pm) and The Women of Doctor Who (NZ: 24 Nov, 6:30pm).

Further episodes scheduled to screen on UKTV in Australia during November include stories from Series One to Three on weekdays at 9:20am, and the first half of Series Seven on Sunday evenings at 5:30pm .

Meanwhile, New Zealand also has screenings of episodes from the first half of Series Seven, on Sunday evenings at 6:30pm, with all five episodes repeated twice daily weekdays from 18-22 November.

Upcoming broadcasts can be found on UKTV's Doctor Who guide for Australia and New Zealand.

A video of the main guest panel for the BFI's Eighth Doctor celebratory event was uploaded for viewing this morning.

Held on Saturday 5th October as part of the organisation's Doctor Who At 50 season, it saw Paul McGann, Daphne Ashbrook, and Geoffrey Sax in discussion with season co-curator Justin Johnson, following a big-screen showing of McGann's sole TV outing as the Doctor (up to now).


Earlier, Andrew Cartmel, Nicholas Briggs, Gary Russell, and Jason Haigh-Ellery formed a panel to talk about the years between the McGann movie of 1996 and the show's return in 2005.

Comedian Toby Hadoke has added a number of dates to his tour of My Stepson Stole My Sonic Screwdriver.

The actor and writer, who is a moderator on classic Doctor Who DVD releases and is a contributor to Doctor Who Magazine, will be performing the show as follows:

• Friday 1st November, 7.45pm - Riverfront Theatre, Newport, Gwent
• Thursday 21st November, 7.30pm - Lincoln Drill Hall, Lincoln
• Thursday 5th December, 8pm - Rondo Theatre, Bath
• Thursday 16th January, 7.30pm - Oldham Coliseum Theatre, Oldham (Two-for-one ticket offer at the Coliseum until 23rd November 2013)

Stepson is a follow-up to Hadoke's acclaimed one-man show Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf.