Sadly, Peterborough’s Doctor Who exhibition is due to close very soon; fortunately, Sylvester McCoy will be there to give a special talk.

McCoy, who played the Seventh Doctor regularly between Time and the Rani and The TV Movie, will be chatting to Doctor Who Magazine‘s Marcus Hearn from 10:30am, before an audience Q&A. The “Caught in Conversation” event will continue until 12:30pm, and there will also be a chance to buy signed photos.

Afterwards, there will also be a fiction writing workshop with James McDermott of the University of East Anglia, to give people tools and advice to work on their own Doctor Who fan fiction. That’s from 2pm to 4pm.

These take place at the Peterborough Museum on the exhibition’s last day, Sunday 2nd November 2025, and you can get your tickets from the official website.

The Adventures in Time & Space event has run at the museum since May, and has been a big success. In his review for the Doctor Who Companion, Jason Zerdin enthused:

“From the recent Doctor Who Magazine Horror Special, I knew to check under Sutekh’s bum. The people who made this new costume for another event had been asked for it to be as accurate as possible, and so they made a cast of the hand of the floor assistant who, briefly and unintentionally, played the Hand of Sutekh, which was visible on Sutekh’s chair when he stood up and was freed at last. The name of that floor assistant, by the way, is James Burge. A nearby button activates Sutekh’s eyes, which glow authentically green.”

If you can get across to see the exhibition before it closes, and especially to see this special chat with Sylvester who is always a delight, we encourage you to take that opportunity — heck, they’ve even got the Emperor Dalek from The Evil of the Daleks!