2.4 Sylvester McCoy- "The Echo of the Seventh Man"
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Sophie Aldred interviews Sylvester McCoy about his extraordinary career and the mysteries aboard the Nosferatu 2.5.
There are some mysteries that announce themselves with explosions. Others arrive much more quietly. The Nosferatu 2.5 continues its impossible voyage, where the familiar laws of time and space have become little more than polite suggestions. Echoes now arrive before the sounds that create them, corridors remember places they have never been, and Hobbes' increasingly concerned scans suggest that the boundaries between memory, story and reality are becoming dangerously indistinct. Somewhere, something is rearranging the order in which events happen. Returning to the Sofa of Infinite Understanding is the incomparable Sylvester McCoy . When he first stepped aboard the Nosferatu 2.5 there simply wasn't enough time to explore a career as extraordinary as his. This time, however, there is a rather unexpected complication: Sylvester has absolutely no recollection of ever having visited before. As Sophie and Hobbes grapple with the implications, conversation drifts effortlessly through a lifetime of remarkable adventures. From his gloriously anarchic early years with the legendary Ken Campbell, where theatrical convention was joyfully abandoned in favour of organised chaos, to memories of…
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