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Doctor Who @ 60: A Musical Celebration announced by BBC Radio 2

Doctor Who @ 60: A Musical Celebration announced by BBC Radio 2

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An epic concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 2 this autumn to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who.

The event joins a packed line-up of festivities, which include Russell T Davies’s trilogy of special episodes – leading into the much-anticipated season 14 – and a new Big Finish storyline titled Once and Future.

Doctor Who @ 60: A Musical Celebration will take place at BBC Hoddinott Hall in the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, where the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Singers will perform iconic tracks from the show.

Work by composers including Murray Gold, Segun Akinola, Dudley Simpson and Paddy Kingsland will be featured, along with the unforgettable theme music dreamt up by Delia Derbyshire and Ron Grainer.

Alastair King will be on-hand to conduct the singers, while Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies and returning composer Gold are also expected to be in attendance.

More news will be announced in due course, ahead of the concert being held and broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in the autumn.

News that Gold is back on Doctor Who was certainly music to the ears of many fans, after his legendary work during Davies’s first run on the show included dramatic themes for The Doctor, three companions and several formidable foes.

It will be a thrill to see what he can come up with for the new era of the show, which sees Sex Education’s Ncuti Gatwa take on the role of The Doctor, with Coronation Street’s Millie Gibson as his human companion, Ruby Sunday.

Doctor Who composer confirms Jodie Whittaker’s final special is his last

Doctor Who composer confirms Jodie Whittaker’s final special is his last

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Doctor Who composer Segun Akinola

Doctor Who composer Segun Akinola has confirmed he will be leaving the BBC series following Jodie Whittaker’s final special as the Thirteenth Doctor.

In a post on Twitter, Akinola shared a photograph of a recent music score for Doctor Who, which had been autographed by members of the show’s cast and crew.

“Three Series, One Doctor, Four companions. The last few years on #doctorwho have been an amazing experience,” he wrote.

“I’d planned to stay for as long as Chris & Jodie were staying so the next episode will be my final one,” he continued, before offering his thanks to outgoing showrunner Chris Chibnall and various others, including Whittaker.

He concluded: “To the fans, thank you for welcoming me so warmly, I’ve always been grateful for that. Can’t wait to see where the story goes next!”

Russell T Davies recently teased that Whittaker’s final outing as The Doctor will have “lots of surprises”, after he was questioned about his upcoming return as Doctor Who showrunner.

Speaking on BBC One’s The One Show earlier this month, Davies (who will be taking over from Chibnall) refused to reveal any spoilers about his plans for the next season – in which Sex Education’s Ncuti Gatwa will be playing the new Doctor – stressing that he didn’t want to “upstage” Whittaker’s series farewell.

“I can’t say [any spoilers] honestly, because what is coming up in October this year is Jodie Whittaker’s farewell, so I feel like I’m upstaging her slightly,” he said.

“I just saw the finished version of that two days ago. It’s a 90-minute epic, it’s fantastic, [it] is gorgeous. Lots of surprises.”