To Be 44 to 47 Years Younger (and living in the UK)

According to the BBC's Doctor Who website if you are between the ages of 9 and 12 and live in the UK (they never do cool things like this for their US viewers) you could write a script for Doctor Who!

Script to Screen is back... And this time, if you're aged 9-11 years old you can write an adventure for the Doctor set anywhere in time and space...

The challenge is simple. Schoolchildren aged 9-11 should write a mini-episode that features the Doctor in an Olympic-themed adventure. Amy and Rory can be included in the script alongside one of four familiar alien species plus a brand new human character.

It's been confirmed that once again, the winning script will be produced by the Doctor Who team and broadcast on the BBC. The winners will meet the stars of the show, visit the set and see their mini-episode being shot...

Following the 2011 competition a survey found that 96% of teachers believed it was an excellent tool for teaching literacy and writing skills. Steven Moffat, Doctor Who's lead writer and executive producer, reflected, 'I come from a family of teachers, I was a teacher, my father's a teacher, my sister's a teacher. We go back teacher generations so it's hard wired for me to want the approval of teachers so I'm very, very thrilled that its gone down so well with the schools that took part.'

Caroline Skinner, executive producer of Doctor Who, looked forward to the return of Script to Screen and commented, 'It's so exciting to be able to challenge young writers in this way. Doctor Who is such an amazing show to work on. It really sets the imaginations of viewers alight, and it's a thrilling prospect to see where young members of our audience would like to see the Doctor go this time!'

BONUS MATERIAL:

Do you know how the Tardis got its sound? According to Oliver Kealey at Cracked.com:

The effect was created by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which in the 1960s was the foremost sound department in the world, pioneering new sci-fi sound effects that mixed organic and synthetic sources into a strangely awesome cacophonic blend.

The most awesome part of the TARDIS noise? They're still using variations of the original effect that the Radiophonic Workshop made 50 years ago.

BONUS BONUS MATERIAL:

Actually a request. If you like what you see here, please click on one of the advertisers on my website. I am making a little bit of money thru this, unfortunately more than I am selling my ebook "Dr Zombie Lives Next Door".
And if you really like what you see here, please "follow" my site, tell all your friends, and tell me too. Leave me a comment. Thanks.