Doctor Who: 10 Weird Things The Doctor Keeps In His Pockets
5. A Recorder
To help him think, as well as to generally keep himself amused (and others bemused), the Second Doctor enjoyed playing his recorder. Jamie, presumably fed up with it, once made him leave it in the TARDIS (The Enemy of the World) and the Doctor was forced to mime his piping instead. But much like the Sonic Screwdriver, the Doctor cant help tinkering - his recorder also doubled as a spyglass in The Wheel in Space and The Invasion. Tackling the Cybermen again in The Moonbase, he even used it to disrupt their sonic control over people. It was also integral to his defeat of Omega in The Three Doctors. So just bear that in mind the next time youre in music class and someone hands you a recorder. It could just save the universe one day. Well, this is assuming that you get sent to a universe of anti-matter with two of your other selves to face an ancient stellar engineer gone mad with power. Normal weekend for some.
Joel Cornah, is an author hailing from a small isolated village in Lancashire.
Having told stories of dinosaurs, penguins and dragons to his younger siblings for nigh on two decades, it soon became apparent that these tales needed to be written down. Gathering the myriad of maps, family trees, illustrations and noted ideas, he began work on the world of dyngard. Having grown along with the audience from a collection of loosely related children’s stories, it became a whole world of adventure, magic and questions.
He was awarded a degree in Creative Writing from Liverpool John Moors University and spent seven years writing a comical newspaper for The Barrow Downs Tolkien discussion forum.
Currently running a charity café in Parbold village, Joel is often found deep in discussion of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, the long history of Doctor Who, and desperately trying not to frighten people away. Often with limited success.
