The Greatest Showman

The life of John Nathan-Turner comes to the stage in Me And Him And Who

- STEPHEN JEWELL

HAVING PRODUCED DOCTOR Who from 1980 until its cancellation in 1989, John Nathan-Turner was the Russell T Davies of his day. His colourful and sometimes tragic life has been chronicled in Me And Him And Who.

Written by Stephen Wyatt, who scripted "Paradise Towers" and "The Greatest Show In The Galaxy", the play (first released as an audio drama) is now being staged in Manchester in late January before touring.

"John Nathan-Turner is obviously the key figure in Who in the '80s," Wyatt tells Red Alert. "Not least because he kept it going against all the financial odds and the tepid support tending towards downright hostility of the BBC drama department.