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I'm your host, Mike Hall.

With me today is Marsh.

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And Alice.

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So I had, there's a thing in Doctor Who, there's a thing that Doctor Who fans have known

forever.

And that is that the doctor is allergic to aspirin.

Aspirin will kill him. That's a thing.

Actually kill him. We'll kill him. Wow.

And it's been a thing in fandom for age. We know this. But it's quite unusual because

we never talk about which episode it's in. You never see a clip of the doctor going,

oh, I'm allergic to aspirin. It never happens. But we all know the doctor is allergic to aspirin. And there was an issue, a Doctor Who magazine

recently, which had an interview with Russell T. Davis. And he said when they were filming the

first Eccleston series, Eccleston came to him and said, I've read on the internet that

the doctor's allergic to aspirin. Can we work that into a story somehow?

Can I be given aspirin in a hospital and then that's, you know, work that into the plot?

And Russell said, okay, right, and he kicked around some ideas about how they might work that

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