Nicholas Pegg

Nicholas Pegg is a British actor, director and writer.

Education

Educated at Nottingham High School and graduating with a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Exeter,[1][2] Pegg subsequently trained at the Guildford School of Acting.

Acting

Pegg's acting work in the theatre includes productions for Nottingham Playhouse, Scottish Opera, Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the Theatre Royal, Plymouth.[3] His television roles include appearances in EastEnders, Doc Martin and It's a Sin, and he has appeared as a Dalek operator in numerous episodes of Doctor Who.[4] In his capacity as a Dalek operator he has also appeared in person on Blue Peter and in many editions of the documentary series Doctor Who Confidential. In November 2013 he appeared as himself in the 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.[5]

Pegg has also worked on Doctor Who in the audio medium, acting, writing and directing for several Doctor Who audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions. For the same company, he played the Duke of Albany in King Lear (2017),[6] Foxy-Faced Charles in The Box of Delights (2021),[7] the Law Machines in Torchwood (2018),[8] and Captain Smollett in Treasure Island (2013).[9] His other acting roles include Gervais of Waringham in the 2020 Audible serial The Waringham Chronicles,[10] and its 2017-18 Audible prequel serial Scarlet City,[11] and Robert Wintour in the 2012 comedy film The Plotters. For the audiobook company Textbook Stuff he recorded the collected poems of Andrew Marvell,[12] and for Penguin Audiobooks in 2013 he read the Doctor Who short stories Tip of the Tongue by Patrick Ness and Spore by Alex Scarrow.

On 19 January 2014, Pegg wrote and performed The UKIP Shipping Forecast, a satirical response to the pronouncements of various high-profile members of the UK Independence Party. The sketch went viral, receiving 250,000 hits in 4 days.

Writing

David Bowie

As a writer, Nicholas Pegg is a noted authority on the life and work of David Bowie. He is the author of The Complete David Bowie (ISBN 9781785653650), published by Titan Books and described by Bowie's long-time producer Tony Visconti as "the best Bowie reference book one could ever hope for".[13] Pegg has acted as consultant and contributor to numerous Bowie projects, including the 2022 Brett Morgen film Moonage Daydream, the BBC TV documentaries David Bowie: Five Years (2013) and David Bowie: The Last Five Years (2017), the Victoria and Albert Museum's exhibition David Bowie Is, the BBC Radio 2 documentary Exploring 'Life On Mars? (2017),[14] and the same year's Royal Mail edition of commemorative Bowie stamps.[15] He also worked on the Isle of Man Post Office's 2022 issue of commemorative stamps celebrating David Bowie's acting career.[16] In May 2016 Pegg joined Marc Almond on stage at London's Ace Hotel to co-host a tribute to Bowie in the company of Lindsay Kemp,[17] while in January 2017 Pegg teamed up with Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet to make a short film for The Guardian website to mark the first anniversary of Bowie's death.[18]

Also in 2017, Pegg appeared as a guest Bowie speaker at events including the Penzance Literary Festival[19] and the Victoria and Albert Museum's Celebrating Bowie at 70.[20] Since 2018 he has been a regular contributor to the Album to Album Bowie podcast series.[21] In 2019 and 2021 he was a guest speaker at the annual Dublin Bowie Festival,[22] and in 2022 he compered the David Bowie World Fan Convention in Liverpool, a role he would reprise at the 2023 event in New York.[23] He also appeared as a Bowie expert in the 2007 TV documentary series Seven Ages of Rock, and has hosted Bowie radio specials for broadcasters in Australia and the United Kingdom.[24][25]

In 2018, the author Philip Reeve revealed that Pegg's book The Complete David Bowie had "played an inspirational role" in the genesis of Reeve's Railhead trilogy of novels.[26]

Decades

Nicholas Pegg is the co-creator of the 2017 concept album Decades, a collaboration with songwriter David Palfreyman which features a cast of notable actors, singers and musicians, including David Warner, Richard Coyle, Jacqueline Pearce, Jan Ravens, Simon Greenall, Edward Holtom, Sarah Jane Morris, Cassidy Janson, Mitch Benn, Jessica Lee Morgan, Ian Shaw, Gary Barnacle, Greg Hart, Terry Edwards and Martyn Barker.[27][28][29][30][31] In April 2018 he appeared with David Palfreyman on the Vintage TV show The Vintage TV Sessions,[32] introducing a live session by the Decades band, having previously presented a 2017 edition of the same channel's video jukebox show My Vintage, during which he introduced a selection of his favourite music videos and premiered the videos for the Decades singles 'We All Fall Down' and 'Hurting, Sinking'.[33]

Scriptwriting

Pegg has written stage plays, including numerous pantomimes for British theatres including Harrogate Theatre, the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, the MacRobert Playhouse in Stirling, and the Theatre Royal, Nottingham.[34][35][36][37] He is also the author of the Doctor Who audio play The Spectre of Lanyon Moor, and he adapted the text of King Lear for the 2017 Big Finish version starring David Warner.[38]

Other writing

Pegg has written for publications including Mojo, Q Magazine, Pride Life, and Doctor Who Magazine. His other writing credits include the short stories Deep Water and Hold Your Horses for the 2008 and 2009 Doctor Who Storybooks as well as contributions to The Doctor Who Annual and The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who. He has also written numerous features for the BBC's range of DVD releases of the Doctor Who television series. He wrote Cheques, Lies and Videotape, a documentary about the heyday of pirate videos, which appeared on the DVD release of Revenge of the Cybermen. He also wrote When Worlds Collide, a documentary about politics and ideology in Doctor Who, which appeared on the DVD release of The Happiness Patrol, and A Matter of Time, a documentary about Doctor Who under the producership of Graham Williams, which was the leading special feature on the Key to Time series box set. Pegg has worked as script editor on several other documentary features, appears as moderator for the Doctor Who DVD audio commentaries of The Mutants and Resurrection of the Daleks (Special Edition), and wrote the "info text" subtitles for many DVD releases.

In October 2017 Pegg, under his regular pseudonym of The Watcher, concealed a crude acrostic message in his regular "Wotcha" column in Doctor Who Magazine, in which the first letters of each sentence spelled out the message "Panini ..." (publishers of Doctor Who Magazine) " ...and BBC Worldwide are cunts".[39] This was widely reported as leading to his sacking from the magazine and from Doctor Who.[40][41][42] These reports turned out to be inaccurate, as Pegg has continued to work regularly on the series. Alternative accounts suggest that the decision to axe his column had already been made and that it was this decision that led to Pegg writing the hidden message.[43] Pegg's column that month was subtitled "The column that is not something to be shuffled off on to some stray boffin, you know" (ostensibly a reference to a line of dialogue by the character Brownrose from the 1971 story Terror of the Autons, mentioned in passing in the article.)[39]

Directing

In addition to several Doctor Who audio plays for the Big Finish series, Pegg's work as a director includes theatre productions of Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Peter Pan, Funny Money, I Thought I Heard a Rustling, and Diary of a Somebody.[3]

Personal life

Pegg's long-term partner is actor Barnaby Edwards. Guesting at the 2017 Pride Cymru event Who's Queer Now, a symposium celebrating the impact and influences of Doctor Who on LGBT people, the couple revealed that they were celebrating their 25th anniversary.[26][44]

Doctor Who credits

Pegg has operated the Daleks in numerous episodes of Doctor Who since 2005:

He has also written, featured in or directed a number of Doctor Who audio plays for Big Finish Productions:[45]

Pegg has also contributed to the following Doctor Who DVD releases:

References

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  2. ^ "The Exe-Terminators: An interview with the Daleks – Part 2". 29 September 2015.
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  7. ^ "19. The Box of Delights". bigfinish.com. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
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  10. ^ "The Waringham Chronicles". thebookloversboudoir.wordpress.com. 21 March 2020.
  11. ^ "Scarlet City: An Audible Original Series". Audible.com. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
  12. ^ "Andrew Marvell Society – Connecting Marvellians".
  13. ^ "Nicholas Pegg - the Complete David Bowie".
  14. ^ "BBC Radio 2 - Exploring 'Life on Mars?'".
  15. ^ "Bowie is First Artist Honored with Royal Mail Stamps". 25 January 2017.
  16. ^ "David Bowie: Actor". iompost.com. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  17. ^ "REVIEW | Lindsay Kemp: My Life and Work with David Bowie -". 27 May 2016.
  18. ^ Gormley, Jess; Sprenger, Richard; Dennis, Jon; Silverstone, Tom (10 January 2017). "David Bowie remembered by two of his biggest fans – video". The Guardian.
  19. ^ http://www.pzlitfest.co.uk/event/bowie-in-the-bar-with-nicholas-pegg-and-members-of-the-bowie-lounge/ [dead link‍]
  20. ^ "Let's Dance: Remembering David Bowie". The Week. 5 January 2017.
  21. ^ "DAVIDBOWIE: ALBUMTOALBUM on acast".
  22. ^ "Dublin Bowie Festival 2021: Tony Visconti, Rick Wakeman, Woody Woodmansey and more set to feature". hotpress.com. 9 December 2020.
  23. ^ "David Bowie World Fan Convention". bowieconvention.com. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  24. ^ "Illustrated db Discography Forum • View topic - Nicholas Pegg on Oz radio this weekend - 2 hr Bowie special".
  25. ^ "Bowie author waxes lyrical on the Spitting Feathers Radio Show". 27 March 2014.
  26. ^ a b "Philip Reeve". www.philip-reeve.com. Archived from the original on 11 May 2018.
  27. ^ "SPILL FEATURE: DECADES - A CONVERSATION WITH NICHOLAS PEGG AND DAVID PALFREYMAN". The Spill Magazine. 13 July 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  28. ^ "James R. Turner Talks to David Palfreyman and Nicholas Pegg about 'Decades'". 11 October 2017.
  29. ^ "Art rock album reviews round-up". 6 September 2017.
  30. ^ "Review – Nicholas Pegg & David Palfreyman – Decades – by James R. Turner". 10 September 2017.
  31. ^ "SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: DAVID PALFREYMAN AND NICHOLAS PEGG - DECADES". The Spill Magazine. 14 July 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  32. ^ "The Vintage TV Sessions Ep 39 – Vintage TV". Archived from the original on 16 May 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
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  34. ^ "Theatre review: Jack and the Beanstalk at Harrogate Theatre".
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  36. ^ "5-star Aladdin at the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch - Review". December 2015.
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  38. ^ "REVIEW: King Lear is a Cinematic Shakespeare Adaptation for Audio". 24 October 2017.
  39. ^ a b History of Doctor Who in 100 Objects - #87: The Doctor's Pufferfish" - "Wotcha" by "The Watcher" (Nicholas Pegg) Doctor Who Magazine 516, Panini Comics 2017
  40. ^ "Dalek sacked from Doctor Who for hiding this offensive message". Daily Mirror. November 2017.
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