So what's been Tony Hall's biggest thrill since he became director general of the BBC? When he counted up the full cost of the Digital Media Initiative, maybe? Something to do with severance payoffs? Or one of those multifarious appearances before MPs' select committees perhaps. Answer: none of them. It was, he tells the new issue of Radio Times, the moment he got to stand inside the Tardis on the set of Doctor Who. "Quite possibly the most exciting moment of my time as DG came during a visit to the set in Cardiff. The cast and crew let me 'fly' the Tardis, that is to say, stand at the central console while they ran the special effect lights," wrote Hall. "I was the Birkenhead schoolboy once again. And at one point Matt Smith leant over and said, 'Whatever you do, don't touch that." And just for a moment, it was all I wanted to do. Set a course and head off to the galaxy." An out of this (BBC) World(wide) experience.
