Macra Magic

David gets crabby in new DWM.

"If you had to make a poll of monsters least likely to make a reappearance," grins David Tennant, "the Macra would probably be fairly near the top!"

"So it's kind of cool, isn't it?" he tells Doctor Who Magazine as they go behind the scenes of Gridlock. "If you're gonna do giant crabs, there's no point them being anything other than Macra, seeing as they already exist.

"It's one of the joys of being involved with a series which has got all this history for free. You can just sprinkle in all these nuggets of recognition for those who'll get them."

Elswhere, the David vs Freema Shakespeare Quotes Quiz separates the Bards from the boys.

"It's unfair, 'cos David's done loads of Shakespeare," says Freema. "I hope my old English teacher doesn't read this..."

If theat wasn't enough, James Strong opens up his frank and funny Daleks in Manhattan journal to DWM readers in the first of a major two-part feature, Paul Cornell tells us all about writing the Doctor's Human Nature and The Time Team celebrate reaching 600 episodes with The King's Demons and The Five Doctors!

DWM 382 goes on sale from 3 May 2007, priced £3.99.