Frank Skinner & Russell T Davies: "You're like a gay Shakespeare." 

I could listen to RTD for hours

its awesome hearing Russell mention It's a Sin back before it was even commissioned. I felt that the show was a second wind for his career in terms of awareness of his work with a mainstream audience, so its very exciting to have him ride that wave and return to Doctor Who with (hopefully) new and groundbreaking ideas!

Honestly would watch any video RTD is in. Brilliant guy.

What a lovely interview. And Frank is correct - Cucumber was an oustanding piece of television and that episode he mentions affected myself and my girlfriend for several days. I can still remember us sitting in silence afterward.

Two fantastic, witty, articulate, interesting fellows having a wonderful time discussing what they love, with someone they obviously love too. Heartwarming, engaging and thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you.

I'm shocked about how little attention Cucumber got, I had never heard about it until I randomly came across it yesterday. I've just watched the whole series on 4OD and... just wow. It was amazing. Frank was right about the Lance focused episode 6. The ending of that episode shook me to the core. After the episode ended, I just sat in silence and welled up, which is something I rarely do. The show felt viscerally real, beautiful and at times horrifying (end of episode 6). This is one of the best shows I've seen in years. Thank you for making it Russell, it was a beautiful story.

Great interview. I must admit when the Doctor Who reboot was coming in 2005 I had butterflies of anticipation in the hopes that it would be true to the original. I also thought that when Chris E uttered 'Run' that everything was going to be fantastic. Glad that Russell is coming back as show runner after Jodie & Chris finish up.

"and they are all Ian Levene" oh lord I laughed out loud - hahaha

RTD and Frank Skinner are my two favourites so this is 👌

I love RTD. Such an intelligent man. Where would Doctor Who be now without his rebooting it? Read The Writter's Tale. Interesting behind the scenes Doctor Who stuff.

To this day, I still can't listen to Tainted Love without hearing "Refreshment will now be served. Earth death in 30 minutes" at the beginning.

A point about Moffat undoing the time war that always miffed me was that he didn't really do anything with bringing the time lord backs. They were still effectively gone.

How about running Doctor Who again Russell ☺️

An episode of Torchwood had to be delivered, so you went clubbing. So funny. My writing hero. RTD.

Can’t wait till he comes back to DW, his era is the one I remember most fondly

Is this the greatest interview ever? Yes.

i thought shakespeare was the gay shakespeare

I sat next to Russell T Davies on a bench once. True story.

“Doctor Who is behind everything!”

I'm here after watching It's a Sin, it amazing hearing him talk about the early stages.

I'd love these two to get together and do a longer talk about Dr Who

RTD is the best!!!!

I love hearing about It's A Sin here as a throwaway comment, him saying there's a million ways to tell that story - and he chose the one that broke everybody's heart.

It's interesting that Russell talks about how we all start out as writers when we're children because I was just noticing how with a lot of creative types you often expect the seeds of their amazing creations to be something big and grand to match the creations themselves and then it turns out to be something rather simple or even boring which is almost a perfect behavioural match of what we do as children; we see a washing machine and it becomes a portal to another world, we see a stick and it suddenly becomes a sword of the grandest design, or, a favourite of mine, you see an apple and it becomes a hand grenade with the stalk acting as the pin. I say "creatives" rather than just writers specifically because the harnessing of imagination is something that all creative types use and often times they're all inspired by something that's simple or boring. To toot my own trumpet, I made a song that was simply inspired by that particular shade of blue that the sky turns after the sun has set, I also made one that was simply inspired by this one time when I lied down under a tree as the sun began to set, yeah it's a bit egotistical to use my own stuff as other examples but **shrug** there you go. Honestly I have a hard time believing people who label themselves as "not very creative". I think everyone is creative but can't always recognise it because they're distracted by whatever burdens their personal life is throwing at them.

Welcome back sir

The fucking Ian Levine name drop made me cry oml

He's back

I liked Cucumber. I can definitely see it not landing well with people 22ish and under. I'm 31 and I could still relate to the main character because I even feel like the old person now sometimes and know it's only going to get worse each year. I don't want to live as a 20 year old anymore but there are times where I wish I could just for a night. I loved how honest it was.

And now he's back 😁😁

12:13 you're welcome

Dang is this The south Bank or Sky Arts .... Young People need Role models more than ever for this day we are all hard in our ways of understanding our Faith our vision thankyou God bless your commitment to the Arts

He really isn't.

Russell is so entertaining and so animated. Such a good guy. ♥ ♥

Safe to say Chibnalls era of DW has not quite had the same impact. It's awful.

"Doctor Who is behind everything!"

Please come back to writing doctor who :(

Richard, you’re so tall

Yaaaasss Russell return, you have been summoned to fulfill your destiny

He looks younger and younger

Shakespeare may very well have been like a gay Shakespeare

1:20 oh, thank God. I thought he was going to say gorilla.

Hes the most normal lookin guy. A real "I could see him at a doctor who convention with a name tag and I'd think he was staff" lookin guy

Come back Russell T Davis doctor who needs you

rtd

Come back and save Doctor Who!!!

Sex should not destroy creativity..there should be room for both..

This man is a genius. Chibnall and moffat could only wish