Peter Purves

Peter: (On Petra the "Blue Peter" dog he worked with for years) People imagined she was a German Shepherd, but she was some rough collie cross. She'd lost her teeth, developed diabetes, her eyes were bad and she was neurotic and badly bred. A mess.

Peter: (On what happened when he was bitten at a dog show in July 2008) I was examining the teeth and the ears of the third contestant of the day. I looked at its teeth, they were fine. When I looked in its ears, it just whipped its head round and bit me. It didn't indicate to me at all that it even might. At the time it was horrendous. Blood was spurting everywhere. It was a deep puncture, you can't even stitch them. We staunched the blood and wrapped it up and I finished off the judging of the class, disqualified the one that bit me, then went to the hospital.

Peter: (Commenting on the destroyed episodes from Doctor Who which he has narrated for a series of audio releases) I had forgotten most of the missing stories until Mark Ayres approached me to read the linking commentaries on the latest audio CD's, so I came to them quite fresh. I thought the scripts were great – and have always said that apart from the wonderful creation that was Bill's Doctor, the stories were script rather than character led. On revisiting the Massacre, I was overwhelmed by the quality of the writing. This was top class TV drama. And the Myth Makers was another favourite of mine. (Daleks Masterplan and Galaxy 4) were the poorest of the scripts, I felt, but it was a pleasure to remake them for an audience that can no longer see them. I think they make excellent radio plays.