Doctor: There are things, Amy. Everyone’s memory is a mess, life is a mess! Everyone’s got memories of a holiday they could’ve been on or a party they never went to, or met someone for the first time but felt like they’ve known them all their lives. Time is being rewritten all around us, everyday. People think their memories are bad, but their memories are fine. The past is really like that.
Amy: That’s ridiculous.
Doctor: Yeah, now you’re starting to get it.

Steven mentioned the fez to Piers [Wenger] and I before he even wrote it. He said, “I’m thinking of putting Matt in a fez in episode 13.” And of course both Piers’ and my jaws hit the floor and went “A fez? You’re kidding me, you’re going to put Matt in a fez? If we put Matt in a fez, Matt will never take the fez off. He will want to wear the fez for the whole of the next series. It will be glued to his head. He’ll be wearing it, you know, with his own clothes. It will be a nightmare.” And he said, “No no, I’ve got a cunning plan; as soon as he’s got the fez I’m going to kill the fez.”

— Beth Willis, Doctor Who producer

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Her favourite episode from last season’s Doctor Who was the one written by the novelist Neil Gaiman, in which the team visit a shadowy, liminal planet whose inhabitants subsist on second-hand possessions and body parts. She loves anything old, hates anything new and wears a cross handed down by her paternal grandmother, a singer who never pursued her passion professionally and was a great inspiration to her granddaughter. She died long before Karen became Amy Pond. ‘She was the one who gave me the determination to do all this; in a weird way I am living out her dreams.’

Evening Standard piece today on Karen, her career, and her love of vintage.