Episode 48: 13th February 2012: Mat Irvine, early BBC Special Effects Department and Sky at Night episode from 1963

Matt Irvine. Credit Mattirvine.com The same year that the first
woman made it into space in 1963, a quaint children’s sci-fi series
called Dr Who started on BBC television in the UK. 
Eventually, it became popular worldwide and has enjoyed success
once more since it restarted in 2005. Mat Irvine worked in the
special effects department of the BBC and made the
original model of K9 for Dr Who, but he also worked on other
programs, including The Sky at Night. One of the memorable
characters from Dr Who was Davros. The horribly scarred,
evil-looking megalomaniac creator of the Daleks and arch-enemy of
the Doctor. Listen out for my faux pas when I refer to Davros as
Stavros. In this episode, Mat talks about the special effects
department in those early days at the BBC and about the recently
resurfaced 1963 episode of Sky at Night featuring Arthur C Clark. A
clip from the missing episode was shown in the November 2011
edition of Sky at Night. You can see the full episode here.