Classics and Careers Season 3, Episode 3: Scott Handcock, Director and Producer

Scott Handcock is a TV and audio producer, writer, and director. Having recently worked as Assistant Producer on the BBC’s ‘The War Between the Land and the Sea’, he has been Script Editor for Doctor Who and Head Writer on spin-off Torchwood.

He discusses how his Classics degree at the University of Birmingham has influenced his writing and his career in drama, his favourite chocolate, which ancient character he resonates with most, working on the iconic tenth doctor episode Fires of Pompeii, and meeting a very famous canine…

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