Mark Williams breaking off at the Crucible. Andrew Orton is in the third row of the audience.

I was on telly quite a lot last night apparently (in the audience, with bare arms)…

Andrew Orton at the Crucible in Sheffield.

As you might notice, I’m no longer in Vietnam… #snooker

If you’d have looked south-west I’d have given you a wave

A screenshot of the script of Marco Polo episode 1, in which ‘Doctor Who locks the ship’ is badly printed so it looks like ‘Doctor Who looks the shit’.

DOCTOR WHO LOOKS THE SHIT
#DoctorWho

A screenshot of the script of Marco Polo episode 1, in which ‘Doctor Who locks the ship’ is badly printed so it looks like ‘Doctor Who looks the shit’.

DOCTOR WHO LOOKS THE SHIT
#DoctorWho

I am, but at times it’s more like the Gobi Desert than the Himalaya…

Cheees, mate - all received. I’d forgotten they were on the audio release, which I think I’ve got somewhere - but I’m in Vietnam at the moment, so thank you!

Does any mind soul have camera scripts for Marco Polo? #DoctorWho

About half two

A Hmong lady happily thrusting a spoon full of fried grasshoppers into Andrew Orton’s happy mouth

First time I’ve been fed a spoonful of grasshoppers

It’s just ‘What?’. But it’s ‘What?’ like Tom Baker says it in #DoctorWho, as an exclamation. ‘What? Daleks, here?’

Though if I have to change it, I’d go with, ‘Anyway, right…’

Andrew Orton eating a grasshopper from chopsticks.

Fuck off, grasshopper

The great Peter Howell @ph-incoming.bsky.social is now on BlueSky - give him a follow!

Oo-ee-oo… #DoctorWho

10,326 ft. Air’s thin up there…

I’ve never looked so camp

Andrew Orton at the top of Mount Fansipan.

A large statue of Buddha with a smaller statue of another mythological character in front. The latter looks angry.

A Vietnamese bell tower: tall and grey with a red tiled roof.

A Buddhist temple with red tiled roofs.

The Roof of Indochina. Mount Fansipan - and the highest I’ve ever been!

Andrew Orton

In Vietnam

Cheers, Dave - pleased you enjoyed it! Had great fun with the TV studio chapter :)

A collection of clothed, silver-faced mannequins.

The deleted Auton scene from The Five Doctors #DoctorWho

All the best, Frank.

Oh, and Hartnell played the Abbot of Amboise naked, but I don’t know if that counts

That shot of Brian Cant’s dead body genuinely made me recoil. Canfield was a genius. #DoctorWho #TDMP

Nah, Barbara was topless throughout Marco Polo 3.

Yeah - casting obscures it a little, but he’s right out of The Cursed Earth or ABC

Sylvester McCoy is the best doctor who

There’s so much Halo Jones in Paradise Towers and Dragonfire too: the Towers are very much like the Hoop, replete with its own language (‘ice hot!’) and Ace is very Halo-y.

They’re local lanyards for local people

Steve Pemberton and Andrew Orton.

In Hanoi for my birthday. Bumped into Steve Pemberton.

Only celeb I’ve ever seen on a holiday and I’ve seen him on two consecutive ones.

I’m very conscious I owe you an email too…

The really weird thing, which I didn’t tell him, is that I saw him on my last holiday too, in the Outer Hebrides…