Tom wrote The Boy Who Kicked Pigs in 1999 and it was published by Faber & Faber. It a darkly comic story about a bad boy who causes havoc at home and in his neighbourhood. This subversive horror-fantasy is outrageous and funny – Faber & Faber The Boy Who Kicked Pigs is illustrated by David…
Who On Earth Is Tom Baker? An Autobiography © Tom Baker 1997 Excerpt from chapter 20 As I mow and sometimes read the graves I feel comforted by the quietness of the old churchyard and the unchanging thoughts on the old stones. “Not Dead, only sleeping” makes me smile wryly as I rev my powerful Honda…
Who On Earth is Tom Baker? An Autobiography © Tom Baker 1997 Excerpt from chapter 17 In The Deadly Assassin (third story in series 14 of Doctor Who) there was a scene where I was being held under water and where I had to appear genuinely afraid of death. It wasn’t too hard for me…
Who On Earth Is Tom Baker? An Autobiography © Tom Baker 1997 Excerpt from chapter 13 A (National Theatre) tour to America was announced. The productions of the Three Sisters, starring Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, and The Beaux Stratagem, again with Maggie and Bob and with Ronald Pickup as Archer, were booked to go to…
Who on Earth is Tom Baker? An Autobiography © Tom Baker 1997 Excerpt from chapter 13 It was approaching the time of the York Festival, a heavily cultural affair in the I960s. In between our broad comedy at the Theatre Royal I had been seeing a good deal of Laurie Taylor, my old friend from…
Who on Earth is Tom Baker? An Autobiography © Tom Baker 1997 Excerpt from chapter 10 And so at the interviews with the company sergeant-major, who had heard about my bent for God, it was decided that I should become the curator of the camp museum. This was quite a small building near the guardhouse…
Who on Earth is Tom Baker? An Autobiography © Tom Baker 1997 Excerpt from chapter 8 Once when I was on laundry duty I had to go and fetch the clean rough sheets for the dormitory. At the far end of an immense corridor, perhaps two hundred yards long, I rang an old brass bell and…
Who on Earth is Tom Baker? An Autobiography © Tom Baker 1997 Excerpt from chapter 1 My first ambition was to be an orphan. During the war of 1939-45, Liverpool was a good place to be. All routine was broken by the fear of death from the Germans’ bombs. The pleasure of being a child at…
Excerpts from Tom’s autobiography published in 1997 Chapter 1 My first ambition was to be an orphan. During the war of 1939-45, Liverpool was a good place to be. All routine was broken by the fear of death from the Germans’ bombs. The pleasure of being a child at that time is not easy to…
Tom and Sue lived in an old village house near Toulouse in SW France In 2002, Tom felt that good parts for him in television and film were drying up, so he and Sue decided to move to France. They sold The Bell House to Vic Reeves who got to know it during the filming of Randall and…