Purple People, a new compilation CD from Purple Records, is out in June and features a special bonus track of Jon Pertwee's "Who Is the Doctor"? There's also details on the site of the history behind this song. (Thanks to Keith Hollinshed)

Shada, the BBCi webcast starring Paul McGann and Lalla Ward, is now back up and able to be played from the officialDoctor Who site. (Thanks to Rich Kirkpatrick)

According to the Bucks Free Press on June 7, Colin Baker recently visited Wycome High School in Marlow Road last Thursday for a discussion with students about the science fiction genre. "Legends and myths have always fascinated me," Baker told the Press. Students were quite pleased and seemed to take more interest in science fiction, one student discovering that like himself, Colin is a John Wyndham fan. (Thanks to Paul Engelberg)

Artist Jeff Cummins, whose many covers for the Target Doctor Who novelisation range includes "The Talons of Weng-Chiang," "Horror of Fang Rock," "The Three Doctors" and the exquisite painting for the cover of "The Face of Evil," has a new website in which he showcases his Target covers and other pieces of illustration including the sleeves for out of print records he designed. Visit the site at www.jeffcummins.com. (Thanks to Jeff Cummins)

This Sunday's Points of View on BBC1 will feature a brief on the TARDIS in the new series... a question about whether or not it'll be in the shape of a London police box! The program airs on June 13 at 3:45pm. (Thanks to David Brider)

Issue #69 of Time Space Visualiser, the journal of the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club (and one of the best DW fanzines still in print today, in our opinion!) is out and features Rob Shearman's episode by episode critique of Season 21, Paul Cornell's experiences writing Scream of the Shalka on his New Zealand honeymoon, Fan video productions in New Zealand, Invasion of the Dinosaurs reappraised - with the aid of diagrams, The Horns of Nimon gets taken Beyond the Sofa, Andrew Pixley documents cut script extracts from The Daleks' Master Plan, the full results of the TSV 40th anniversary survey, reviews of the latest DVDs, audios and books and much more. For ordering details go towww.doctorwho.org.nz. (Thanks to Paul Scoones)

Updates on two forthcoming books from Mad Norwegian Press. The re-release of Lawrence Miles' Dead Romance, originally printed by Virgin as part of the New Adventures series, will be this August, not October as we had previously reported. And due to work on another project, MNP has delayed the release of I, Who 4 to "sometime in 2005"; the book is the fourth in their series examining Doctor Who fiction, both printed (Virgin, BBC Books, Telos) and audio (Big Finish, BBV). (Thanks to Lars Pearson)

The play Forever Mine, a black comedy fantasy written by Rob Shearman, the popular Doctor Who audio dramatist and writer of one of the forthcoming episodes of the new series, will be broadcast on Radio Four on Monday June 14 at 2:15pm. The radio play stars Richard Briers ("Paradise Towers"), Pauline Collins, Janie Dee and Jane Goddard, and is directed by Martin Jarvis ("Vengeance on Varos"). Check it out! (Thanks to Rob Shearman)

The new MP3-CD release of Death Comes to Time, which went on sale on June 7, has a technical fault that apparently has been noticed and will be rectified in a second printing. "There is a slight problem with the first pressing which computer users may spot when watching Episode Three of the original animated version," says the press release from the BBC Radio Collection, "everything grinds to a halt three quarters of the way through. This is a technical glitch, which has now been solved, and the second pressing - due at the end of June - will be bug-free. If you're dissatisfied with your disc and would like to have it exchanged, you can contact BBC Audio customer services on tel. 01225 443400, or by email at info@audiobookcollection.com. Meanwhile, the problem with Episode 3 can be circumnavigated by selecting the 'Play All' option, in which the whole episode plays well. Range editor Michael Stevens said, 'We're very sorry about this hiccup. Joseph Conrad wrote that it's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, and according to James Joyce errors are the portals of discovery. Here at BBC Audio, we say 'Hear, hear' - and add an epithet of our own. 'When adventuring with Doctor Who in the frontiers of technology, there's always a lull in Episode Three!'" (Thanks to Laura Burch at BBC Audiobooks)

As promised, Outpost Gallifrey is able to reveal the cover illustration for the forthcoming Howe's Transcendental Toybox: 2003 Update by David Howe and Arnold T. Blumberg, the guide to Doctor Who merchandise and collectibles. Click on the cover for a larger version (the full wraparound cover.) The 2003 update, as we previously noted, covers all material from that year and updates the previous release of the "Toybox" book, instead of a mere reprint of the same volume. We hope to have a special preview of the book up at OG soon! (Thanks to David Howe)