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Robert Shearman


Born
in Horsham, Sussex, The United Kingdom
February 10, 1970

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Robert Shearman has worked as a writer for television, radio and the stage. He was appointed resident dramatist at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter and has received several international awards for his theatrical work, including the Sunday Times Playwriting Award, the World Drama Trust Award and the Guinness Award for Ingenuity in association with the Royal National Theatre. His plays have been regularly produced by Alan Ayckbourn, and on BBC Radio by Martin Jarvis. However, he is probably best known as a writer for Doctor Who, reintroducing the Daleks for its BAFTA winning first series, in an episode nominated for a Hugo Award.

His first collection of short stories, Tiny Deaths, was published by Comma Press in 2007. It won the World Fantasy
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Into 2013…!

Hello, everyone!


I’m notoriously bad at keeping time. Partly because I like to play with my watch strap, and so keep taking the watch off, and leaving it all over the house, and forgetting where I put it. I am a watch-owning individual, but for days on end I walk about London with my wrist completely watchless, because I left the watch somewhere underneath a pile of papers or in the cupboard with t

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“So it's okay. Go out there bravely, and know the first good thing you do will be on the back of many bad things. So let the bad things count, and enjoy writing them too.”
Robert Shearman

“Then Rose said, "I'm sorry. All those people who died. And all because of me. I didn't know what I was doing..."

And he took her in his arms, and she hugged on to him tightly. At last, he let go.

"Rose," he said. "Look at me." So she did. And he saw how much she trusted him still, in spite of everything. "You were the only one who showed any kindness or compassion. You were the only one who even came close to knowing what they were doing.”
Robert Shearman, Doctor Who: Dalek

“Rose! Get out of the way!"

It was the Doctor. But for a moment she couldn't recognize him. It wasn't just because he was carrying a huge gun, and was aiming it directly at her. It was the cold determination on his face. She could have taken the anger, she would have been all right with that. But not the coldness.

"No," she said.

And a flutter of something else that was new across the Doctor's face. Surprise? No, more - shock.

"I'm not going to let you do this," she said.”
Robert Shearman, Doctor Who: Dalek

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