Simon Winstone is a British

United Kingdom

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 author

Author

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 and editor, known for his work on Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

and on the BBC

BBC

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 soap opera

Soap opera

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 EastEnders

EastEnders

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Winstone worked for Virgin Books

Virgin Books

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, overseeing their Missing Adventures Doctor Who series and briefly being in charge of the New Adventures

Virgin New Adventures

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 after the series had ceased being a Doctor Who tie-in. His only novel, the New Adventure Where Angels Fear

Where Angels Fear

Where Angels Fear is an original novel by Rebecca Levene and Simon Winstone featuring the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield. The New Adventures were a spin-off from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who....

, was co-written with Rebecca Levene

Rebecca Levene

Rebecca Levene is a British author and editor, best known for editing Virgin's New Adventures series of original fiction Doctor Who novels.-Biography:...

, his predecessor on the New Adventures.

Winstone moved into TV, working on the soap Emmerdale

Emmerdale

Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...

for a period. He then worked on EastEnders for many years. In 2005, Winstone was announced as a script editor for the next series of Doctor Who on TV, a role he has continued into 2007.

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