A rare Doctor Who recording is set to be played in Eastleigh this weekend as part of a day of Doctor Who celebrations.

A radio interview with Patrick Troughton – the second actor to portray the iconic timelord – conducted on his 67th birthday, just three days before he died, will be transmitted at The Concorde Club to two of Troughton’s former Doctor Who companions, Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury.

Only transmitted locally in the north of England at the time of the recording, the interview will now air in full for the first time almost 40 years later.

Speaking to the Echo, Richard Latto, organiser of Doctor Who Day at The Concorde Club on Saturday, June 21, said: “This is a very significant recording in the history of Doctor Who because Patrick Troughton didn’t do many interviews and this was potentially the last interview he ever did.

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“It was recorded only three days before he very suddenly and sadly passed at a convention in the United States.

“It was recorded while he was still here, in the UK, on his actual birthday. It was recorded by a local radio station in the north of the country, and it hasn’t been heard outside of that transmission area since it was transmitted in 1987, and we have found not only that full interview but the rushes from that interview as well.

“We will be playing the recording to two of his former colleagues and companions – Wendy Padbury and Frazer Hines – who played Zoe and Jamie at our event on Saturday, so it should be a very emotional and special occasion.”

Peter Davison, who played the fifth incarnation of the Doctor, will also be appearing at the event, which is scheduled to run from 10am until 5pm.

In a sneak peek of the rare recording that Richard shared on X, Patrick Troughton can be heard passionately championing the sci-fi show, stating it should continue to air in the same year Sylvester McCoy would be announced as the seventh actor to play Doctor Who, and the last of its original run that dates back to 1963.

In the clip shared on social media, Patrick said: “It’s got to go on, it’s the longest running science fiction serial in the world and it’s always got to go on, of course it has.”