Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell was a philosopher that the Fourth Doctor claimed to have met. (AUDIO: The Justice of Jalxar [+]Loading...["The Justice of Jalxar (audio story)"]) The Eighth Doctor recalled a picnic in a dusty valley with Russell, Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley and Greta Garbo. (PROSE: The Scarlet Empress [+]Loading...["The Scarlet Empress (novel)"])
Adric told Tegan that Principia Mathematica was by "a chap called Bert Russell". (TV: Four to Doomsday [+]Loading...["Four to Doomsday (TV story)"])
The First Doctor recalled that Russell had once said "something about the fact that the Earth’s sun having risen for countless millions of years being no guarantee that it would rise tomorrow." (PROSE: Galaxy Four [+]Loading...["Galaxy Four (novelisation)"])
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- Timewyrm: Exodus [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)"] references real-world Nazi plans, discovered after World War II, to arrest many significant British figures during Operation Sealion. Known as The Black Book in real life, Russell was on that list.
