In August 1972, Miss Newman complained about Capaldi in a letter to Mr Miller. She said: ‘You’re not by any means worse than Peter C... I think he’s the end and I wish the Daleks or someone would exterminate him or something to that effect.’
Mr Miller recalled the harassed BBC secretary even jokingly asked him to ‘sort him out’.
He said: ‘During the next phone call to Sarah, I asked how things were going with Peter Capaldi. "Oh god, I wish someone would sort him out." Then she paused. "Actually, he lives in Scotland too - could you pop over to Glasgow and sort him out for me?"'