Tom Baker, best known as the narrator for Little Britain and the fourth Doctor from Doctor Who has lent his voice (in the form of phonemes) to the BT Text to landline service. What does this mean in plain English? If you send text messages to a BT Landline (the majority of phone lines in the UK are BT) then you can have Tom Baker read the messages out.
Recently this has changed to the voice of the woman who does the standard BT Answer voice, but by prefixing your message with *M#, you can specify that Tom speaks your bidding. Of course this opens up the possibility of all kinds of Baker-related abuse and humour opportunities, although someone’s already taken up the challenge.
Update: There’s another hilarious Tom Baker prank SMS site here
Still, (and quite irrelevantly) The New Doctor Who really isn’t something to write home about…