On 11 June 2005, during a BBC radio interview, when asked if he had enjoyed working on "Doctor Who", Eccleston responded by saying, "Mixed, but that's a long story." Eccleston's reasons for leaving the role continue to be debated in Britain's newspapers: on 4 October 2005 Alan Davies told "The Daily Telegraph" that Eccleston had been "overworked" by the BBC, and had left the role because he was "exhausted". Eccleston would later go on to say that he left the show because he "didn't enjoy the environment and the culture that the cast and crew had to work in", but that he was proud of having played the role. Eccleston said in a subsequent interview, "My relationship with my three immediate superiors – the showrunner, the producer and co-producer – broke down irreparably during the first block of filming and it never recovered."