Thread: Doctor Who on the Radio 23 June
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4th Jun 2009, 8:20 AM #1
Doctor Who on the Radio 23 June
Coming soon to Radio 4:
On the Outside it Looked Like an Old Fashioned Police Box
Tuesday 23rd June - BBC Radio 4 - 11.30am-12.00pm
Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who writer and fanatic, presents a feature exploring the hugely popular Doctor Who novelisations of the 1970s and 80s published by Target books.
In an age before DVD and video, the Target book series of Doctor Who fiction was conceived as the chance for children to 'keep' and revisit classic Doctor Who. They were marketed as such, written in a highly visual house style.
Descriptive passages did the work of the TV camera; the scripts were more or less faithfully reproduced as dialogue. They were as close to the experience of watching as possible and were adored by a generation of children who grew up transfixed by the classic BBC series.
Target Doctor Who books became a children's publishing phenomenon selling more than 13 million copies worldwide. From 1973 until 1994, the Target Doctor Who paperbacks were a mainstay of the publishing world.
From humble beginnings they grew into a list running to 156 titles, shaping the reading habits of a generation.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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4th Jun 2009, 8:32 AM #2
Or will this just be them playing disc three of The War Games up close to a microphone?
For every fail, there is an equal and opposite win.
...Oh, who am I kidding?
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4th Jun 2009, 8:51 AM #3Pip Madeley Guest
Why do they always put these things on when you're nowhere near a radio?
I love iPlayer.
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4th Jun 2009, 9:00 PM #4
Yes, this will definitely be one to catch up with on I Player.
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4th Jun 2009, 9:16 PM #5
Superb, sounds really good.
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4th Jun 2009, 9:19 PM #6
But they said it really loud, they said it on the air, on the radio whoa oh oh.
One imagines it'll be on some Doctor Who at the BBC CD before too long.
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5th Jun 2009, 6:21 PM #7
Oh wow! That does sound superb. It's funny, that sort of documentary would have been a bit of a niche thing years ago, but now they're putting it on Radio 4.
Of course, it will provide a nice plug for the audiobooks, too...
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23rd Jun 2009, 8:31 AM #8
Don't forget this is on this morning! On the Outside it Looked Like an Old Fashioned Police Box
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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23rd Jun 2009, 12:35 PM #9
There's a mlovely article related to this on the BBC webiste today: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8113603.stm
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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23rd Jun 2009, 8:11 PM #10
I quite liked it. Wish I hadn't read that article first though because it's basically just an edited transcript of the programme.
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23rd Jun 2009, 8:16 PM #11Pip Madeley Guest
Was nice to hear people like RTD talking about them. As someone who hasn't much interest in the Target books (never actively collected them) I thought it was a nice, informative guide.
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23rd Jun 2009, 8:20 PM #12
I thought it was a lovely little tribute to the books. I certainly progressed from Dicks to Dickens. And once Escaped to danger. Maybe.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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23rd Jun 2009, 8:30 PM #13Pip Madeley Guest
Must admit, I thought the announcer before/after the programme was hilarious - was he putting on that voice?
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23rd Jun 2009, 9:50 PM #14Wish I hadn't read that article first though because it's basically just an edited transcript of the programme.
The announcer did have a bit of a fruity voice, he must be in competition with Mark Gatiss. (Hurrah for the GIF Animation Engine btw Pip!)
I was impressed they got Achellios and everyone talking about it. Sounds like Mark's struck up a bit of a friendship with good old Terrance Dicks too! The show was very witty and nostalgic, plus being a great advert for the new talking books range.
Although I thought Hinchcliffe's reading was pretty awful.Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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23rd Jun 2009, 9:53 PM #15Although I thought Hinchcliffe's reading was pretty awful.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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23rd Jun 2009, 10:44 PM #16Captain Tancredi Guest
I suppose that in his defence, everybody you heard reading apart from Hinchcliffe was a professional actor, although in all honesty I couldn't initially tell when he'd gone from talking about the book to reading from it.
Apart from being a convenient plug for the audiobook range, it more or less did what a 30-minute Radio 4 documentary should do- summed up its subject matter neatly and informatively with plenty of enthusiasm from the presenter. Books that boys will read without prompting are still one of the holy grails of publishing so the people who wrote them can justifiably be pleased with the recognition.
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23rd Jun 2009, 10:49 PM #17
It was jolly enough, and certainly made me smile - I particularly liked the way Anneke Wills referred to people destroying Patrick Troughton's work in the same way one might refer to burning Shakespeare's original manuscripts!
Oh and David Troughton's reading of the Doctor was just so eerily like his dad wasn't it. Even if his Jamie sounded more like Anton Rodgers as Alec Calendar, rather than Frazer Hines...
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24th Jun 2009, 8:59 AM #18Pip Madeley Guest
By the way, this is a good listen, broadcast last night:
Matthew Sweet talks to Russell T Davies
Matthew Sweet talks to Russell T Davies, the television writer and producer credited with making family television cool again by reinvigorating Doctor Who for the 21st century. As he leaves British television for a career in Hollywood, he tells Matthew that Susan Boyle from Britain's Got Talent has proved that the best stories are now coming out of reality TV and that scriptwriters must rise to the challenge.
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26th Jun 2009, 5:34 PM #19
As someone who has never been in awe of Russell T Davies and his new golden age, I can't take away the obvious knowledge and enthusiasm the man has for the 'whole' show. In his DWM Production Notes he talks about the novels and the audios with a lot of respect and kindness, and it's good to see the Target's getting some of that here.
I thought it was a lovely little documentary, and it took me back to my childhood too, when the Target's were the only record of past glories. I'm sure I'm not the only one who found that the television version fell short of greatness after reading one of the novels first. Brain of Morbius, Face of Evil and Planet of Evil were all cracking stories that never felt the same on TV. Morbius in particular disappointed me with it's studiobound setting, when I'd envisioned creepy night filming in windswept forests, and old stone buildings containing sisterhoods and brains of long dead Time Lords!
It's making me want to get some of the audiobooks I'd put on the back burners, in particular The Abominable Snowmen. David Troughton sounds brilliant on it. As I'm a bit strapped for cash at the moment I might have to have a run through of some of the others I already own - The Crusade, The Myth Makers, Brain of Morbius, The Green Death and The Daleks I think.'In search of some rest, in search of a break
From a life of tests, where something's always at stake
Where something's always so far...'
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