Who Should Read...and Why?

[Rob McCow]

Very simple thread this one - I'll pick a Target novel and then you nominate someone to read it for a BBC Audio Book, giving an explanation why. Then you nominate another Target novel (or New Adventure if you want to kill the thread!) for the next person!

So to start off I'll ask -

Who should read Day of The Daleks - and why?

[WhiteCrowNZ]

I am so tempted to say Tony Blair - because he could add little footnotes on how trying to blow people up never really solves any of the world's problems.

However instinctively I'd go for Aubrey Woods who played the Controller in the show, and I remember as the sweet seller in the original Willy Wonka. He just has a wonderful voice, and would kind of almost give the tale the slant of being told from a future vantage point.

Anyway next ...

Who should read Doctor Who and the Underworld?

[Andrew Curnow]

Is it too obvious to say, Tom Baker? He'd probably make a pretty naff story sound absolutely epic!

Who should read... The Curse of Fenric?

[Pip Madeley]

Nicholas Parsons, obviously! The man is made for the job

Who should read... The Time Monster?

[Jon Masters]

Nick Courtney - its a Brig story really.

What about the missing Revalation of the Daleks ?

[Rob McCow]

If some poor sap were to novelize it, then I think that William Gaunt would be the best person to read it. If not, then Terry Molloy would be a good choice. He could do some of the Dalek voices too!

Who should read Fury From The Deep?

[SiHart]

Deborah Watling. It'd be a laugh a minute!

Who should read The Rescue?

Si xx

[Si Hunt]

I'd love to see Mary MacMillan reading "The Underwater Menace". It would be a 10 disc affair.

Si.

[shada pavlova]

I suppose Maureen O'Brien should do The Rescue. It's arguably only story in which Vicki is actually useful to the plot .

Who should grapple with The Celestial Toymaker?

[Andrew Curnow]

Eddie Izzard. Most of the actual cast is dead, apart from Steven & Dodo, and the book is pretty dull, so it would definitely need a lift of some sort.

But a more important question is surely... who should read "The Twin Dilemma!?

[stuartdg]

Dame Edna Everage


Who should read Doctor Who And Timelash?

[Jon Masters]

It has to be Paul Darrow - but in the style of Lawrence Olivier doing King Lear.

I say, I said I say boy... who's gonna read that pesky book The Gunfighters ?

[Andrew Curnow]

Larry Hagman. You want somebody who's OTT and who can carry off a ten-gallon hat, then JR's the man!

Who would dare to read... The Power of the Daleks?!

[Terry Leptil]

Anneke Wills with Nick Briggs doing the Dalek voices like he did with the Cybermen for... The Cybermen (also read by Wills).

I'd like to hear John Challis read The Seeds of Doom. His normal voice (without the Boycie twang) would suit it.

Who would you have liked to have read City of Death?

[shada pavlova]

Got to be Tom Chadbon.

Hmm...The War Games?

[Rob McCow]

Sadly James Bree is no longer with us, but Philip Madoc would do an admirable job on it. I'd love to hear him re-create some of the most evil lines of the War Lord.

Who could possibly read the audio book of Terminus?

[SiHart]

Liza Goodard and Lionel Blair.

If they did a talking book of Vengeance on Varos, who would you like to read it to you?

Si xx

[shada pavlova]

Got to be Nabil Shaban. Nobody else can do the laugh.

How about...Carnival of Monsters?

[Andrew Curnow]

After some thought, clearly none of us want to rush into these things, and considering the rather sobering fact that many of the main cast are no longer with us... I'm going to suggest whoever the guy was that played Mr Decker in Torchwood: Children of Earth. Not only does he have a good voice, but from the instant he appeared on screen he reminded me (admittedly, I've now concluded that it's only me and that I may well be mad, but anyway) of Robert Holmes, without whom...

But now, get the casting agents on the phone, we need to decide who should read Time and the Rani!!