Barnes Common Comes To Audio
Leaving aside that TV show thingie, the one Doctor Who release I’m looking forward to this year is the MP3-CD release of David Whitaker’s 1964 Classic Doctor Who In An Exciting Adventure With The Daleks read by William Russell. I loved Whitaker’s prose retelling of Serial B as a 14 year-old reading my first Doctor Who book, and I still think this is one of the all-time great Doctor Who novels. To actually hear Ian Chesterton narrating it will be an absolute delight. Plus the MP3 version will include Arnold Schwartzmann’s interior illustrations as well!
The Official BBC Website has just put up an extract. (Scroll to the bottom—noting the Alistair Pearson comment on the way—to hear it) It’s an older Ian Chesterton narrating than I envisaged as a fourteen year old, but it’s still very, very, exciting.
Posted by Graeme on Wednesday, March 2 at 2:49 pm
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The first Doctor Who book I bought and probably the best of them all. It was such an obvious thing to do and yet I didn’t think it would ever happen. To me this was the next most exciting thing ever in Doctor Who besides the actual return of the series now and the movie in 1996.
Posted by Ryan on 03/03 at 12:59 AM
Best piece of merchandise this year!
Posted by Mike on 03/04 at 10:25 PM
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