The Doctor...and how he nearly didn't happen.
We talked about this in the programme. Read more about the story here and have a closer look at the Doctor Who archive here. And this is Dr Who Online - we heard from its editor Sebastian J. Brook.
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Lady Sue: Very droll ;o)
I still reckon Eddie's the man to replace David T.
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Big Sis: David T? Who he?
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Very good interview - have also checked out the Doctor Who Online website which is amazing. Great stuff!
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I remember the first episode, as if it were yesterday. Come to think of it, it was, wasn't it..? No, couldn't be because it was a Saturday early evening broadcast.
Anyway, the first episode was unbelievably good. And, I do mean that. Ground-breaking stuff!
So, the following Saturday, the first episode was repeated, to be followed by episode two. A "first" I think for the BBC and quite right too...
A superb concept, brilliantly interpreted by everyone and everything; including the series signature tune!
BBC Television at it's finest!
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Lady Sue (3) - David Tenant, the current Dr Who.
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Mmm -
I see the core of the Radio 4 listeners always tend to baulk at the idea of anything televisual being discussed.
Now we know that on ipm Chris and George don't have televisions as they preumably catch up with the BBC iplayer and save paying the license fee.
And it would go without saying that our titled listeners such as Lady Sue will sit around the Valve wireless, no doubt tuning in to the long wave transmitter, or on mw in London.
But I find it fascinating - especially from past blog entries - that the average Radio 4 listeners are often so dismissive in what the 'Tabloids' and mainstream population seem to want to discuss.
The Diana / Mohamed Al-Fayd inquest was another example of this phenomenon recently. The Blog full of complaints from non interested people.
Is this class related?
I've noticed the Jeremy Vine listeners on Radio two seem to thrive on it all!
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jonnie @ 7, I don't have a television, and my reasons aren't particularly class-related. It's more to do with having other things to do, and not wanting to have to give full attention to something I must look at and that requires me to be in one place. I dislike being tied to the cone-of-vision from a screen all the time.
A radio can be on in say the kitchen as I cook, and I can listen at the same time as doing something else that requires my eyes (as it might be chopping carrots).
A radio can be on in the car without making me a danger to everyone on the road by requiring me to look at it.
A radio can be on while I am gardening, or painting, or eating, or any one of dozens of other activities that need me to have the use of my eyes.
The other reason I don't bother to have one is that I find TV essentially unsatisfying.
Most TV entertainment simply doesn't entertain me -- in the same way that I turn off the radio for many of the 'comedy' programmes in the 6.30 slot in the evenings, I would turn off most of the 'comedy' on TV.
The factual/investigative programmes generally seem aimed at an audience that knows nothing whatever about the subject, whatever it may be: they have to be because they wouldn't otherwise attract the ignorant, but after half an hour of watching I find that I now have as much on the subject as I would have got from, say, a three-page article in a colour-supplement, and it feels like pap. All too often, too, if the subject is one about which I do know a little, I see that at least one plain simple fact has been given wrong, or the slant that has been chosen for the presentation is biased, or something of the sort.
Nature programmes are pleasant, but giving all that space to a TV just for those seems a waste of space in the living-room, time spent on locating them and money on the licence-fee. I have friends I can visit if I want to watch something, after all!
On the other point, people have always wanted to discuss things I found boring! Football and fashion and pop music when I was at school, and then the latest thing in cars and hi-fi and computers and whatever was the 'latest'.... I found DiPoW boring when she was alive, and even more boring after she had died, and I really don't care whose hamster Elvis ate.
Does that give some explanation? If I am actually interested in some subject, I'd rather read a book about it, simply: I can take that with me on the bus or into the garden or up to bed, and pick it up when I want to, put it down when I have something else to do, and don't have to sit in the same place in thrall to it.
I don't know whether I am the 'Chris' you have down as watching things on iplayer to save the licence-fee, but I promise you that I don't! I don't feel the need. I think I last actually watched a television programme some time in, um, 2004-ish, if 'Have I Got News For You' was on then...
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Chris,
I think I've been proved wrong anyway - as Eddie has just pointed out on the Glassbox for Wednesday.
It seems that most of the listeners are perfectly happy with the reporting of the John Seargeant story. Another blogger has also noted that PM covers a wide variety of stories - so the odd 5 minutes on 'strictly come' should hardly be an issue.
I was just a little provoked by Lady-Sue's 'tongue in cheek' comments above.
Oh and Chris - I was referring to Chris Vallance from iPM who doesn't have a telly.
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Managed to catch this on my way into Manchester yesterday (after visiting 2 Froggers!) on a rainy and dark A34. To think the Tardis nearly never was!
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jonnie @ 9, fair enough. I'll admit to having been amused by the John Sergeant story, having picked up from the reporting here enough to understand roughly what it was about. :-)
I'll also admit to deliberately winding up the square-eyed occasionally by listening to them discussing some female television personality until I am completely bored, and then asking 'I'm sorry, who is he again?' This is roughly equivalent to lighting the blue touch-paper and standing well clear.
Not unakin to being 'unable' to understand the difference between Windows, Mac and Linux if it has been being the subject of discussion for more than an hour in a pub, really.
My apologies to Chris Vallance... I thought Chris and George must be people on the Blog I hadn't noticed being I-don't-have-a-telly.
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