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Jane Goddard - Nikki Savage - the first Cyber-lady.

In at the beginning
  What's your earliest memory of Doctor Who, but describing it in words that do not use the phrase 'behind the sofa'?

My memories of Doctor Who actually go back quite a long way, because believe it or not I remember it when it very first started. I had just gone through Beatle-mania and then Doctor Who arrived on screen. I was quite into sci fi as a kid and I remember racing off to school and saying to all my friends "Hey have you seen this great new series? It’s wonderful." For about two years I was addicted to it, I loved it, my mother and I watched it faithfully. And then I grew up.

Sounds scary
  Do you think Doctor Who is more scary in audio or on TV?

Oh no, I think it’s much scarier on audio because your imagination always supplies the really horrific bits.

I don’t actually remember it [being scary]. I’ve heard other people saying "Oh I was behind the settee I was so scared", but I have never been easily scared. I love gore and all the rest of it and I think I remember the sets wobbling a bit and being quite amused by that. I was into acting anyway when I was a kid so I sort of knew it wasn’t real. So no, I was never actually really scared by the TV sereis.

But with the audios, I find them much creepier actually, much more horrific, because you can use your imagination, so you can create sets that are a million times better than anybody else’s.

Ms Cyberworld 2002
  You’ve got the possibly dubious honour of being the world’s first Cyberlady. How did you find that?

It’s a bit scary really. There are a lot of people around who seem to know a lot more about Doctor Who than I do, because as I say I was really into it for the first couple of years and after that I really lost track of it.

I had to have a potted history last night from my other half on the subject of who the Cybermen were and what they’re like and how they’ve change. But then having said that, as I’m a whole new Cyberlady and there’s never been one before I suppose I can actually create my own thing, which is what I’ve been doing.

[Of course], the effects are done for you, [so] you don’t have to worry too much vocally because of the wonderful effects that they put on it. We can hear [it] down the headphones which is really great.

Character one
  Before you turned into a cyberlady you played another character. Can you tell us a little bit about her?

She’s was an archaeologist. She has a rather nice relationship with her two henchmen, who are assisting her on this particular site, trying to find out what this particular thing is. There’s lots of jokes and banter, but it doesn’t last very long because she’s the first one to go. I shouldn’t say that, because I’m giving away the plot.

I’d rather exist, frankly
  Time travel is a big part of Real Time. If you personally had the chance to nip back in time and change something, what would it be?

No, no, no. I’ve read much, much too much science fiction to want to go back and change anything because I might well find that if I changed it I didn’t exist.

If I change something in the past I might not exist now, [with] the butterfly effect, and I think I’d rather exist now. I’m very much a take it or leave it [sort of person].

There’s lots of things we’d all like to change but if you change one tiny little thing what’s going to happen to everything else? Nothing will be the same so no, sorry.

Strength of ten women
  The Cybermen of course, have the strength of ten men. If you had ten men at your disposal how would you use them?

Oh, I think I could probably think of something for them to do. Do I get the strength of ten women though? This is something I should have asked the director, shouldn’t I? Ten women would not equal ten men, would they really?