Showing posts with label David Tennant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Tennant. Show all posts

22 August 2008

I'm Really Not Obsessed with Doctor Who

It might seem like I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about Doctor Who, but it just isn't so. But having said that, I did just hear a preview of an audiobook that kind of blew my mind.

Who knew? It seems that these audiobook-exclusive stories done by the Beeb are well popular in the UK. Sometimes they get other cast members to narrate, like Freema Agyeman, but in a recent one called Doctor Who: Pest Control, the reader is Doctor number 10 himself, David Tennant.

The really amazing thing is, if you like language as much as I do, that Tennant does all the characters (after the fashion of these British audiobooks) and each one is in a different British accent. The narration is in his voice, which is Scottish. And of course, he does the Doctor himself in his semi-posh accent. And he does a cracking job imitating Donna Noble. Throw in some Irishmen and a Northern accent or two and you've got an encyclopedia of speech patterns.

It'll be hard to find this recording at your local Barnes & Noble, but you can download it from iTunes.

07 August 2008

Random News


Nipping in to bring you three "titbits":



Ronaldo (Christano Ronaldo ... not to be confused with the Brazilian one-named Football star) announced today that he will be staying with Manchester United.









David Tennent (Doctor Who #9) and Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard) are tearing up the boards in Stratford. Their Hamlet (the Doctor has the title role, Jean Luc is Claudius) is receiving excellent notices.















Noel Gallagher made news when he railed against the writers at the Guardian and the Observer: "It really pisses me off ... all these spotty herberts whose mams and dads voted for Margaret Thatcher all those years are now sitting on some moral fucking high chair."





Spotty herberts sitting on a moral high chair? I'll never learn this language.