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Heavy going for the listener This is a wonderful set, beautifully presented, and must have seemed like a good idea at the time. BBC Audiobooks is to be congratulated for issuing these readings of three very important novelizations. Clearly completists will want to have this collection, but I wonder how often they will actually listen to it all the way through.William Russell, a great actor and a pivotal figure in Doctor Who’s early history, would seem to be the obvious choice as reader, but in fairness I feel it would have been better to get someone with an easier reading voice. Mr Russell, while reading well and expressively, simply sounds too old and croaky for the job. Without intending to be personal, there is a suspicion that, in between sentences and phrases, he was possibly rasping and gasping a fair bit and the digital rendering has excised this natural breathiness to produce an unnatural silence in the gaps. Personally, I found this very distracting and it made the job of concentrating on the actual story rather difficult.On the other hand, if you can pick up a bargain-priced copy, you really get a lot of audio for your money, but no way is this set worth the original 65 quid! Buy it if you’re a Doctor Who obsessive, but don’t expect too much. The audio versions of the regular TV episodes are much more listener friendly.
Heavy going for the listener This is a wonderful set, beautifully presented, and must have seemed like a good idea at the time. BBC Audiobooks is to be congratulated for issuing these readings of three very important novelizations. Clearly completists will want to have this collection, but I wonder how often they will actually listen to it all the way through.William Russell, a great actor and a pivotal figure in Doctor Who’s early history, would seem to be the obvious choice as reader, but in fairness I feel it would have been better to get someone with an easier reading voice. Mr Russell, while reading well and expressively, simply sounds too old and croaky for the job. Without intending to be personal, there is a suspicion that, in between sentences and phrases, he was possibly rasping and gasping a fair bit and the digital rendering has excised this natural breathiness to produce an unnatural silence in the gaps. Personally, I found this very distracting and it made the job of concentrating on the actual story rather difficult.On the other hand, if you can pick up a bargain-priced copy, you really get a lot of audio for your money, but no way is this set worth the original 65 quid! Buy it if you’re a Doctor Who obsessive, but don’t expect too much. The audio versions of the regular TV episodes are much more listener friendly.