Let’s Do The Time Warp Again

This post has nothing to do with the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Do you know the BBC Radio show Twenty Minutes?

Do you know the British author Justina Robson, much-mentioned on this blog, and much admired by me? (That’s her picture up there.)

Do you know Doctor Who? Did you know I’m a big old Doctor Who geekI’m a Baker and Davison guy at heart, but I really like Tennant–although I wish he was getting better scripts.?

All of these questions, believe it or not, come together in one thing: a recent Twenty Minutes broadcastThis may be stretching things a bit, since the piece was actually part of the intermission in the Doctor Who Prom, but if the BBC site says Twenty Minutes, who am I to argue?, of a piece written and performed by Robson, about her love for The Doctor. It’s entitled “Let’s Do The Time Warp Again”, and here’s how the BBC describes it:

Doctor Who has remained a fixed but ever-changing point in the British imagination since 1963. Science fiction writer Justina Robson explores the many meanings of the Time Lord, asking what his trips through time and space tell us about our own country’s dreams and nightmares.

Until recently you could have listened to it on the BBC’s iPlayer, but apparently that window has closed. I wonder where people would ever find a version to listen to now? Hmmm?

It’s fun to listen to, at least it is if you’re a Who fan, or a Robson fan–which makes it twice as fun for me. That Robson has a great voice is a bonus.

I especially liked the moments when Robson talks about how the modern audience can really appreciate a mixture of tropes–that rang some bells with Robson’s Quantum Gravity books for sure. I also liked the Bible thing.

Justina Robson on Twenty Minutes 2008.07.28