Published on 12, July, 2020
I only ask because one of my fave singers Dua Lipa has released her new song as a cassette single and as she is one of my fave singers and one of my special interests I like to own everything Dua Lipa!
I don't have anything to play a casette though. But I still want to buy it but I want to use it as well. My mum said cassette isn't worth buying and my dad said it is.
I'm torn.
Looks cool though right?
I have a nostalgic fondness for cassettes. I'm doing the 'great pilgrimage' right now - all Doctor Who eps from 1963 to now in order - and as some of the early episodes survive only as off-air audio recordings I was doing those ones as CDs until I got to one story where I'd bought it so long ago it was in cassette form only. One fairly cheap Amazon purchase later, and I was happily reacquainting myself with the hiss and clunk of the format, and the joy of spooling back to re-listen to bits, and the strange pleasure of ejecting to change sides. All so pleasingly analogue, and somehow much more soothing... if a little less pristine in sound quality.
I have some of the Doctor Who audiobooks. Big Finish is such an amazing thing to have started. I love that the original actors star in some of the audiobooks as well!
It would be interesting to see what the original creator thought if she could see it now? I bet it would blow her mind (in a good way!)
I find it easier listening to books rather than reading them. I struggle with reading and it makes me anxious weirdly.
Do you have a fav Doctor Who audiobook?
I'm looking forward to seeing what the first new series will be like this year with the new Doctor and Ruby.
Sydney Newman and Verity Lambert ( the more or less creators of Doctor Who) passed away aged 80 in 1997 and 71 in 2007 respectively.
So they would have been aware of how far the series had come.
I like to think they were rather pleased with how far their creation has come.