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Radio 4. My castaway this week is David Tenant. His brilliance in portraying Dr.

Who has defined the time lord for a generation of children and indeed redefined it for parents who up until he took

over had thought the only real Doctor who was in possession of a mop of curls and a long strippy

scarf. Rayfish, dynamic, solitary and daring. His Saturday evening intergalactic

adventures have secured BBC 1 blockbusting figures and the actor himself, the

sort of household name status, normally reserved for Premiership footballers and

rock stars.

Yet despite being voted the best Doctor Who of all time, he says,

I always have that Presbyterian voice in my head saying could do better but he admits I quite like that

You don't give interviews very often. I don't think David Tenant

I guess I do a lot of interviews but I tend to stick to the light-hearted frothy stuff.

I don't do many interviews like this often, no.

Okay, and that is just to try to preserve a part of you that's not the doctor and it's not out there all the time.

I think so, yes.

Shall I leave now?

Sorry.

The walking down the street stuff, I mean I said Premiership footballers and rock

stars it's true isn't that you do inhabit that very particular area of fame do you

walk down the street on your own I certainly do on your own yes yes but I often with a hat and keeping moving right

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