I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still

watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,

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From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.

I'm Tricia Bobita.

And I am Greta Johnson.

And today we are talking with actress Alex Kingston.

She played Dr. Corday on ER and also River Song on Doctor Who.

We'll talk with her about what she's obsessed with later on in the show.

But first, let's just take a minute to realize how exciting it is, Trisha, that you get to talk to someone who's in Doctor Who.

I'm still very excited about it. This interview happened, and I'm still excited about it because Doctor Who is my favorite show.

And River Song, the character played by Alex Kingston, is kind of my favorite character.

How could you go?

I'm an archaeologist from the future.

I dug you up.

So Doctor Who is a super popular show around the world.

It's also extremely complicated.

So Trisha, we thought what we would do is have you explain to the people what Doctor Who is all about.

Okay.

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