David Tennant as a Narrator: DT Goes A Bit Space-y, Pt. 1 - We Are Astronomers (2009)
If you're a fan of David's, you're used to using all sorts of ways to see and hear him perform. You might turn on the television to watch him in shows like Doctor Who or Good Omens. You might flip on your media player of choice to listen to him do sixty-gagillion voices in Cressida Cowell’s How To Train Your Dragon series of audio books, or you might catch him on the radio doing Chase UK bank or Virgin Media adverts. You could even fire up Just Cause 3 or Call of Duty: The Final Reich to catch him in a video game.
But did you know you could also go visit your local planetarium?
David's work as a narrator is just as rich and wide-ranging as all the other aspects of his acting career. So for today and in the following post, we'll take a look at two of these narrative productions connected by a common thread - space.
Come with me back to 2009. It was the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009), and Edinburgh-based charity Dynamic Earth had received funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council to partner with a number of UK-based organizations - including the Armagh Planetarium, the Centre For Life, INTECH Science Centre & Planetarium, the National Space Centre, Royal Observatory Greenwich, and Spaceport - to create a 25-minute long 360° full-dome show for planetariums and digital dome theatres called We Are Astronomers.
And it got the then-current Time Lord, David Tennant, to narrate it.....
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