JN-T: The Life and Scandalous Times of John Nathan-Turner, by Richard Marson

[nwhyte]

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Comments

[londonkds]

What truly shocked and astonished me in the book was just how appalling an individual Levine revealed himself as, when apparently thinking that he was defending himself.

I thought that the reference to Troughton's death was the one point for me when the book crossed over into pointless and prurient gossip about things that the people involved don't deserve to have dragged up. (If Marson intended me to draw the conclusions about the exact circumstances that the book seems to me to imply.)

[parrot_knight]

I know there were criticisms, some justified, of the book for its poor referencing and lack of rigour when comparing different kinds of testimony, criticisms which Marson met, I think, when writing Drama and Delight. It was still my Doctor Who-related book of 2013. The early chapters are full of tantalising counterfactuals, the largest being what might have been if Martin Lisemore had lived and JN-T had remained his financial right hand on the BBC2 mid-evening classic serials.