William Russell also narrated some of the Target audiobooks, which I enjoy greatly. Actually, a little admission here, sometimes when I am stressed and need some calm in my life, I like to listen to Russell reading 'Doctor Who and the Zarbi,' a book I loved dearly as a young boy. Listening to it takes me right back to sitting on the sofa in my grandparents' house, reading that book for the first time. Happy memories.

William Russell, you are much missed.

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In recent years, William Russell brought Ian Chesterton to life again in various audio adventures for Big Finish. My favourite of these is 'The Revenants,' an atmospheric story set not on some strange new world in the far-flung future but on Orkney in the 1950s. Highly recommended.

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Although I was in the world when William Russell was appearing in Doctor Who, I was just a baby. Growing up, I only knew Ian Chesterton from the Target novelisations. I didn't get to see him onscreen until the BBC repeated 'An Unearthly Child' as part of its Five Faces of Doctor Who season in 1981.

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