Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep
Audio: Audiobooks: BBC: Doctor Who Written by Terrance Dicks, and read by Janet Fielding The Silurians and the Sea Devils, originally created by Malcolm Hulke for a pair of Jon Pertwee Doctor Who stories in…
Audiobook Reviews
Doctor Who and the Planet of Evil
Audio: Audiobook: BBC: Doctor Who. Written by Terrance Dicks, and read by Tim Treloar. The nature of Doctor Who is that some stories are constructed to be classics, and others are, with the best will…
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Doctor Who: The Time Monster – Written by Terrance Dicks & Read by John Culshaw (BBC Audio)
The Time Monster, as it appeared on-screen, is a story which embodies both the ambition of early 1970s, UNIT-based Doctor Who, and the failure of that ambition to be adequately supported either by the effects…
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Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death
Audio: Audiobook: BBC Written by: Terrance Dicks Read by: Michael Troughton The Seeds of Death in at its heart an interesting story that cautions against the adoption of flashy new technologies that stand on the…
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Doctor Who: The Romans (BBC Audio)
Written by: Donald Cotton Read by: Dan Starkey, Tim Treloar, Jamie Glover, Jon Culshaw, Clare Corbett, Maureen O’Brien, Louise Jameson. Donald Cotton was in no sense your average Doctor Who script writer. He was, if…
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Doctor Who: The Code of Flesh
Written by: Andrew Lane Read by: Dan Starkey Andrew Lane, like other writers including Paul Magrs, has had the opportunity, story by story, to create a little pocket universe of his own. While Magrs was…
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Audio: BBC: Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eden
Written by: Terrance Dicks Read by: Dan Starkey There are, across almost sixty years, a vast variety of “types” of Doctor Who story. There are the ones where you need more information to make the…
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Elephant In The Room, Series 1 and 2
Audio: BBC: Comedy Hosted by: Sarah Millican Elephant In The Room is proof, if proof were needed, that there’s no concept so odd that it can’t be turned into a BBC comedy panel show. Where…
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Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus audiobook
Audio: BBC: Doctor Who Written by: Philip Hinchcliffe Read by: Jamie Glover Having scored a series-saving hit on his first try with the BBC’s new experimental time-travel ‘children’s show’ in 1963, writer Terry Nation (creator…
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Audio: Comedy: BBC – Listomania
Hosted by Susan Calman There must, presumably, be a whiteboard in the back room planning hub of BBC Radio comedy panel shows that declares “There is no such thing as a stupid idea.” This is…
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Audio: BBC: Doctor Who and the Android Invasion
Written by Terrance Dicks. Read by Geoffrey Beevers. There are Doctor Who stories that benefit from being novelized entirely straight, simply transferring the on-screen antics to the page and letting the reader (or listener) revel…
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Doctor Who: Battlefield – Written by Marc Platt & Read by Toby Longworth (BBC Audio)
Here’s the first thing to understand about Battlefield: it was now highly-successful novelist Ben Aaronovitch’s second televised episode of Doctor Who. His first, Remembrance of the Daleks, was simply extraordinary, opening Doctor Who’s 25th season…
