The Bill Bryson BBC Radio Collection
Audio: BBC: Bill Bryson Written and read by Bill Bryson Bill Bryson is, for anyone just joining us, one of America’s foremost wits of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He made his name…
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Doctor Who: Beyond The Doctor: Bessie Come Home – Written by Paul Magrs & Read by Stephanie Cole (BBC Audio)
The world of Doctor Who has frequently been mined for Extended Universe stories. Whether they’re stories of the adventures the Doctor never had on screen – which have been the stuff of annuals and comic…
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Doctor Who: The Ashes of Eternity – Written by Niel Bushnell & Read by Adjoa Andoh (BBC Audio)
It knocks you back a step any time you remember that ‘New’ Doctor Who is 17 years old now. For those ‘Classic’ fans keeping score, that’s as far from An Unearthly Child as Tom Baker’s…
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Doctor Who: The Nightmare Realm – Written by Jonathan Morris & Read by Dan Starkey (BBC Audio)
On the surface, there are few less likely partnerships than the Twelfth Doctor – frequently dour, always dry, and usually thinking at right angles to most other people in the room – and Nardole, the…
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Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl
Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl – Written by Terrance Dicks & Read by Louise Jameson – CD / Audible (BBC Audio) You can tell almost immediately that Terrance Dicks probably enjoyed writing…
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Doctor Who and The Armageddon Factor
Written by Terrance Dicks & Read by John Leeson – CD / Download (BBC Audio) The Key to Time season was an early experiment with a series arc in Doctor Who – six stories linked…
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Doctor Who: Scratchman – Written & Read by Tom Baker (BBC Audiobooks)
Scratchman is a very unusual Doctor Who story. It’s been the stuff of legends for decades – a script for a movie version of Doctor Who, written by Fourth Doctor actor Tom Baker and Harry…
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Doctor Who: The Elysian Blade – Written by David Bishop & Read by Frazer Hines (BBC Digital Audio)
Well, this is an odd one. Don’t read that wrongly – odd is frequently good, especially in Doctor Who. Nevertheless, it’s an odd one. On the one hand, there’s a lot about David Bishop’s Elysian…
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Doctor Who: Horrors of War – Written by Justin Richards & Read by Katy Manning – CD / Download (BBC Audio)
There’s no getting around the fact that Horrors of War is a sequel. It’s very much Part Two of an ongoing story, begun in Men of War, a First Doctor story in this new range…
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Doctor Who: Men of War – Written by Justin Richards & Starring Peter Purves – CD / Download (BBC Audio)
Quite why BBC Audio decided to start its new series of one-hour audiobook short Doctor Who adventures with a Fourth Doctor story based on characters from the Nest Cottage Chronicles rather than the TV show…
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Doctor Who and the Robots of Death – Written by Terrance Dicks. Read by Louise Jameson. CD / Download (BBC Audio)
Among Doctor Who fans, Robots of Death is a perennial favourite for a whole host of reasons. The visuals are gorgeous: Robots with beautiful facemasks, quilted jackets, metal hands and waves of swept-back metal hair;…
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Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors – Written by Terrance Dicks. Read by Jon Culshaw & Nicholas Briggs – CD / Download (BBC Audio) In Doctor Who, when you get different incarnations of the Doctor together,…
