Audiobook Reviews
Doctor Who The Novel Adaptations: Goth Opera – Written by Paul Cornell, Adapted by Lizbeth Myles & Starring Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding, Micah Balfour & Natalie Gumede (Big Finish)
The Novel Adaptations range at Big Finish has always had a chequered history. Listeners with a long history of connection to the novels that in a very real sense kept Doctor Who alive in dark…
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Doctor Who: Dark Contract – Written by Will Hadcroft & Read by Matthew Waterhouse (BBC Audio)
Early in the Fifth Doctor’s time on screen, one of the big questions faced by actor Peter Davison was how to differentiate his incarnation from the massive, infectious, striding performance of his predecessor, the longest-running…
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Torchwood: Art Decadence – Written by Ash Darby & Starring: Simon Kane & Wilf Scolding (Big Finish)
Really terrific, top-tier villains in Doctor Who are phenomenally hard to come by. We’re sometimes lulled into forgetting that by just how many times the show has bottled a moment of intellectual or philosophical lightning…
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Doctor Who: Rogue – Written by Kate Herron & Briony Redman & Read by Dan Starkey (BBC Audio)
Rogue on TV was a peculiar episode of Doctor Who, with three general categories of reaction. On the one hand, there were the disappointing people who took umbrage at the kiss between bounty hunter Rogue…
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Doctor Who: 73 Yards – Written by Scott Handcock & Read by Susan Twist (BBC Audio)
73 Yards was a deeply peculiar Doctor Who story on-screen. In its main storyline, it was an excellent riff on Russell T Davies’ epic Years and Years with an effective folk horror twist. But in…
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Doctor Who: Space Babies – Written by Alison Rumfitt & Read by Clare Corbett BBC Audio)
Space Babies has been regarded by the Doctor Who fandom as everything from an oddish start for a Doctor’s first proper season to an experiment in tech-syncing of voice to mouth movement that doesn’t quite ever pull off its big trick, to a bit of an exercise in sloganeering space silliness – depending on which rabbit holes of internet fandom you fall down.
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Doctor Who – Caged – Written by Una McCormack & Read by Bonnie Langford (BBC Audio)
As the Fifteenth Doctor would probably say, “Oh, YES, honey!” The previous Fifth Doctor novel and audiobook, Ruby Red, was gorgeously written by Georgia Cook, and read with an unfortunate beginner’s monotone by Millie Gibson,…
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Doctor Who: Ruby Red – Written by Georgia Cook & Read by Millie Gibson (BBC Audio/BBC Books)
Most of the time with audiobooks of Doctor Who novels, the text and the reading work together as one, adding drama and emotion to the work as it exists on the page. And then, just…
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Doctor Who: River of Death – Written by John Peel & Read by Nicola Bryant (BBC Audio)
John Peel is a name well-known and massively respected by fans of Doctor Who books. The reasons could fill a review by themselves, but they mainly boil down to two central points. Number 1: John…
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Doctor Who: Escape The Daleks! – Written by Steve Lyons & Read by Katy Manning (BBC Audio)
It’s probably fair to say that you never quite know what you’re going to get from the BBC Audio range in terms of Doctor Who. After all, in a sense, that’s a reflection of the…
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Doctor Who: The Demons Within – Written by Gary Russell & Read by David Banks (BBC Audiobooks)
Probably one of the more underrated pairings in the New Who era, the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones were marked on screen by complex emotional turmoil – she loved him, body and soul, he was…
