Audiobook Reviews
Torchwood: Oodunnit – Written by James Goss & Starring: Shaun Parkes, Amanda Shodeko & Silas Carson (Big Finish)
In the second instalment of the three-story catch-up with the characters from The Impossible Planet, James Goss casts Zachary Cross Flane (Shaun Parkes) as industrial detective on a garbage reclamation planet. A garbage reclamation planet…
Torchwood: Odyssey – Written by Patrick O’Connor & Starring Claire Rushbrook & Silas Carson (Big Finish)
It was all the way back in 2006, as part of David Tennant’s first series as the Doctor and only the second year of the renewed show, that we first encountered something called The Torchwood…
Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen – Written by Eric Saward & Read by David Banks (BBC Books)
Attack of the Cybermen is a Doctor Who story that has traditionally been characterized as “troubled.” The first adventure for the explosive Sixth Doctor after his tacked-on regeneration story (in which he throttled his companion,…
The Waters of Mars – Audiobook
Written by Phil Ford. Read by Maureen O’Brien. The Waters of Mars is one of the best complete stories in the history of “New” Doctor Who. One of the special stories on the road to…
Planet of the Ood audiobook
Written by Keith Temple Read by Silas Carson Planet of the Ood on TV was a Doctor Who story that wore its social conscience firmly on its sleeve, delivered intensely arresting visuals, showed the wonder…
Welcome to Neverbury
Written by Chris Lynch Read by Terry Cooper It would be a big mistake to describe the love of dark and supernatural stories beneath the surface of ordinary environments as any kind of trend. MR…
Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
Written by Kevin Clarke Read by David Banks Silver Nemesis, even when it was broadcast, was… a bit odd. As a story, it threw together elements like a Fourth Reich bunch of wannabe-Fuhrers, a couple…
Doctor Who: The Ark
Written by John Lucarotti, adapted by Jonathan Morris Starring Tom Baker, Sadie Miller, Christopher Naylor, Terry Molloy In Big Finish’s brief run of re-adaptations of some of the scripts from Season 12 of Classic era…
Daleks! Genesis of Terror
Written by: Terry Nation Starring: Nicholas Briggs, Sadie Miller, Philip Hinchcliffe, Samira Ahmed Big Finish has always had a penchant for delivering lost Doctor Who stories to its audience, and often, they’ve worked very well,…
Audio: BBC: The Absolutely Radio Show
Released by BBC Audio Written and performed by Pete Balkie, Morwenna Banks, Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy, and John Sparkes Absolutely is a criminally undersung comedy collective from the late 1980s. Dominating Channel 4’s comedy output…
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…