When it comes to UK political sitcoms, there’s no doubt that Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister, by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay, broke enormous swathes of new ground, while remaining at their…
Disclaimer – there are now two versions of The Stones of Blood novelization, and therefore two audiobook versions. One was written by David Fisher, who originally wrote the TV script for the story. Originally released…
Matt Jones has Doctor Who in his DNA. His first work in words was in Doctor Who Magazine, and he went on to write novels in the Virgin New Adventures series during Doctor Who’s hiatus…
Circle of Memory, the latest short trip in the BBC Audio Doctor Who collection, has a definite sense of mood, of time, and of the way Doctor Who was done in the era it evokes….
Aliens of London/World War Three, like many episodes in the first series of New Who back in 2005, was groundbreaking. The first two-part episode of the new show, it doubled down on the potential of…
The latest in the BBC’s run of packaged-up stories from Classic era Doctor Who annuals is a motley collection, but it does one thing that many of its predecessors haven’t done: it includes a story…
Releasing collections of short stories translated from comic-strip and short-form stories in the Doctor Who Annuals of days gone by into audiobook format, read by leading figures from the Doctor Who world, might be considered…
Doctor Who: The Pescatons has come a long way, baby. It began life in 1976, not on TV, but as the first real standalone audio-only Doctor Who adventure. It had just two episodes, was…
Star Flight, the latest BBC Doctor Who audio short trip by Paul Hayes, drips competence and class from every syllable of its hour and six-minute run time. It takes us back more than sixty years…
You know when you start a new John Peel Doctor Who story that you’re in safe hands – which is not as twee a prospect as it might sound. You’re going on an adventure in…
You don’t create a sitcom that can run for more or less two decades, with a decade’s break in between, by sticking to a single formula, a single iteration of the core idea. Series V-VIII…
Mission To Magnus is a historical oddity in Doctor Who terms. It’s a relic of a season of Classic Who that never came to be filmed – the ill-fated original Season 23, which was canned…
