Audiobook Reviews
Doctor Who: The First Doctor Unbound: Return To Marinus – Written by Jonathan Morris & Starring David Bradley, Claudia Grant, Jamie Glover & Jemma Powell (Big Finish)
We, dear readers, are Doctor Who fans. That means we can love the same programme, and then relentlessly squabble among ourselves for endless hours over the use and placement of a single word. In which…
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Return To Neverbury – Written by Chris Lynch & Read by Terry Cooper (Audiobook)
It’s no secret that when Chris Lynch’s first Neverbury book, Welcome To Neverbury, was published, we fell at least a little in love with it here at Mass Movement. In fact, it became my book…
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Doctor Who: The Vampire Plants & Other Stories -Written by Paul Magrs & Read by Jon Culshaw, Katy Manning & Matthew Waterhouse (BBC Audio)
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…
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Doctor Who: The Pescatons – Written by Victor Pemberton & Read by Jon Culshaw (BBC Audio)
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…
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Doctor Who: Star Flight – Written by Paul Hayes & Read by Christopher Naylor (BBC Audio)
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…
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Doctor Who: The Mind Trap – Written by John Peel & Read by David Troughton (BBC Audio)
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…
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Red Dwarf: Series V-VIII – Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor & Starring Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewyllyn, Norman Lovett, Hatty Hayridge, Chloe Annett (BBC Audio)
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…
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Doctor Who: Mission To Magnus – Written by Philip Martin & Read by Nicola Bryant (BBC Audio)
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…
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Who Corner To Corner: Doctor Who – The Princess and the Rebel: Part One – Written by Paul Laville & Starring: Katie Haynes, Isabelle Hinchcliffe, Paul Laville & Freya Laville (Audio Drama)
We love fan audio drama here at Mass Movement. We also love to reach out across the vortex to other podcasts and, to coin a phrase, lend them our lugholes. What can we tell you…
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Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor: The Return of the Doctor – Written by Rory Thomas-Howes & Starring Jodie Whittaker & Mandip Gill (Big Finish)
There’s a certain similarity in most of the reviews of The Return of the Doctor, the second story in the new Thirteenth Doctor audio series from Big Finish. Generally, you’ll read that while the first…
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Doctor Who: Firefall – Written by Beth Axford & Read by Michele Assante (BBC Audio)
The two latest Doctor Who short trip audiobooks from BBC Audio are a neat pair, each showing a whole “type” of Doctor Who adventuring. Counterstrike, by Una McCormack, pitted the Doctor and Belinda against an…
