Audiobook Reviews
Doctor Who: The Time of Angels – Written by Jenny T Colgan & Read by Maureen O’Brien (BBC Audio)
Steven Moffat’s The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone was among some of the first filming Matt Smith did during his time as the Eleventh Doctor. Looking back at the story today, you’d never tell as…
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Doctor Who And The Stones of Blood – Written by Terrance Dicks & Read by Geoffrey Beevers (With John Leeson) (BBC Audio)
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…
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Doctor Who: The Satan Pit – Written by Matt Jones & Read by Claire Rushbrook, Ronny Jhutti, Silas Carson, & Maureen O’Brien (BBC Audio)
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…
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Doctor Who: Circle of Memory – Written by Bob Ayres & Read by Dan Starkey (BBC Audio)
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….
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Doctor Who: Aliens of London – Written by Joseph Lidster & Read by Camille Coduri (BBC Audio)
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…
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Doctor Who: Caught in the Web & Other Stories Written by Various & Read by Maureen O’Brien, David Troughton, Jon Culshaw, Geoffrey Beevers, David Banks, and Nicola Bryant (BBC Audio)
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…
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Torchwood: Everyone’s Dead On Floor 3 – Written by James Goss, from an idea by Alfie Shaw Starring Samuel Barnett, Julian Bleach, Aruhan Galieva, Cassius Hackforth, Alistair Toovey (Big Finish)
Everyone’s Dead on Floor 3, the last outing for Torchwood’s cheekiest non-Harkness operative, Norton Folgate (played by Samuel Barnett), feels like what would happen if you put JB Priestley’s An Inspector Calls in a room…
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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…
