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…
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…
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.
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
There were seldom occasions in Classic Doctor Who when a companion was so thoroughly front and centre of the storytelling as Janet Fielding’s Tegan Jovanka was in Kinda, originally written for the screen by Christopher…
The Horns of Nimon, bless it, was never a great Doctor Who story. On the one hand, it was a fairly lazy piece of construction by Anthony Read, borrowing hugely from Greek myth (as the…
The third of the run of Torchwood stories to catch us up with the alumni of The Impossible Planet, Torchwood: Oracle is the one that feels most closely linked to the original story. Not that…
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…
