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….
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…
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…
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…
Snakedance was the second story in Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor’s tenure to feature a monster known as the Mara. Christopher Bailey wrote both, and in a sense, they offered something that has become fundamental to…
Early in the Fifth Doctor’s time on screen, one of the big questions faced by actor Peter Davison was how to differentiate his incarnation from the massive, infectious, striding performance of his predecessor, the longest-running…
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.
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…
