Another update on the Time Lord Victorious stories that I've been working through, all recently released in an order that will surely build to some kind of climax.

First off, a webcast series called DALEKS! starring Nicholas Briggs as the voice of the Daleks, with Anjli Mohindra and Ayesha Antoine as the Mechanoids. (Anjli Mohindra needs no ( Read more... )

Rather to my surprise, I picked this up at the local bookfair. It is a series of messages between renegade Time Lady Iris Wildthyme, created by Paul Magrs and portrayed in Big Finish audios by Katy Manning, and her toy panda, portrayed by David Benson. The third chapter, in full, is:
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Second paragraph of third chapter: The nation seemed to stand still during the special broadcasts, as the Recovery 7 craft was sent into space to link up with Mars Probe 7. City streets were virtually empty and cinemas complained of a massive drop in attendances. They blamed the Mars Probe crisis - why should people go to the cinema to see ( Read more... )

I first read this way way back in the month that David Tennant took over, December 2005; it was only the third original Who book I had read after New Who began, and the only the second of the Seventh Doctor New Adventures - and I think I had seen precisely one Seventh Doctor TV story all the way through, and didn't much like it. Now, almost nine ( Read more... )

I am months behind on writing up my recent Big Finish listening, but one has to start somewhere. The three Road Trip audios take Bernice Summerfield, played as ever by Lisa Bowerman, to the edge of the universe in a quest for her son; they are fairly separate narratives (indeed, one mild frustration is that plot threads between the three are not ( Read more... )

The third and last of the BBC anthologies of stories featuring the pre-New Who Doctors, published in 2000. I choose my words carefully, as the collection includes several side steps into non-standard continuity - a brief sequel to the Sixth Doctor stage play, The Ultimate Adventure; a story from the Third Doctor's timeline in TV Action magazine; a ( Read more... )

( November Books 17) Time Of Your Life, by Steve Lyons )

I only realised after reading this that I had already heard the excellent audio adaptation which includes Sophie Aldred and Anneke Wills. The original book is very good too, and I think would be reasonably penetrable for someone who hadn't previously followed the Bernice Summerfield stories. Nicely observed emotional politics between and among ( Read more... )

The Fifth Doctor novels have rather a good strike rate for me (the audios even more so). This confirmed the trend: a sequel to the Fourth Doctor's TV story Planet of Evil, with the Morestran empire, centuries later, destroying itself by experimenting both with anti-matter and harnessing the kinetic energy of the planets, at the same time riven by ( Read more... )

In the course of Wii workouts and solo shopping trips I have got through several audio books (and will do more before I am finished). None of these particularly special, the best probably being Mark Michalowski's Shining Darkness.

( August Books 16) The Nemonite Invasion, by David Rodan )