Adam Wasson

Adam Weymouth's work has been published widely, including in Granta, The Atlantic, The Observer and the BBC. His first book, Kings of the Yukon, won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, the Lonely Planet Adventure Travel Book of the Year and the Prix Paul-Emile Victor. He has been named by the National Writing Centre as one of ten writers shaping the UK's future.

Adam Weymouth

Adam Wisniewski-Snerg (1937-95) was born on the outskirts of Warsaw. His science fiction writing is largely focused around the consequences of totalitarianism. Although largely unread during his lifetime, after his suicide in 1995 his work began to receive major critical attention. He is now considered to be, along with Stanislaw Lem, one of Poland's greatest science fiction writers.

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Ade Edmondson

Adele Lang

Adele Nozedar is an author and photographer. Previously, she was in a cult indie band, then ran her own indie record label and became A&amp;R Director/General Manager of a major record company. 
 
Her wide-ranging passions are reflected in her books, which include The Hedgerow Handbook (2012), The Signs and Symbols Sourcebook (2011), The Secret Language of Birds (2006), and The Element Encyclopedia of Native Americans (2013).

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Adeline Yen Mah

Adelle Waldman is a freelance writer and book critic. She worked as a reporter at the New Haven Register and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal's website. Her articles also have appeared in The New York Times Book Review,The New Republic,Slate,The Wall Street Journal, and other national publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Adelle Waldman

Aditi Kakade Beaufrand is an Indian illustrator based in France. She likes experimenting with bright, happy colours. She grew up reading fairytales, watching animated films and imagining adventure stories, and her style is an embodiment of her Indian heritage and western culture. She loves animals and taking long walks on the beach, but she is never too far away from a pencil and a paper to draw her perception of the world.

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Aditya Chakrabortty

Adiva Geffen is a bestselling writer and playwright. Her plays have appeared on major stages in Israel, she lectures and leads numerous writing workshops and she is a board member of the Israeli Writers’ Association. 
 
 Geffen started out as a special-education teacher, before serving as the spokesperson for the Habima National Theatre for more than a decade. She founded and subsequently led the Israeli Theatre Award for ten years, and now serves as head of The Gnazim Institute of the Hebrew Writers Association, the largest Hebrew literature archive in the world. 
 
 Born in Haifa, Israel and the mother of three sons, Geffen now lives in Tel Aviv with her partner Aharon Meidan.

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Adnan Sarwar, 35, is a former British soldier who served in the Iraq War.  He has since worked as a military consultant to film and is a writer based in London.  Read more at www.adnansarwar.com / @adnansarwar

Adnan Sarwar

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Loos (1877-1933) was a leading Austro-Hungarian architect, perhaps most famous for the revolutionary 'Loos House' opposite the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, which caused outrage when it was built in 1912, and the wonderful American Bar, also in Vienna. He wrote extensively on architecture and design, working in reaction to the elaborate mass of decoration celebrated by the Vienna Secession movement.

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Adrian Bliss is a creator, writer and performer from London, best known for his comedy sketches which, explore everything from history to natural science to religion. Adrian's work has earned him nearly 20 million followers across social media and has been featured in CNN, The Times and Vogue. Adrian was named one of the New Faces of Comedy at Just For Laughs, and his one-man play Inside Everyone sold out its debut run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival prior to opening.

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Adrian Houston is a tree photographer and passionate conservationist. His work has seen him travel to some of the world's most unexplored and inhospitable terrains, with his powerful photographs subsequently gracing everything from advertising campaigns to magazine covers. In 2021 he published A Portrait of the Tree, a photography book that illustrated how trees connect us all on a universal level. Adrian's work has been exhibited both at The National Gallery and The Royal Academy of Arts. When he is not travelling, he is based at his studio in Soho, central London.

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Adrian J Walker was born in the bush suburbs of Sydney, Australia in the mid '70s. After his father found a camper van in a ditch, he renovated it and moved his family back to the UK, where Adrian was raised. 
 
Ever since he can remember, Adrian has been interested in three things: words, music and technology, and when he graduated from the University of Leeds, he found a career in software. His novel The End of the World Running Club, a post-apocalyptic running fable about hope, love and endurance, was a Simon Mayo Radio 2 book club choice. 
 
He lives in Aberdeen with his wife and two children. To find out more visit: http://www.adrianjwalker.com/

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Paul Magrs

Stephanie Cole reads a brand new story featuring the Doctor's trusty car, Bessie. 
 
 It's been many years since a certain yellow Edwardian roadster was a key member of personnel at UNIT. As the Doctor's personal transport, Bessie was on the spot for many of his Earthbound adventures. Those were the glory days, when Bessie stood side by side with the Doctor, the Brigadier, Captain Yates, and a parade of plucky young assistants. 
 
 Yet Bessie's remarkable life began decades earlier, at the dawn of a new century, and it has continued beyond the UNIT years. Indomitably she lives to tell the tale, and is only too keen to do so. Thankfully her new owner, kind Mr Foreman, has time enough to listen to her story. 
 
 But a serpent lurks in the shadows of the scrapyard. Someone else would like to acquire Bessie - seemingly at any price. After all, she holds a great deal of information about the Doctor... 
 
 Stephanie Cole brings Bessie to life in this intriguing and heartwarming tale from Paul Magrs (The Nest Cottage Adventures, The Winged Coven, The Thing From The Sea). 
 
"Bessie Come Home is a fantastic addition to the extended universe of Doctor Who, and you can't listen to it without it growing a broad, broad, satisfied smile on your face." - Tony Fyler, 'Mass Movement' 
 
 (P) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 
 Reading produced by Chatterbox Audio 
 Sound design by David Roocroft 
 Executive producer: Michael Stevens

Doctor Who: Bessie Come Home

Beyond the Doctor

Terrance Dicks

David Troughton reads this gripping novelisation of a classic TV adventure featuring the Cybermen! 
 
When the TARDIS materialises inside a rocket, the Doctor and Jamie are alarmed by the presence of a hostile Servo-Robot. They discover that the rocket is drifting in the orbit of a giant space station - the Wheel in Space. 
 
Once inside the magnificent spaceship they are bewildered by its complexity and sheer size. The technicians and programmers are highly trained, but who are they working for? 
 
Suspecting the worst, the Doctor is still horrified to find the deadly Cybermen in control. What evil plan are they plotting? Who or what are the Cybermats? Can the Doctor trust anyone on board to help him stop the Wheel as it spins relentlessly through space? 
 
David Troughton, who played several roles in the BBC TV series, reads Terrance Dicks's novelisation of a 1968 serial by David Whitaker - with authentic Cyber voices by Nicholas Briggs. 
 
(P) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 
Cover illustration by Ian Burgess 
Reading produced by Neil Gardner 
Sound design by Simon Power 
Executive producer: Michael Stevens

Doctor Who: The Wheel In Space

2nd Doctor Novelisation

An exciting novelisation of a classic TV story featuring the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K9. On the planet Tigella, the Savants and the Deons are irrevocably opposed on one crucial issue: the Dodecahedron, mysterious source of all their power. 
 
 To the Savants it's a miracle of science to be studied and used to benefit all. To the Deons it's a god, and not to be tampered with. 
 
 When the power source begins to fluctuate, the whole planet is threatened. Zastor, Tigella's leader, welcomes the Doctor and invites him to arbitrate; yet the Time Lord may not be all he seems...

Doctor Who: Meglos

4th Doctor Novelisation

Terence Dudley

Rona Munro

Five exciting novelisations of classic TV stories in which the Doctor and his companions encounter a colourful assortment of aliens. 
 
 In Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil the renegade Time Lord masquerades as eminent scientist Emil Keller, operator of a deadly parasitical machine. 
 
 In Doctor Who and the Claws of Axos golden aliens arrive on Earth and offer the hand of friendship - but why is the Master on board their spaceship? 
 
 In Doctor Who: The King's Demons it's 1215 and the Doctor arrives in the presence of royalty - but King John is not all as he seems. 
 
 In Doctor Who: The Five Doctors past incarnations of the Doctor are kidnapped - and the Master is sent to rescue them! 
 
 In Doctor Who: Survival something is killing the domestic cats of Perivale, and the Doctor steps into a well-prepared trap... 
 
 Richard Franklin, Mark Strickson, Jon Culshaw and Lisa Bowerman read these classic tales, originally published as Target Books paperbacks. Duration: 20 hours 30 minutes approx ? 2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd © 2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Doctor Who: The Second Master Collection

3rd, 5th & 7th Doctor Novelisations

Rob Grant

Andrew Marshall

London, England, 1952. 
 
Meet the mercurial genius Professor Quanderhorn (James Fleet) - a maverick scientist with absolutely no moral compass. Join him and his rag-tag crew on their frontal-lobe-knotting escapades as they: 
 
· Battle insane hybrid creatures: the Gorrirrel and the Squirrilla, to the death! 
· Become Gods to a Stone Age tribe 
· Are engulfed in a Martian invasion of Earth 
· Escape shipwreck on the Moon in a spacecraft powered by anger 
· Evade multiple fiendish traps in the Alien Ziggurat of Death 
· Tussle with a Top Secret Parrot 
· Become terminally confused when they encounter their past selves in a Time accident... 
 
Will our crew of Brave Boffins survive? 
 
And what a crew they are: Q's part insect son, Troy, reputedly a "major breakthrough in Artificial Stupidity" (Freddie Fox); eager young Test Pilot and recovering amnesiac, Brian Nylon (Ryan Sampson); brilliant scientist Dr. Gemini Janussen with her half-clockwork brain (Cassie Layton); captured Martian hostage Guuuurk (Kevin Eldon); sinister janitor Jenkins (John Sessions), and synthetic-voice-commentator-later-inserted-into-diving-suit, Dolores (Rachel Atkins). 
 
Plug in your blue and red cardboard airpods and pair your tin foil router with the Droitwich transmitter array for an adventure beyond human understanding. 
 
Get it now, in Super-Vis-O-Download-O-Sound! [patent refused] 
 
This Collexion includes both series of the BBC Radio 4 sci-fi comedy, plus ten never-before-heard deleted scenes and interviews with the cast and crew. 
 
Track listing: 
 
Series 1: 
1. It's Eating My Face 
2. Mummy! My Donkey's Head is Exploding 
3. A Little Thing Like Chocolate Gates Can't Stop Us 
4. The Splattered Remains of Unidentifiable Organs Incident All Over Again 
5. Fear! Terror! Gut-wrenching Horror! Arg Arg. Please! 
6. Dah dah dah dah dah dahh Dah dah dah dah dahhh... 
 
Series 2: 
7. Killdiboos and Universibold Explodibangbang 
8. Shoveleth in More Hazlenuts! 
9. Wasp 
10. I Didn't Say it was Well Cloaked 
11. Am I Actually the Other Half of Gemma Emma Emma? 
12. I Heregy Thind You Guilky 
 
Deleted scenes: 
 13. Psychopathic Wasp (Series 1, Ep 6) 
14. Crockery Cupboard (Series 1, Ep 6) 
 15. Guuuurk Diary (Series 2, Ep1) 
 16. Nut Merchant (Series 2, Ep 2) 
 17. Bongo-playing Beatniks from Under the Sea (Series 2, Ep 4) 
 18. Martian Training (Series 2, Ep 4) 
 19. Martian Countdown (Series 2, Ep 5) 
20. Churchill Full Speech (Series 2, Ep 5) 
 21. Quanderhorn Prison Diary (Series 2, Ep 5) 
 22. Make your own Martian Opera Tracks (Series 2, Ep 6) 
 
Cast and crew interviews: 
23. Gordon interviews Rob, Andrew and sound designer Alisdair MacGregor 
24. Rob and Andrew interview composer Peter Brewis 
25. Gordon interviews Freddie Fox 
26. Gordon interviews John Sessions 
27. Gordon interviews Rachel Atkins and James Fleet 
28. Gordon interviews Ryan Sampson and Cassie Layton 
29. Gordon interviews Kevin Eldon 
 
Cast and credits: 
Professor Quanderhorn - James Fleet 
Brian Nylon - Ryan Sampson 
Dr Gemini Janussen - Cassie Layton 
Guuuurk - Kevin Eldon 
Troy Quanderhorn - Freddie Fox 
Churchill/Jenkins - John Sessions 
Synthetic Voice/Mrs Bessie Braddock (MP)/Virginia White/Dolores - Rachel Atkins 
Created and written by Rob Grant and Andrew Marshall 
 Directed by Andrew Marshall 
 Music by Peter Brewis 
 Engineered, Edited and Sound designed by Alisdair McGregor 
 Production Manager: Sarah Tombling 
 Produced by Rob Grant and Gordon Kennedy 
 Recorded at The Soundhouse Studios 
Special Thanks to Edward Rowett 
 
An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in June 2018 (Series 1) and May 2020 (Series 2).

The Quanderhorn Collexion

The complete BBC Radio 4 sci-fi comedy

Jonathan Swift

Robert Louis Stevenson

Arthur Conan Doyle

H.G. Wells

John Buchan

Unabridged readings of five gripping adventure stories 
 
This thrilling anthology contains five action-packed tales of incredible journeys, a murderous treasure hunt, invaders from outer space and international espionage - all read in full by some of the very best voice actors. With over 33 hours of exciting listening, tracked by chapter, let yourself get carried away with these classic adventures. 
 
Gulliver's Travels 
Jonathan Swift's dark satire following Lemuel Gulliver's fantastical travels through strange and exotic lands. Read by Tony Turner. 
 
Kidnapped 
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story of David Balfour's youthful adventures on the high seas and across the Scottish Highlands. Read by Kenny Blyth. 
 
The Sign of the Four 
Arthur Conan Doyle's intriguing locked-room mystery follows Holmes and Watson as they uncover a murky tale of theft, betrayal and greed. Read by Kenny Blyth. 
 
The War of the Worlds 
HG Wells' iconic sci-fi story about the battle to save Earth from a Martian invasion. Read by Michael Bertenshaw. 
 
The Thirty-Nine Steps 
John Buchan's stirring tale of derring-do, secrets and spies set in the shadows of war. Read by Kenny Blyth. 
 
Credits: 
 
Gulliver's Travels 
Read by Tony Turner 
Produced by Ross Burman 
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 1 November 2019 
 
Kidnapped 
Read by Kenny Blyth 
Produced by Ciaran Bermingham 
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 24 August 2019 
 
The Sign of the Four 
Read by Kenny Blyth 
Produced by Ciaran Bermingham 
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 22 August 2019 
 
The War of the Worlds 
Read by Michael Bertenshaw 
Produced by Martha Littlehailes 
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 23 August 2019 
 
The Thirty-Nine Steps 
Read by Kenny Blyth 
Produced by Karen Holden 
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 1 November 2019 
 
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© 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

BBC Classics: Adventure Collection

Gulliver’s Travels, Kidnapped, The Sign of Four, The War of the Worlds & The Thirty-Nine Steps

Geoffrey Beevers reads this action-packed novelisation of a classic TV adventure for the Fifth Doctor. 
 
 When the Doctor returns to Gallifrey, he learns that his bio data extract has been stolen from the Time Lords' master computer, known as the Matrix. 
 
 The extract is a detailed description of the Doctor's molecular structure which, in the wrong hands, could be exploited with disastrous effect. 
 
 The Gallifreyan High Council believe that anti-matter will be infiltrated into the Universe as a result of the theft. To avoid this, they decide the Doctor must die. But an old enemy is waiting in the wings... 
 
 Geoffrey Beevers, who played the Master in the BBC series, reads Terrance Dicks's complete and unabridged novelisation of a 1983 TV serial by Johnny Byrne. 
 
 (P) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 
 Cover illustration by Alister Pearson 
 Reading produced by Neil Gardner 
 Sound design by Simon Power 
 Executive producer: Michael Stevens

Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity

5th Doctor Novelisation

Jonathan Morris

Dan Starkey reads this imaginitive original story featuring the Twelfth Doctor and Nardole. 
 
"Time: the present. Place: Smalltown, USA. A town like any other. A sleepy world of white picket fences, front porch gliders and freshly-mown lawns, a Pontiac or Chevrolet in every driveway. 
 
"But the streets are empty, with not a sound to be heard, and no-one to hear it if there was. Because this town is merely an empty stage, waiting for its players to take their parts. They're due to make their entrance any moment now, strangers in a strange land, somewhere in that timeless space known only as The Nightmare Realm." 
 
It's into this strange world of shifting sands that the TARDIS propels the Doctor and Nardole, who think they're in 1950s suburbia until an apparent nuclear attack takes them into far darker territory, with a series of terrifying consequences... 
 
Dan Starkey, who played the Sontaran Strax in the TV series, reads this unsettling original story by Jonathan Morris 
 
(P) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 
Reading produced by Neil Gardner 
Sound design by David Roocroft 
Project editor: John Ainsworth 
Executive producer: Michael Stevens

Doctor Who: The Nightmare Realm

12th Doctor Audio Original

Alex Kingston

Alex Kingston reads her brand new novel featuring River Song, from the worlds of Doctor Who. 
 
1939, New York. Private Eye, Melody Malone, is hired to find a stolen ruby, the Eye of Horus. The ruby might hold the secret to the location of Cleopatra's tomb - but everyone who comes into contact with it dies. 
 
Can Melody escape the ruby's curse? 
 
1939, New York. River Song, author of the Melody Malone Mysteries, is forced to find a reality-altering weapon, the Eye of Horus - but everyone who comes into contact with it dies. River doesn't believe in curses - but is she wrong? 
 
From the top-security confines of Stormcage to the barbarism of first-century Egypt, River battles to find the Eye of Horus before its powers are used to transform the universe. To succeed, she must team up with a most unlikely ally - her own fictional alter ego, Melody. And together they must solve another mystery: Is fiction changing into fact - or is fact changing into fiction?

Doctor Who: The Ruby's Curse

River Song Novel

Louise Jameson reads this novelisation of a classic TV adventure for the Fourth Doctor, Leela and K9. 
 
 The TARDIS materialises on a spaceship at the edge of the known universe, and the Doctor, Leela and K9 encounter a group of astronauts searching for the lost gene bank of the Minyan race. The craft plunges into the heart of a recently formed planet, wherein the Doctor discovers an awesome secret: the descendants of a previous Minyan expedition have become enslaved to a powerul computer! 
 
 A dangerous quest leads to a confrontation with the Oracle, at the heart of a fabled crashed spaceship, the P7E. 
 
 Louise Jameson, who played Leela in the BBC TV series, reads Terrance Dicks's novelisation of a 1978 serial by Bob Baker &amp; Dave Martin.

Doctor Who and the Underworld

David Whitaker

Mervyn Haisman & Henry Lincoln

Victor Pemberton

Derrick Sherwin

Robert Holmes

Six narrated TV soundtrack adventures starring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor - plus bonus features. These thrilling recordings of TV episodes, largely absent from the BBC archives, have been remastered with additional linking narration by original cast members. 
 
This set also includes bonus interviews with Wendy Padbury and Frazer Hines. 
In The Enemy of the World, recently returned to the film archives, the time travellers meet the Doctor's murderous double. 
 In The Web of Fear the Doctor and friends find the London Underground tunnels overrun by Yeti! 
In Fury from the Deep something nasty is lurking in the gas pipelines of the North Sea. 
In The Wheel in Space the Doctor and Jamie confront some old adversaries in the far future. 
In The Invasion the Doctor battles to prevent the Cybermen from invading present day Earth. 
In The Space Pirates the TARDIS crew encounter the Interstellar Space Corps and a gang of murderous bandits. 
 
 The collection also includes PDF files featuring high quality scans of the original BBC TV camera scripts. 
 
Duration: 15 hours 30 mins 
(P) &amp; © 2021 BBC Studios Distribution 
For cast and credits see accompanying PDF booklet

Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes Collection Five

Second Doctor TV Soundtracks

A thrilling selection of weird and wonderful short stories from the pages of Doctor Who Annual. 
 
 Jon Culshaw, John Leeson, Terry Molloy, Louise Jameson, Dan Starkey and Geoffrey Beevers read seven stories from the legendary Doctor Who Annual of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. 
 
 In Justice of the Glacians the First Doctor gets into difficulties in a snowy wilderness. The Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria fall into the clutches of the Mastermind of Space, whilst the Third Doctor and Sarah go in search of The Time Thief. The Fourth Doctor is taken prisoner with Leela on The Planet of Dust, then joins Romana and K9 for A Midsummer's Nightmare. The Fifth Doctor and Tegan encounter the Master at The Creation of Camelot, and the Sixth Doctor and Peri observe an intriguing Interface in time. 
 
 
Set the co-ordinates for nostalgia with these vintage tales, all featuring atmospheric sound design.

Doctor Who: The Planet of Dust & Other Stories

Doctor Who Audio Annual

Peter Grimwade

An exciting classic novelisation of a Fifth Doctor TV adventure featuring an old enemy of the Doctor.

Doctor Who: Time-Flight

Matthew Broughton

The final series of the conspiracy thriller 
 
Dr Helen Ash is coming to terms with the fact she has just 9 months to live, when she's emailed a video of a boat mysteriously sinking in stormy seas. And the email is from her dead father. 
 
As she and Freddy try to find out whether the sunken ship really exists, they realise that they are being followed. And disaster awaits... 
 
A gripping thriller, Tracks has won multiple awards including Best Sound (BBC Audio Drama Awards) and Best Fiction (British Podcast Awards). Now Tracks is back with a fifth and final nine-part series. 
 
Cast 
Helen... Olivia Poulet 
Freddy.... Jonathan Forbes 
Eddy.... Mark Bonnar 
Lucy.... Kiran Sonia Sawar 
Yvonne.... Bettrys Jones 
Cancer Specialist.... Finlay Robertson 
Amina.... Emma Fryer 
Rebecca.... Carys Eleri 
Frances.... Juno Robinson 
Joanna.... Beatrice Engel 
Naani... Sindhu Vee 
Oskar ... David Menkin 
Farouk... Amir El-Masry 
Henning/Tec... Dino Kelly 
Valerie Peluso.... Juliet Cowan 
Barbara.... Barbara Flynn 
Linda... Maria Pride 
Irene... Heather Craney 
The Assistant...Tom Mumford 
Older Frances.... Scarlett Courtney 
Professor Manuel.... Peter Marinker 
The Architect.... Siân Phillips 
The Reporter.... Kathy Clugston 
The Medic.... Stefan Adegbola 
 
Directed by James Robinson 
A BBC Cymru Wales Production

Tracks: Series 5

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast thriller

Robert Shearman

Nicholas Briggs reads this brand new novelisation of a thrilling screen adventure for the Ninth Doctor and Rose. 
 
'The entire Dalek race, wiped out in one second. I watched it happen. I made it happen!' 
 
The Doctor and Rose arrive in an underground vault in Utah in the near future. The vault is filled with alien artefacts. Its billionaire owner, Henry van Statten, even has possession of a living alien creature, a mechanical monster in chains that he has named a Metaltron. 
 
Seeking to help the Metaltron, the Doctor is appalled to find it is in fact a Dalek - one that has survived the horrors of the Time War, just as he has. And as the Dalek breaks loose, the Doctor is brought back to the brutality and desperation of his darkest hours spent fighting the creatures of Skaro... this time with the Earth as their battlefield. 
 
Nicholas Briggs, who voices the Daleks in the BBC TV series, reads Robert Shearman's novelisation of his own 2005 TV script. 
 
(P) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 
Reading produced by Neil Gardner 
Sound design by Simon Power 
 Executive producer: Michael Stevens

Doctor Who: Dalek

9th Doctor Novelisation

Mark Gatiss

Catrin Stewart reads this brand new novelisation of an action-packed TV adventure for the Eleventh Doctor and Clara. 
 
'We must get to the bottom of this dark and queer business, no matter what the cost!' 
 
Something ghastly is afoot in Victorian Yorkshire. Something that kills. Bodies are washing up in the canal, their skin a waxy, glowing red... But just what is this crimson horror? 
 
Madam Vastra, Jenny and Strax are despatched to investigate the mystery. Strangely reluctant to assist their enquiries is Mrs Winifred Gillyflower, matriarch of 'Sweetville', a seemingly utopian workers' community. 
 
Why do all roads lead to the team's old friends, Clara and the Doctor? 
Who is Mrs Gillyflower's mysterious silent partner, Mr Sweet? 
 
And will the motley gang be in time to defeat the mysterious power that threatens all the world with its poison? 
 
Catrin Stewart, who played Jenny in the BBC TV series, is joined by Dan Starkey as Strax in this reading of Mark Gatiss's novelisation of his own 2013 TV script. 
 
(P) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 
Reading produced by Neil Gardner 
Sound design by Simon Power 
Executive producer: Michael Stevens

Doctor Who: The Crimson Horror

11th Doctor Novelisation

Gary Russell

Dan Starkey reads this brand new novelisation of the 1996 TV Movie featuring the Eighth Doctor. 
 
'Who am I...? WHO AM I?' 
 
It's December 1999, and strange things are happening as the new millennium nears. A British police box appears from nowhere in San Francisco's Chinatown, and the mysterious man inside it is shot down in the street. Despite the best efforts of Dr Grace Holloway, the man dies and another stranger appears, claiming to be the same person in a different body: a wanderer in time and space known only as the Doctor. 
 
But the Doctor is not the only alien in San Francisco. His deadly adversary, the Master, is murdering his way through the city and has taken control of the TARDIS. The Master is desperate to take the Doctor's newly regenerated body for himself, and if the Doctor does not capitulate, it will literally cost him the Earth... and every last life on it. 
 
Dan Starkey, who played the Sontaran Strax in the BBC TV series, reads Gary Russell's novelisation of a TV script by Matthew Jacobs. 
 
 (P) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 
Reading produced by Neil Gardner 
Sound design by David Darlington 
 Executive producer: Michael Stevens

Doctor Who: The TV Movie

8th Doctor Novelisation

Joy Wilkinson

Sophie Aldred reads this brand new novelisation of a thrilling screen adventure for the Thirteenth Doctor. 
 
'I am an expert on witchcraft, Doctor, but I wish to learn more. Before you die, I want answers.' 
 
The TARDIS lands in the Lancashire village of Bilehurst Cragg in the 17th Century, and the Doctor, Ryan, Graham and Yaz soon become embroiled in a witch trial run by the local landowner. Fear stalks the land, and the arrival of King James I only serves to intensify the witch hunt. 
 
But the Doctor soon realises there is something more sinister than paranoia and superstition at work. Tendrils of living mud stir in the ground, and the dead lurch back to horrifying life as an evil alien presence begins to revive. 
 
The Doctor and her friends must save not only the people of Bilehurst Cragg from the wakening forces, but the entire world. 
 
Sophie Aldred, who played Ace in the BBC TV series, reads Joy Wilkinson's novelisation of her own 2018 TV script. 
 
(P) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 
Reading produced by Neil Gardner 
Sound design by David Roocroft 
Executive producer: Michael Stevens

Doctor Who: The Witchfinders

13th Doctor Novelisation

B.D. Chapman

A sensational sci-fi serial from the birth of space exploration 
 
First broadcast in 1959, a fortnight after the Soviet Luna 2 space probe crash-landed on the Moon, Orbiter X thrilled radio audiences with its gripping and topical story of plucky British astronauts and their bold plan to conquer space. The original recordings were presumed lost, but fortunately a set of discs made for overseas broadcast survived to be found and remastered by Radio 4 Extra in 2016. Included here are all 14 episodes of the rediscovered serial. 
 
The road to the stars begins with the prefabricated components of a space station being rocketed into orbit. Shaped like a giant wheel and codenamed 'Orbiter X', the platform will boast synthetic gravity, produced by the rotation around the central hub, and is designed to circle the Earth in a rapid polar orbit. Equipped with a laboratory, observatory and living accommodation for the crew, it will enable mankind to explore the solar system and perhaps even set foot on the Moon... 
 
But before construction can begin, the first assembly ship, Orbiter 1, loses contact with mission control following an apparent collision. A second craft, Orbiter 2, piloted by Captain Bob Britton, is sent out to rescue the first crew, but finds Orbiter 1 deserted and the ship's log missing. Orbiter 2 has been led into a trap - and before they can escape, Britton and his team find themselves under attack... 
 
Written by prolific dramatist BD Chapman, whose credits included Dick Barton - Special Agent, this tense, suspenseful space serial stars John Carson as Captain Bob Britton, Andrew Crawford as Captain Douglas McClelland and Barrie Gosney as Flight Engineer Hicks. 
 
 
 Produced by Charles Maxwell 
 
Cast 
Captain Bob Britton - John Carson 
Captain Douglas McClelland - Andrew Crawford 
Flight Engineer Hicks - Barrie Gosney 
Colonel Kent - Donald Bisset 
Captain Jack Bradley - John Witty 
UFO Commander - Arthur Lawrence 
Control Officer Camm - Francis Hall 
Radio Operator - John Matthews 
Gelbin - Arthur Lawrence 
Max Kramer - Gerik Schjelderup 
Greta Ravel - Irene Prador 
Sir Charles Day - Leslie Perrins 
Control Officer Brown - Peter Noel Cook 
Neasen - Ian Sadler 
Letmann - John Cazabon 
Captain Knight - John Graham 
 
First broadcast BBC Light Programme, 28 September-28 December 1959

Orbiter X

A BBC Radio sci-fi adventure

Stephen Gallagher

Steven Pacey reads a brand new original adventure for the Doctor's former companion, Romana. 
 
 Residing on the threshold of E-Space with the Tharil Laszlo, Romana is on the trail of a terrible enemy. Allies of the enslaved, the duo ride the Time Winds in search of the desperate Sluagh. 
 
 Meanwhile, on a bloody American Civil War battlefield, young soldier Joshua is haunted by spectres: pale, vicious-looking aliens who prey upon the dead to raise an army of living corpses. With the fabled Kairos Ring they can carve portals into other dimensions - and, by accident, Joshua is blown through one of them. 
 
 United with Romana and Laszlo against the dreadful Sluagh, Joshua finds himself catapulted into a strange new world of learning. But one secret is waiting to catch up with him... 
 
 Stephen Gallagher, who wrote Romana's final Doctor Who TV story, Warriors' Gate, now reveals her exciting adventures Beyond the Doctor.

Doctor Who: The Kairos Ring

Ian Stuart Black

Peter Purves reads this gripping classic novelisation of a TV adventure featuring the First Doctor and his companions Steven and Dodo. 
 
Landing on a distant planet, the Doctor confidently announces to his companions that the TARDIS has brought them to an age of great advancement, peace and prosperity. The Doctor's calculations seem to be confirmed when the travellers are greeted by Jano and the Elders, who take them on a tour of their city - a haven of beauty, harmony and friendship, set in a wilderness inhabited by tribes of savages. But the security of the city is founded on one deadly and appalling secret. 
 
Soon the Doctor and his friends discover that is not only outside the city walls that savages dwell... 
 
Peter Purves, who played Steven in the BBC TV series, reads Ian Stuart Black's complete and unabridged novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1986. 
 
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© Ian Stuart Black 1986 
Cover illustration by David McAllister 
Reading produced by Neil Gardner 
Recorded at Ladbroke Audio Ltd 
Sound design by Simon Power for Meon Productions - www.meonsound.com 
Executive producer: Michael Stevens

Doctor Who: The Savages

1st Doctor Novelisation

Andrew Smith

Bob Baker And  Dave Martin

Ian Briggs

Christopher H Bidmead

Five exciting novelisations of classic TV stories in which the Doctor and his companions encounter a colourful assortment of aliens. 
 
 In Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters the TARDIS appears to land in the Indian Ocean, but something is very wrong. Here lie Drashigs... 
 
 Doctor Who and the Sontaran Experiment sends the Doctor and friends to a future Earth, where a familiar opponent is subjugating humans. 
 
 In Doctor Who: Full Circle the occupants of a distant planet are fleeing from Mistfall, and the coming of the Marshmen. 
 
 Doctor Who: Frontios finds the TARDIS in the far future, with a planet undermined by the monstrous Tractators. 
 
 In Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric an ancient evil stirs in 1940s England. 
 
 Katy Manning, Jon Culshaw, Matthew Waterhouse, Christopher H Bidmead and Terry Molloy read these classic tales, originally published as Target Books paperbacks. 
 
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 Cover illustration by Andrew Skilleter

Doctor Who: The Second Monsters Collection

3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th Doctor Novelisations

Nick Perry

A child in an East End garden plays with an imaginary friend. One day she goes to the bottom of the garden and never returns. A homeless man desperately tries to stay awake, believing that whenever he falls asleep he wakes up in a different century. A London Underground maintenance engineer walks the two miles between adjacent stations in less than four minutes. 
 
While travelling on the London Underground one afternoon, Alice meets the gaze of a man standing on the platform of a mysterious "ghost station". As her train hurtles into a tunnel, he's gone. She's convinced that the man was her brother Alan who has been missing presumed dead for the past five years. 
 
 This fleeting encounter is the beginning of Alice's increasingly bizarre, desperate and labyrinthine search for her missing brother, a journey that leads her back through time into London's past. 
 
 As Alice soon discovers, London is not one but many cities, a city of curious anomalies and dark secrets, of hidden portals to other dimensions, a city so vast and varied that the weird and the uncanny blend seamlessly with the ordinary, where the person sitting next to you on the bus, or walking beside you on the pavement, may in fact be a visitor from another time. 
 
Alice . . . . . Scarlett Brookes 
Alan . . . . . Ian Dunnett Jnr 
Mum/Jackie . . . . . Jane Whittenshaw 
Lizzie . . . . . Emma Handy 
Dorian/Doctor/Churchill . . . . . Roger Ringrose 
Simon/Morris . . . . . Joseph Ayre 
Kelechi/Jack . . . . . Stefan Adegbola 
Stefania/Jill . . . . . Charlotte East 
Child/Isaac . . . . . Aaron Gelkoff 
Pianist: Peter Ringrose 
 
Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko

London Particular

A BBC Radio sci-fi drama

Colin Swash

Stephen Moore stars in this dystopian comedy set in a future where living beyond 70 is prohibited 
 
30th Century Britain, and the calamitous collapse of the pension system means compulsory euthanasia for all 70-year-olds. But a clerical error spells disaster for 69-year-old George Smith, who suddenly finds himself facing his demise a year early. Feisty George isn't going to take this lying down, and goes into battle with Central Admin - and the terrifying TV crew from This Was Your Life, who want to broadcast his imminent death live on air. 
 
On the run with bikini-clad bounty hunter Andrea Sunbeam, George goes underground, where he meets Public Enemy Number One (aka Mrs Cookson), the leader of a gang of senior citizen anarchists called the Old Age Paramilitaries. They've developed a secret weapon to destroy Central Admin's computer - and, armed with a new face and an array of OAP gadgets, George is just the man to use it... 
 
With the future of civilisation at stake, can George and his old age pals save humanity? 
 
A follow-up to the cult hit Paradise Lost in Space, this lively Logan's Run parody by Colin Swash stars Stephen Moore (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) as George, Lorelei King as Andrea and Edna Doré as Mrs Cookson, with co-stars including Geoffrey McGivern, Melanie Hudson and Christopher Douglas. Among the guest stars are Peter Serafinowicz and Lewis MacLeod. 
 
Production credits 
Written by Colin Swash 
Produced by Richard Wilson 
 
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 24 February-31 March 1998 
 
Cast 
George - Stephen Moore 
Doris - Patsy Byrne 
O'Connell - Geoffrey McGivern 
Andrea Sunbeam - Lorelei King 
Mrs Cookson - Edna Doré 
Wilma P Random/Dawkins - Melanie Hudson 
Dave Lusterheusen/Ronnie/Brian Kettle - Christopher Douglas 
With Lewis MacLeod, Peter Serafinowicz, Dave Lamb and Joanna Brookes

Paradise Lost in Cyberspace

A BBC Radio sci-fi comedy

Tony Robinson and David Haig star in this black-hole comedy about two space-age humans stranded on a friendly alien planet 
 
Norman is an idealistic, Beethoven-loving revolutionary. Max is a boring but cheerful timeshare salesman who won't stop talking. Fellow passengers on a flight to the Moon, they're thrown together to become reluctant companions after the lunar shuttle's toilet cubicle explodes, crash-landing them both on the desert sands of a distant alien planet. 
 
They are rescued by the friendly Oblivions, who could not be more delighted to see them. Having spent six years learning English from a discarded volume of Noël Coward plays, they're keen to practise the lingo - and learn more about the many mysteries that have baffled them. How do you mix a Martini? How does one play tennis? And what on Earth is misery? 
 
Norman and Max are about to answer all their questions - as well as introducing them to fire, contemplation and baked potatoes. But their well-intentioned attempts to share the secrets of racquet-based games and sophisticated cocktails soon backfire. Perhaps providing the Oblivions with the priceless gifts of human civilization wasn't such a good idea after all... 
 
Written by Colin Swash, whose numerous TV credits include Have I Got News For You and Mock the Week, this sci-fi sitcom stars Tony Robinson as Max and David Haig as Norman. Among the co-stars are Geoffrey McGivern and Lorelei King (The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy), and guest stars include Alistair McGowan, Peter Serafinowicz and Ronni Ancona. 
Production credits 
Written by Colin Swash 
Produced by Richard Wilson 
 
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 9 March-13 April 1995 
 
Cast 
Norman - Tony Robinson 
Max - David Haig 
Stella - Louise Lombard 
Macari - Michael Troughton 
Captain Rossiter - Dan Strauss 
Jane/Terayz/Suzy - Carla Mendonça 
Tony - Geoffrey McGivern 
Ken - Tom Hollander 
Inspector Albermarle - Andy Rashleigh 
Clive - Guy Witcher 
Jonathan Ross - Alistair McGowan 
Buzz - Peter Serafinowicz 
Louise - Ronni Ancona 
Voice of Ume - Lorelei King 
Vince - Daniel Main

Paradise Lost in Space

Ian Simons

The BBC Radio 7 sci-fi comedy, starring Dan Mersh, Tim Key, Prunella Scales and Dan Tetsell 
 
Reporters Charlie Palmer and Moog Johnson are supposed to be exploring the galaxy in search of unimaginable news. But the beauty of an infinite universe is that if everything possible happens somewhere, there's no need to actually go there to check. So they may as well stay where they are - parked on Clapham Common disguised as a hedge - and simply make up their stories instead. 
 
Unfortunately, their terrifying boss at Inter-Galactic News, Korg, is on to them, and won't tolerate their fake news any longer. From now on, they have to provide real reports - or he'll have their spleens in a box... 
 
Aided by onboard computer Mother, who provides them with Bakewell tarts and Jammy Dodgers (her baking programme has overwritten pretty much all her other software), the duo prepare to take the IGN Indolent on a variety of perilous missions, including locating a missing ambassador, babysitting Korg's nephew, tracking down Mad Captain Pendulum and finding the perfect present for Mother's birthday. 
 
Can they avoid having their ship captured by pirates? Will they survive a messy meeting with the Emperor of the Toilet People? And when an evil planet tries to take over the universe while Mother's away, who will come to their rescue? 
 
Written by Stuart Sumner and Ian Simons, this light-hearted space comedy stars Dan Mersh as Charlie, Tim Key as Moog, Prunella Scales as Mother and Dan Tetsell as Korg. Guest stars include The IT Crowd's Chris O'Dowd and Geoffrey McGivern, who played Ford Prefect in the original radio production of The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy. 
 
 
Produced by Victoria Lloyd 
Original music by Ben Walker, with additional music by George Corporal 
First broadcast BBC Radio 7, 10 February-3 March 2007 (Series 1), 1-22 March 2008 (Series 2) 
 
Cast 
Charlie - Dan Mersh 
Moog - Tim Key 
Mother - Prunella Scales 
Korg - Dan Tetsell 
Fluffy/Claude/Postmaster General - Jot Davies 
Yecch - Margaret Cabourn-Smith 
Captain Grey/Sprout-Bunge- Colin Holt 
Captain Pendulum - Chris O'Dowd 
Aunty Genocide/Sam - Anna Bengo 
Eddie Chessington - Geoffrey McGivern 
Ben - Gus Brown

Space Hacks: The Complete Series 1 and 2

Pamela Salem reads this exciting novelisation of a classic Fourth Doctor TV adventure, featuring the departure of Sarah Jane Smith. 
 
The TARDIS lands in England, and Sarah, the Doctor's companion, looks forward to going home. A freak accident in a quarry leaves the unconscious Sarah clutching an enormous stone hand. The only surviving remnant of Eldrad - an alien super-being expelled from his planet, Kastria - it has the power to control the human mind. 
 
Using Sarah as its instrument, the hand goes in search of the atomic energy it needs to regenerate Eldrad's body. Eldrad is determined to return to Kastria and punish his enemies, and the Doctor and Sarah are caught up in the terrifying conclusion of a drama of betrayal and revenge that began millions of years ago. 
 
Pamela Salem, who made several appearances in the BBC TV series, reads Terrance Dicks's novelisation of the TV serial by Bob Baker and Dave Martin, first published by Target Books in 1979. 
 
"Attention to detail is the hallmark of this always excellent range." Doctor Who Magazine 
 
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© Terrance Dicks, Bob Baker and Dave Martin 
1979 Cover illustration by Roy Knipe 
Reading produced by Neil Gardner 
Recorded at Ladbroke Audio Ltd 
Sound design by Simon Power for Meon Productions - www.meonsound.com 
Executive producer: Michael Stevens

Doctor Who and the Hand of Fear

Darren Jones

A brand new standalone adventure for the Tenth Doctor, which also forms part of the Time Lord Victorious story arc, read by Jacob Dudman. 
 
The Doctor travels with Brian, the Ood assassin, to the planet Magnox, one of the greatest receptacles of knowledge the universe will ever know. The Doctor needs to ask a vital question, but the answer is Grade 1 Classified! In order to gain an audience with the Minds of Magnox themselves he must take a dangerous test. Is he smart enough to get through? 
 
Meanwhile, Brian gets involved with the criminal fraternity and is given a job: to assassinate the Minds of Magnox. However, others also have the planet within their sights... 
 
Jacob Dudman reads this exclusive audio adventure by Darren Jones. 
 
Time Lord Victorious is a multi-platform Doctor Who event launching in Autumn 2020. It will tell a new and untold story, set within the Dark Times at the start of the universe, when even the Eternals were young. Following several Doctors across space and time as they defend their home planet from a terrible race, this is a story like no other. 
 
The story will feature the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Doctors, companion Rose Tyler and monsters including the Daleks and the Ood. 
 
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Text © Darren Jones 2020 
Cover design by Oink Creative 
Reading produced by Neil Gardner 
Recorded at Ladbroke Audio Ltd 
Sound design by David Roocroft 
Project Editor: John Ainsworth 
Executive producer: Michael Stevens

Doctor Who: The Minds of Magnox

Time Lord Victorious

Terry Nation

Dalek invasion is imminent! 
 
Attention: the war against the Daleks continues apace in this new collection of vintage stories from the pen of their creator, Terry Nation. 
 
Our successful defence of the galaxy depends on all Anti-Dalek Force agents staying informed of the latest events, in outer space and on a variety of alien planets. That information can be found here! 
 
Intrepid ADF agents Nicholas Briggs, Terry Molloy, Steven Pacey and Jon Culshaw relate a series of terrifying adventures - The Castaway, The Solution, The Secret Invasion and The Seeds of Destruction - and issue special briefings including Dalek Terminology, Dalography of Skaro, Recent Findings on the Moon and The Dalek War Machines. All material is authenticated from Terry Nation's Dalek Annuals and other books. 
 
Whether in present day London or on further-flung shores, the battle with the Daleks is all around us. Listen now or be exterminated! 
 
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Text © Terry Nation 1965, 1978, 1979 
Cover images © BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 2020

Daleks Destroy: The Secret Invasion & Other Stories

From the Worlds of Doctor Who?

David Ellis

Malcolm Hulke

Brian Hayles

Five narrated TV soundtrack adventures starring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor - plus bonus features. 
 
Absent from the TV archives, these stories survive in their entirety only as soundtrack recordings. Now remastered, with additional linking narration, you can enjoy them again: plus bonus interviews with Anneke Wills and Frazer Hines. 
 
 In The Macra Terror the TARDIS visits a human colony that appears to be one big holiday camp, but has in fact been infiltrated and taken over by a race of giant crab-like creatures - the Macra. 
 
The Faceless Ones sees the TARDIS make a hazardous return to 1960s Earth, materialising on a runway at Gatwick Airport! 
 
In The Evil of the Daleks the TARDIS has been stolen by antiques dealer Edward Waterfield, who lures the Doctor and Jamie into an elaborate trap set by the most deadly race in the universe: The Daleks. 
 
The Abominable Snowmen finds the TARDIS in the Himalayas in 1935, where the Doctor makes a return visit to the nearby Detsen monastery – only to find it under attack, apparently from the Yeti... 
 
In The Ice Warriors the TARDIS crew materialise in an England of the future to find Earth in the grip of a new Ice Age – and under threat from a new menace in the form of the Ice Warriors...

Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes Collection Four

Described by his creator as 'short, fat and primitive', Evert Bäckström is a rather unique homicide detective but he is undeniably the real deal with it comes to modern policing. 
 
This series is blackly comic, thrillingly compelling and utterly real.

Bäckström

CAMP GOLD

Caedmon Aisquith

Cairo Trilogy

Can You Solve the Murder?

Capital

Care Bears

Cartoon Kid

Cath Kidston

A crime-fiction series with a twist - private investigator Catherine Berlin, is a damaged soul struggling with a heroin addiction, but she still manages to do her best, even when her own neck is on the chopping block.

Catherine Berlin

Celeste Express

Central Intelligence

Chaos and Flame

Charles Hayden

Charles Paris Dramatisations

Charlie Bass

Charlie Changes Into a Chicken

Charlie and Lola

Cherry Blossoms After Winter

Chevalier

Chinese Cinderella

Life at Tanglewood isn't all sleepovers, picnics and beach parties. Cherry, Summer, Skye, Coco and Honey all face some tough life challenges in this delicious series from bestselling girls' favourite Cathy Cassidy. Every sister has a secret to share. Which one will be your favourite?

Chocolate Box Girls

Christmas

Chronicles of Vladimir Tod

Churchminister

Welcome inside the violent, treacherous world of Roman politics, and learn how one man - clever, compassionate, devious, vulnerable - fought to reach the top.

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