November 20, 2007
Doctor Who — The Curse Of Peladon
The Curse Of Peladon is another audio book in the Doctor Who series.
May I present Princess Josephine…of TARDIS!’
The TARDIS arrives on the storm-lashed planet of Peladon, just as it is being assessed for its suitability to join the Galactic Federation.
Mistaken for Federation delegates from Earth, the Doctor and Jo become involved in a series of dramatic events at the conference.
King Peladon’s Chancellor has died in mysterious circumstances, and his High Priest is vehemently opposed to the Federation’s advances.
Amongst the other delegates are hermaphrodite hexapod Alpha Centauri, half-automaton Arcturus, and two Ice Warriors – whose species the Doctor knows as old adversaries. Confined together in the Citadel, they struggle to counter myth and superstition with logic and reason.
Is the Curse of Peladon about to strike those who form a union with the Federation? Has the Royal beast Aggedor risen to defend the planet’s independence? And could one of the delegates actually be working to double-cross the others?
The Doctor and Jo must work fast to solve these and other questions, and at the same time stay alive…
October 10, 2007
Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon — Audio Book
Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon is another audiobook in the Doctor Who series. Malcolm Hulke is the author and Geoffrey Beevers is the narrator.
The evil Master has stolen the Time Lords’ file on the horrifying Doomsday Weapon with which, when he finds it, he can blast whole planets out of existence and make himself ruler of the Galaxy!
The Time Lords direct Doctor Who and Jo Grant in their TARDIS to a bleak planet in the year 2471, were they find colonists from Earth under threat from mysterious, savage, monster lizards with frightful claws!
And hidden upon the planet is the Doomsday Weapon, for which the master is intently searching. . .
Geoffrey Beevers, who played an incarnation of the master in the classic BBC TV Doctor Who series, reads Malcolm Hulke’s complete and unabridged novelisation, based on the TV adventure Colony In Space and first published by Target Books in 1974.
September 30, 2007
Doctor Who – The Faceless Ones Audio Book
Doctor Who – The Faceless Ones is a BBC Audiobooks Full Cast Production.
The TARDIS makes a hazardous return to contemporary Earth – materialising at Gatwick Airport in the path of an oncoming aeroplane! The travellers split up in order to evade airport security, but in doing so they become embroiled in a plot to steal the personalities of young human beings.
The Chameleons: faceless aliens who have lost their very identities following a disaster on their home world. Now they have infiltrated the airport, setting up the bogus Chameleon Tours in order to kidnap passengers and take over their very identities. As the Doctor and his companions become mixed up in the alien machinations, it soon becomes difficult for them to distinguish friends from enemies…
This story, only two episodes of which survive in the television archive, marks the departure of companions Ben and Polly, played by Michael Craze and Anneke Wills, from the series. It also features Frazer Hines as Jamie and Pauline Collins as Samantha Briggs.
September 26, 2007
Doctor Who – The Power of the Daleks
Doctor Who – The Power of the Daleks is an audio book published by BBC Audiobooks Ltd.
The first doctor becomes the second in this exclusive recording of Doctor Who‘s original regeneration story, starring Patrick Troughton with linking narration by Anneke Wills
‘ I’ve been renewed… without it I couldn’t survive .’
Before the astonished eyes of his companions Ben and Polly, the Doctor’s whole body has apparently been transformed. Now they are confronted by a stranger who claims to be their old friend – but how can they know whether to trust him?
The Tardis’s arrival on the swamp planet of Vulcan brings its own problems; the Doctor is mistaken for an official come to solve the Earth colony’s in-fighting, and soon he and his companions are embroiled in political wranglings. However, a far more serious threat lurks within the colony. The scientist Lesterson has discovered a crashed space capsule, within it a group of inert metallic creatures which the Doctor identifies as Daleks. Refusing to heed the Doctor’s warnings, Lesterson supplies power to the Daleks and revives them.
The awakened Daleks claim to be faithful servants of humanity – but could such a thing ever be possible? By covert means they seek an increasing level of energy, but for what? By the time the Doctor and his friends discover the Daleks’ true plan for the colony, it looks as if it might already be too late to stop them…
Anneke Wills , who plays Polly in the story, narrates this debut story for the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton , first broadcast in 1966 and long since missing from the television archives.
August 9, 2007
Alan Bennett – Triple Bill
Alan Bennett – Triple Bill is an audiobook containing three classic Alan Bennett adaptations, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and released for the first time.
A Visit from Miss Prothero
Since Mr Dodsworth retired, he has had all the time in the world. Then he has a visitor from his old firm – Miss Prothero, who is eager to tell him all the news…
Say Something Happened
A naive, inexperienced social worker calls on an elderly couple – but does she need more help than they do?
Two in Torquay
A middle-aged man and a middle-aged woman engage in polite conversation in a hotel on the Cornish Riviera. But neither is quite who they appear to be. Who is deceiving whom?
Amusing, ironic and affectionate, these three adaptations feature Hugh Lloyd, Patricia Routledge, Judi Dench, Thora Hird, Brian Wilde, Imelda Staunton and Alan Bennett himself.
July 26, 2007
Doctor Who – Space Pirates Audio Book
Doctor Who – Space Pirates published by BBC Audiobooks Ltd.
“We’ve landed ourselves in the middle of some sort of war in Space!”
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe become victims of piracy when they materialise on a space beacon, minutes before it is literally blown to pieces. So begins their quest to be reunited with the TARDIS, whilst treading perilously across the paths of the Interstella Space Corps and a gang of murderous bandits.
The eccentric prospector Milo Clancey gives the travellers passage in his ageing spaceship but the old man is himself the focus of Space Corps investigations. Could he possibly be behind the destruction and salvage of so many beacons in the sector? What is the position of Madeleine Issigri, who runs her father’s mining corporation or the planet Ta – and how might a locked room provide the answer to this mystery?
Half the galaxy is spanned in a game of cat and mouse between the law enforcers – led by no-nonsense General Hermack and his V-Ship crew – and the pirates Caven and Dervish, who will apparently stop at nothing to continue their lucrative racket.
This six-part adventure, brimming with visions of space travel in the 21st century, offers excitement on a grand scale and was the penultimate story of the second Doctor’s TV era.
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