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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2020 21:36:12 GMT
The Legend of Springheel'd Jack - episodes 1, 2 and 3.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2020 19:18:31 GMT
Working through the finale of the Springheel'd saga - The Secret of Springheel'd Jack - episodes 1, 2 and 3.
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Post by number13 on Aug 16, 2020 12:25:18 GMT
A lot of the later The Scarifyers, all excellent of course and still so much fun after however many listens you like.
Including 'The Horror of Loch Ness' and 'The Thirteen Hallows' which are both simply magnificent and imo the best of the Dunning/Crow era - so far... (I wait in hope for more!)
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Post by number13 on Aug 19, 2020 12:23:11 GMT
Finished my 'Scarifyers' run-through with 'The Gnomes of Death' and then 'For King and Country', which I saved for last to go out with their most *serious story, Gabriel Woolf as a chilling villain of a style unique in the range - and Nicholas Courtney's heroic Lionheart in his finest hour!
{* Spoiler} As serious as any story can be with a splendidly vulgar Cromwell (just the head bit) and a bus-load of reanimated 'skellingtons' on the rampage!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2020 14:51:14 GMT
BBC Audio's The Sea Devils soundtrack.
I've been wanting to watch this for ages but never found the time - so the audio version is the next best thing. At the time I was puzzled why they were releasing soundtracks to colour stories, before they had finished with the black-and-white ones (I was still naively hoping for a complete audio Who catalogue) but now I'm glad they did. I love this story, the scale of it, the music, the regulars, the fact that UNIT weren't in it (no offence to them, but they don't have to be in every story, great though they were) and of course the villains - Roger Delgado's silky smooth version of The Master and the wonderful, wonderful Sea Devils. And Trenchard too!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2020 16:13:32 GMT
BBC Audio's The Sea Devils soundtrack.
I've been wanting to watch this for ages but never found the time - so the audio version is the next best thing. At the time I was puzzled why they were releasing soundtracks to colour stories, before they had finished with the black-and-white ones (I was still naively hoping for a complete audio Who catalogue) but now I'm glad they did. I love this story, the scale of it, the music, the regulars, the fact that UNIT weren't in it (no offence to them, but they don't have to be in every story, great though they were) and of course the villains - Roger Delgado's silky smooth version of The Master and the wonderful, wonderful Sea Devils. And Trenchard too!
And of course the historic Sea Fort featured is currently for sale (refurbished), as a 'job lot of 3', for just £9M. For context, overseas posters, that's the price of a nice London townhouse these days..... www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-hampshire-53838761
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Post by melkur on Sept 2, 2020 19:03:57 GMT
Over the past couple of weeks I've been listening to the "We're Alive" podcast series (I'll be finishing series 2 during my walk into town tomorrow). Whilst I wouldn't say that it's been a 'favourite' listen serial-wise, I've been enjoying it ok.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Oct 4, 2020 18:13:09 GMT
Dark Adventure Radio Theatre's 7 hour(!) epic Masks of Nyarlathotep.
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It's tangerine....not orange
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Post by ljwilson on Oct 5, 2020 9:11:33 GMT
Dark Adventure Radio Theatre's 7 hour(!) epic Masks of Nyarlathotep. Report back with your thoughts on it, I'd like to get it at some point.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Oct 18, 2020 20:56:02 GMT
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Oct 18, 2020 23:29:02 GMT
"The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy/ "Restaurant At The End Of The Universe" on cd, finally released on cd as of 2 weeks ago. Immediately takes me back to 1988 hearing it for the 1st time and having my existential teenage mind blown LOL! I really really .. REALLY cannot wait to introduce this genuius story to my boy when he is about 10ish..
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Nov 21, 2020 20:41:01 GMT
The Scarifyers: The Devil of Denge Marsh
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Post by kurumais on Dec 14, 2020 12:31:06 GMT
pilgrim's new halloween play
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Post by The Brigadier on Dec 19, 2020 8:36:39 GMT
Starting the day with The Scarifyers : The Secret Weapon Of Doom...😁
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Post by ljwilson on Dec 24, 2020 19:09:22 GMT
Someone recommended on here 'The Harrowing' - an 8-part full cast drama which is free as a podcast (I subscribed via Podkicker). I'm exactly half way through.
Quick synopsis - A once-in-a-century storm hits the remote Scottish island of Toll Mòr. As the isolated community take shelter, police officer Jackie O'Mara investigates a barbaric crime which sets off a chain of events which heralds the rise of an ancient evil.
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Post by number13 on Dec 28, 2020 14:20:34 GMT
BBC audiobook of Marco Polo
It's become a personal Christmas week tradition that I start each day by listening to some chapters of a 'Doctor Who' novel audiobook and this year two historicals are on my list. First up, the definitive 'epic' historical, told on a scale of terrestrial time and space unique in classic Who.
Zienia Merton's reading is a real pleasure to listen to and the music and sound effects well-chosen, as the long, long journey of the TARDIS and her crew gradually unfolds from the high plain of Pamir, across the Gobi desert, down into lush farmland and bamboo forests, through way-stations, villages and towns to the Khan's palace and his throne room at the very heart of Cathay.
I love the sense of journey in John Lucarotti’s story, and taken at audiobook pace it comes across very well indeed. There are the usual 'historical' twists and turns, separation and reunions, their troubled relationship with Marco - a good man who knows he's doing them wrong - and the personal story of Ping-Cho told through her friendship with Susan. And as all roads lead to Peking, with the humour of the Doctor and Kublai's friendship making a fun and unexpected way to spend the last quarter of the book, so all the threads of the story weave neatly together into the ending that is more traditional and less rushed than in the TV original.
And that delightful final twist into modern times with the TARDIS key – "The Key to the World".
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2020 17:22:43 GMT
ED Reardons Week-BBC
something I knew nothing of but was directed to by a member and I do love it my kind of humour
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2020 18:27:16 GMT
BBC RADIO4- Collection-PD JAMES-The Skull Beneath The Skin -Dramatisation
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Post by number13 on Feb 2, 2021 11:56:45 GMT
The Roundheads
Excellent audiobook of Mark Gatiss' historical epic set just after the Civil War. Anneke Wills brings it to life with her usual splendid performance, all the voices & characters so well defined which matters a lot in this sort of story where there are many characters and all human. (All except one, of course! ) Very good sound design too for the world of olde London and Amsterdam, ships on a stormy sea and so on.
This sort of story is just my cup of tea / flagon of ale so I expected to enjoy it and I did, very much. It neatly fits into the real history with some well-imagined changes that might have been and we'd never have known, would we? You can't change history (sometimes ) but you can embellish it and that's what this does, warts and all.
One thing that did occur to me: Jamie is perhaps a little too detached from his own recent history to be believable, but the story would have got very complicated if he had fully realised he was helping to undermine the royal line of which he was one of the very last loyal supporters, a century later. There might have been a 'civil war' in the TARDIS crew! So the Doctor was lucky here that Jamie was happy to go along with keeping history on track. (Next time they ran into the fall-out of the Civil War in 'The Glorious Revolution', it did become very complicated. In retrospect the two stories work very well as a sequence.)
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Feb 5, 2021 0:08:11 GMT
Timothy West reading Phineas Finn, the 2nd of Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels
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