Author Archive: SueDavies
Bernice Summerfield: Legion Box Set by Tony Lee, Scott Handcock and Miles Richardson (CD audio review).
It’s been a long journey to a new home. Finally on ‘Legion’, Bernice Summerfield’s welcome was not what she expected. Irving isn’t the man he was. Her son, Peter, (Thomas Grant) now the head of security on the domed city of Legion, is bitter and he’s had four years to learn to hate his mother [...]
Doctor Who: Destiny Of The Doctor 4: Babblesphere by Jonathan Morris (CD audio review).
In a world of news, views and inanity, it was only a matter of time that social media got its own story. ‘Babblesphere’ is just that with a dig at Twitter and all the other trivia we exist on. In ‘Babblesphere’, we find out what happens in a world where you object to that social [...]
Doctor Who: The Seeds Of War by Matt Fitton and Nicholas Briggs (CD audio review).
‘The Seeds Of War’ introduces a major enemy that will continue to feature in stories about various incarnations of the Doctor. Written by Matt Fitton, sitting at the knee of Nick Briggs, ‘The Seeds Of War’ jumps to four different locations to tell a broad tale about the end of a war and the beginning [...]
Alfred Hitchcock In His Own Words (CD audio review).
This short CD contains snippets of Alfred Hitchcock material from the BBC archive. May of these you might have heard before. Its release is really down to the amount of Hitchcock interest there is at the moment with both the Antony Hopkins latex fest and the more downbeat Toby Jones portrayal on general release. Such [...]
Doctor Who And The Tomb of the Cybermen by Gerry Davis (CD audio review).
If you think the Cybermen are a bit nonsensical these days then you need to take yourself back to the classics. Take ‘Tomb Of The Cybermen’ for instance. Forget the costumes in the TV version of these as they were working with limited budgets and realisation is harder than you think. Menace and intent is [...]
Doctor Who: The Aztecs by John Lucarotti (CD review).
When the First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara arrive inside a tomb in ‘The Aztecs’, the Doctor is concerned that they don’t meddle with history. But from the moment Barbara picks up an attractive bracelet, they are in a bit of a pickle. Barbara is mistaken for a living goddess and their return to the [...]
Doctor Who Companion Chronicles: The Scorchies by James Goss (audio-book review).
If you have a penchant for the musical episode of ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ and the puppet show story in ‘Angel’ then ‘The Scorchies Companion Chronicle’ along with memories of BBC’s ‘Play School’ and other disturbing childhood programmes will tickle your trombone. ‘The Scorchies’ is a little twist on the usual ‘Chronicles’ in which Third [...]
Destiny Of The Doctor 3: Vengeance Of The Stones by Andrew Smith (audio-book review).
As we enter the world of the Third Doctor, this story decides to take a turning point in the history of ‘Doctor Who’ to focus on. With such a rich history to choose from, it is a nice touch to pick up on how UNIT and its individual members were an integral part of the [...]
The Express Diaries by Nick Marsh (book review).
‘The Express Diaries’ is the latest novel from vet writer Nick Marsh, who combines a love of treating animals with a bizarre imagination and the downright weird. As our adventure opens in 1925, we receive brief bios of the main characters and a wraparound fiction of this being based on certain diaries and newspaper cuttings [...]
Doctor Who: The Talons Of Weng Chiang by Terrance Dicks (CD audio-book review).
Long before Jago & Litefoot took it upon themselves to become an investigative pair, they both had separate and fairly normal lives in Victorian England. If they hadn’t met the Doctor, it would have remained ordinary enough. They hadn’t even met at the opening of ‘The Talons Of Weng Chiang’ but, by the end, they [...]
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