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Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon
Author: Brian Hayles
Format: Online
Author Brian Hayles
Narrator Jon Pertwee
Duration 1h 15m
On its way back to Earth, the Tardis crash lands on Peladon where strange and violent incidents are threatening to disrupt a conference between visiting delegates from the Galactic Federation and Peladon's King. Is this the feared curse of Peladon and will it force a galactic war?
View BookJourney Into Space - Operation Luna
Author: Charles Chilton
Format: Online
Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 8h
The first series of 'Journey Into Space', originally broadcast in the 1950s and set in the then futuristic 1965. It tells of the conquest of the moon by Jet Morgan and his crew Doc, Mitch and Lemmy.
View BookAuthor: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Richard Mitchley
Duration 4h 7m
The first book in the Johnny Maxwell series. 12-year-old Johnny loves playing the computer game `Only You Can Save Mankind' where he has to save mankind from the alien hordes, but the aliens aren't so happy. When they get killed off they really die, so the alien Captain decides to take matters in her own hands, and surrenders. Suddenly Johnny finds...
View BookAuthor: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Richard Mitchley
Duration 3h 59m
Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can, and he's got bad news for them. The council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have learnt a thing or two from Johnny, and they're not going to take it lying down...especially since it's Halloween tomorrow. Besides, they're beginni...
View BookAuthor: Ursula le Guin
Format: Online
Author Ursula le Guin
Narrator Crispin Letts
Duration 7h
A classic tale of wizards, dragons and terrifying shadows. The young wizard Sparrowhawk, tempted by pride to try spells beyond his powers, lets loose an evil shadow-beast in his land. Only he can destroy it, and this quest leads him to the farthest corner of Earthsea.
View BookAuthor: John Wyndham
Format: Online
Author John Wyndham
Narrator Nathaniel Parker
Duration 6h 39m
The quiet English village of Midwich is the very last place that anything unusual ever happens. But one night in September something very strange occurs. The next day, no-one who lives there can remember anything about the day before. So what really went on, and why do all the women in the village suddenly find themselves in the same condition? Joh...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Paolini
Format: Online
Author Christopher Paolini
Narrator Gerard Doyle
SeriesInheritance Cycle, Book 1
Duration 16h 27m
When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he soon realises he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself when the stone brings forth a dragon hatchling. Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic and power. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old s...
View BookAuthor: Simon Messingham
Format: Online
Author Simon Messingham
Narrator David Tennant
Duration 2h 17m
When the Doctor arrives on Earth in the far future, he is horrified to find the planet beset by famine and starvation. England is a barren wasteland, and scientists are desperately seeding the ground to make the crops grow again. But now it seems that something even worse is happening. Karl Baring, the owner of research facility The Grange, has bee...
View BookAuthor: Paul Magrs
Format: Online
Author Paul Magrs
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesDoctor Who Hornet's Nest, Book 2
Duration 1h 4m
Visiting the English seaside town of Cromer in the summer of 1932, the Doctor happens upon the strange world of the Cromer Palace of Curios. The young Ernestina Scott is unusually beguiled by one of the museum's exhibits, and when the Doctor befriends her, they unwittingly embark upon a terrifying escapade. Chased by animated dolls through a nightm...
View BookAuthor: Simon Messingham
Format: Online
Author Simon Messingham
Narrator Russell Tovey
Duration 2h 23m
Sebastiene was human...once. He might look like a nineteenth-century nobleman, but in truth he is a ruthless hunter. He likes nothing more than luring difficult opposition to a planet, and then hunting them down for sport. And now he's caught them all - from Zargregs to Moogs, and even the odd Eternal. In fact, Sebastiene is after only one more pri...
View BookAuthor: Barry Letts
Format: Online
Author Barry Letts
Narrator Barry Letts
Duration 5h 58m
Doctor Who is strangely concerned about Professor Horner's plan to cut open an ancient barrow near the peaceful English village of Devil's End; equally worried is Miss Hawthorne, the local white witch, who foretells a terrible disaster if he goes ahead. Determined that the Professor should is Mr Magister, the new vicar whose secret ceremonies are d...
View BookDoctor Who and the Masque of Mandragora
Author: Phillip Hinchcliffe
Format: Online
Author Phillip Hinchcliffe
Narrator Tim Pigott-Smith
Duration 3h 38m
Forced off course by the Mandragora Helix, the TARDIS lands in the province of San Martino in fifteenth-century Italy. Here, the court astrologer, Hieronymous, has been taken over by the Mandragora energy-form - Hieronymous and the other members of his star-worshipping black magic cult will be used as a bridgehead, enabling the Mandragora Helix to...
View BookAuthor: Malcolm Hulke
Format: Online
Author Malcolm Hulke
Narrator Geoffrey Beevers
Duration 4h 11m
The year is 2540, and two powers loom large in the Galaxy - Earth and Draconia. After years of peace, their spaceships are now being mysteriously attacked and cargoes rifled. Each suspects the other, and full-scale war seems unavoidable. The Doctor, accused of being a Draconian spy, is thrown into prison. And only when the Master appears on the sce...
View BookAuthor: Malcolm Hulke
Format: Online
Author Malcolm Hulke
Narrator David Troughton
Duration 4h 54m
Mud, barbed wire, the smell of death...The year is 1917 and the TARDIS has materialised on the Western Front during the First World War. Or has it? For very soon the Doctor finds himself pursued by the soldiers of Ancient Rome; and then he and his companions are reliving the American Civil War of 1863. And is this really Earth, or just a mock-up cr...
View BookAuthor: Robert Holmes
Format: Online
Author Robert Holmes
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 53m
Patrick Troughton stars as the Doctor in the soundtrack of this classic TV story from 1968, in which he finds the humanoid Gonds enslaved by the monstrous, crystalline Krotons. Along with his companions, Jamie and Zoe, the Doctor befriends the Gonds and enters the lair of their enemies. Can he halt the years of tyrrany and also escape with his life...
View BookAuthor: James Follett
Format: Online
Author James Follett
Narrator Various
Duration 9h 39m
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 to wide acclaim, Earthsearch is set in the far future and concerns Earth's sole survivors, now living on the massive Challenger starship but longing to return to the home they have never known. Their problems arise when it transpires that the planet Earth has disappeared...
View BookAuthor: Lance Parkin
Format: Online
Author Lance Parkin
Narrator Russell Tovey
Duration 2h 33m
At the heart of the ruined city of Arcopolis is the Fortress. It's a brutal structure placed here by one of the sides in a devastating intergalactic war that's long ended. Fifteen years ago, the entire population of the planet was killed in an instant by the weapon housed in the heart of the Fortress. Now only the ghosts remain. The Doctor arrives,...
View BookAuthor: Mark Morris
Format: Online
Author Mark Morris
Narrator Will Thorp
Duration 2h 12m
Will Thorp reads this spine-chilling story of monsters, mystery and a magical spellbook. It is almost Halloween in the sleepy New England town of Blackwood Falls. Paper skeletons hang in windows and carved pumpkins leer from porches. The Doctor and Martha soon discover that this will be no ordinary Halloween. What is the secret of the ancient tree...
View BookDoctor Who: The Forgotten Army
Author: Brian Minchin
Format: Online
Author Brian Minchin
Narrator Olivia Colman
Duration 4h 17m
Let me tell you a story. Long ago, in the frozen Arctic wastes, an alien army landed. Only now, 10,000 years later, it isn't a story. And the army is ready to attack. New York is one of the greatest cities on 21st century Earth...But what's going on in the Museum? And is that really a Woolly Mammoth rampaging down Broadway? An ordinary day becomes...
View BookAuthor: Naomi A Alderman
Format: Online
Author Naomi A Alderman
Narrator Meera Syal
Duration 6h 4m
Andrew Brown never has enough time. No time to call his sister, or to prepare for that important presentation at the bank where he works. The train's late, the lift jams. If only he'd had just a little more time. And time is the business of Mr Symington and Mr Blenkinsop. They'll lend him some - at a very reasonable rate of interest. Detecting a p...
View BookDoctor Who: The Deviant Strain
Author: Justin Richards
Format: Online
Author Justin Richards
Narrator Stuart Milligan
Duration 6h 3m
Stuart Milligan reads this thrilling adventure featuring the Ninth Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack. The Novrosk Peninsula: the Soviet naval base has been abandoned, the nuclear submarines are rusting and rotting. Cold, isolated, forgotten. Until the Russian Special Forces arrive - and discover that the Doctor and his companions are here too. But ther...
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