Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen fr...

Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany's oldest city. So when a man is found dead with, his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth. Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything. Enter Investigator Tobias Winter, whose aim is to get in, deal with the p...

The fifth and final episode of the second series of the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 27 December 2009. In Dark Star, Lioba floats alone in pitch darkness-where only Cerberus feels truly at home.

The fourth episode of series two of the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 20 December 2009. In Light City, Lioba and Kip are on the city streets where crime pays-until a vigilante appears.

Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him - but it's going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the King of the Northmen still stands firm, and there's only one man who can stop him. His oldest friend, and his oldest enemy. It's past time for the Bloody-Nine to come home. With too many masters and too little time, Superior...

The third episode of series two of the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 13 December 2009. In Paradise Hazard, Lioba and Kip find Happy Valley is virtually perfect with its lawns and birds.

Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It's bloody and dangerous, and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is unprepared for the slaughter that's coming. Lacking experience, training, and in some cases even weapons, the army is scarcely equipped to repel Bethod's scouts, let alone his elite forces. In th...

Episode two of the second series of the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 6 December 2009. In Make a Wish, Lioba's confused when Sinbad alludes to an armoured division.

Patrick Troughton's Doctor gets involved in galactic intrigue and piracy in this exclusive recording of a `lost' television adventure, with linking narration by Frazer Hines. 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 reunite...

Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers. Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing champion Captain Jezal dan Luthar is living a life of ease by cheating...

The first episode of the second series of the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 29 November 2009. This episode, The Tender Trap, sees Lioba (Tessa Nicholson) struggling to escape the grip of the corporation behind Planet B.

Picking up the tale of Kvothe Kingkiller once again, we follow him into exile, into political intrigue, courtship, adventure, love and magic...and further along the path that has turned Kvothe, the mightiest magician of his age, a legend in his own time, into Kote, the unassuming pub landlord.

The tenth and final episode of the first series of Matthew Broughton's 'Planet B', the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 13 March 2009. In Death's Door, John and Lioba aim to meet in the real world. But can they really escape their virtual reality?

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.

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the university at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, lov...

Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. You mess with it at your peril. You can let it move fast or slowly but what you mustn't do is allow it to stop. On the Discworld time management is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like the underwater - how much time does a codfish n...

The first episode of series one of Matthew Broughton's 'Planet B', the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 2 March 2009. Grieving for his girlfriend, John (Gunnar Cauthery) receives a shock in Golden Moments.

Tom lives in a perfect world: no war, no poverty, no under-ripe avocados. . . oh, and time travel. When he loses the love of his life, going back to fix it seems like the only answer. . . what could possibly go wrong? Elan Mastai's breakthrough novel brings a whole new dimension to a classic love story So, the thing is, I come from the world we wer...

The ninth and penultimate episode of the first series of Matthew Broughton's 'Planet B', the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 12 March 2009. Still stuck in a virtual world, it's John's last chance to save Lioba by navigating an escape path in The Fast Track.

Finding himself alone on a desert island when everything and everyone he knows and loved has been washed away in a huge storm, Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He's also completely alone - or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers like the grandfather bird and gives him a stick which...

The eighth episode of series one of Matthew Broughton's 'Planet B', the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 11 March 2009. In Retreat, John and Medley arrive in a strange religious retreat. Is it a cult or can it offer real enlightenment?