What 'WHO Are You Currently Listening to?

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

Almost finished Shada - I've been whizzing through it whilst working and am at the end of disc 9 - it's been really good! More Lalla audiobooks please!

[Stuart Wallis]

although it does sag a little in the middle.

I know the feeling...

[Anthony Williams]

I'm currently listening my way through Loups-Garoux for the very first time!

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

Having a Graceless afternoon in the company of the tracer twins Amy, sorry, Abby and Zara... despite being a spin-off from the disappointing Key2Time trilogy the first one part of this, The Sphere was surprisingly good, listening to the second part The Fog which has David Warner in it

[SiHart]

I am listening to The Faceless Ones.

[Anthony Williams]

I did both Primeval and The One Doctor yesterday. I suspect that my reviews are going to go against conventional opinions on both of them!

[Dave Tudor]

I made a rather nice bolognese pasta bake this afternoon while listening to the new CD re-issue of the LP version of 'Genesis of the Daleks'. I've never heard this before, and what struck me was that, as great as the TV version is, the story is just as compelling with more than half of it missing. In the days before videos, the record must have been quite a treat for fans in 1979.

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

Did the final part of Graceless (damn cliffhanger ending stealing one of my ideas for a future Planet Skaro audio which I'm still going to use anyway and forcing me to want to buy Graceless II now) and the first CD of Torchwood: Department X, Kai Owen reads the other characters very well although I'm looking forward to hearing Ghost Train next which actually has Rhys in it.

[SiHart]

I made a rather nice bolognese pasta bake this afternoon while listening to the new CD re-issue of the LP version of 'Genesis of the Daleks'. I've never heard this before, and what struck me was that, as great as the TV version is, the story is just as compelling with more than half of it missing. In the days before videos, the record must have been quite a treat for fans in 1979.

It still feels like the proper version to me, narration and all. I bought it with my birthday money in 1981 asnd listened to it until the tape snapped... and then I bought anew copy when it was re-released with Slipback and listened to it a lot again!

"I stepped from the TARDIS onto a bleak planet. All around the ground was ravaged, no vegetation. Banks of chilling fog swirling through the air. Why had I been brought here?"

"...seated in a self-powered wheelchair, not unlike the base of a Dalek..."

"With bullets whistling round them, Sarah and Sevrin climbed higher and higher..."

"On the way back to the Bunker, a happy meeting took place."

Wonderful stuff!

[Anthony Williams]

I did Invaders from Mars yesterday, and will be doing The Chimes of Midnight this morning!

[Nyder]

"Davros was becoming insanely excited by his plan".

"As Nyder moved across to the control panel, a Dalek swung round"

Yep I was brought up on the Genesis album too!!

[Stuart Wallis]

"Davros was becoming insanely excited by his plan".

Which takes us back to what he's doing with his other han - no, let's not go there!

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

Ploughing on with the second story in the Bernice Summerfield Road Trip boxset - Bad Habits - which features one of the worst CD covers Big Finish have ever produced and in which Bernice and Ruth find themselves in a nunnery being run by Sylvia Noble and apparently H from Steps is in it too!

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

Now onto the final part of this trilogy - Paradise Frost guest cast including India Fisher, Arthur Darvill (!) and Rhys the barman from The Archers as a Killoran

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

Doctor Who The Essential Companion - my God The Eleventh Hour sounds fantastic on audio!

[SiHart]

We did some Target Audios on holiday. First up was Daleks: The Chase, which was wonderful. Maureen O'Brien was a wonderful narrator, the book was good and Nick Briggs as good as ever.

Second was The Twin Dilemma. Eric Saward is not Douglas Adams, the digressions from the story were annoying rather than clever and listening to it in this form really reinforced how much theyb got wrong with the start of the 6th Doctor. The strangling was really nasty. Colin Baker was a fine reader, but there are better out there.

Paradise Towers was fab! Bonnie was an awesome narrator- her voices were fabby, even the dodgy McCoy grew on me as the audio progressed. Nicely, crisply written and one of the highlights of the entire range (unless disc 4 stinks as we haven't heard that one yet!)

[Si Hunt]

Her Spriggs is uncanny, so I suspect she did some research!

Si.

[SiHart]

Yeah we thought so too!

[Stuart Wallis]

even the dodgy McCoy grew on me

Anyone who hasn't got used to him after a quarter of a century in the part never will!

Ah...

[Nyder]

I first read that as "even the dodgy McCow grew on me". Well it had to happen eventually :-)

[Si Hunt]

And I read it as Doggy McCow growled at me.

What can it mean? Woof!

Si.

[SiHart]

"The TARDIS is on strings..."

[Rob McCow]

He got there in the end!

[Si Hunt]

I'm listening to "The Sensorites", a lovely spooky tale read by William Russell. Very atmospheric!

Si.

[Stuart Wallis]

I first read that as "even the dodgy McCow grew on me".

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