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Well, this category is about books. Not just reading, but often for me, listening, as I do love audiobooks a lot. Although you can probably tell that by now.
Today’s Doctor Who story was the second episode from the first series. A story called the renaissance man. I remember this, well, a bit anyway, but not in any detail, so it was wonderful to listen to it again today. It’s a completely awesome story. With a superb cast and what is in fact a very complex and deep plot.
It was like hearing the story for the first time. So tomorrow I’m on to the next story in season 1.
I first listened to this story in January 2012. It is the first story that Tom Baker did for Big Finish productions, so it’s kind of a milestone, and not only that, it’s actually a lovely story too. It picks up directly after The Talons of Weng Chiang, which is arguably one of the best Doctor Who stories ever, so an excellent place to start in my opinion.
The story is set on the Nerva dock, which is of course the same as the Nerva Beacon, a location that crops up many times in Doctor Who. The cast is excellent, the action and the story are a joy. It’s a great way to have started his audio stories on Big Finish, and it’s lovely to listen to them again whilst I wait for the season 3 episodes to arrive every month. I think I may have to run through the whole season now that I’ve started.
I only listened to this quite recently, but I just downloaded it and with the download came some very nice artwork, so I thought I’d share it.
Another good story from the liberator chronicles. In keeping with the original stories and quite a lot of fun to listen to. I really should get the other box sets at some point too.
The Liberator Chronicles are good stories, and I’ve been enjoying listening to these again, but if there’s one thing I don’t like about them, it’s that these stories aren’t full cast dramas. I suppose that this is simply because I’ve recently listened to the latest Blake’s 7 story ‘Fractures’, which was a full cast drama and which is really good.
Anyway, the chronicles are very good, and I should probably get the rest of them at some point.
Well Dark Eyes was excellent. A great story, a great cast and fantastic performances. So, yet another good show from Big Finish. They output is of a consistently high quality. Bring on Dark Eyes 2!
More excellence in this story for the eighth doctor. I’d quite forgotten how great it was. It makes me look forward to Dark Eyes 2 even more.
Dark Eyes Fugitives is just as good as the Great War episode. I really had forgotten how good this story was. It’s made me look forward to Darks Eyes 2 even more.
As I’ve just watched the entire 5 seasons of Primeval (more about that another time) it was interesting to notice that the voice of Molly in this 8th Doctor story was Ruth Bradley, who was in the last few episodes of Primeval. This first part of dark eyes is a great set up for the story, and even though I’ve heard it once before I’m really enjoying it. Paul McGann is such an unsung hero of the Doctor Who world. I personally think that his audio stories are simply excellent, and dark eyes is up there with the best he’s done.
So I’m looking forward even more to dark eyes 2 which is coming in the not too distant future, and also finishing listening to this story soon as well.
This is a great story. A true Blake’s 7 original, just like the episodes. I really enjoyed it even though I’ve heard it before, and of course it’s made me think that I should listen to more of the back catalogue now.
I think I probably will.
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