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I do like audio books.
I listened to this 8th Doctor story yesterday and I can say that it is excellent. A great idea for a story, funny and really well played. It has a great cast and took some great turns in the story that I didn’t expect at all.
I’d thoroughly recommend it to anyone.
I listened to this CD today. It is the first episode of season 4 of the 8th Doctor. Overall not a bad story, by no means the best, but pretty significant in many any other ways!
I’m still enjoying the 8th Doctor series of stories, there’s some fantastic stuff in there. So I’m looking to the rest of season 4, and I’m hoping that there will be a season 5.
These are 2 8th Dr (Paul McGann) stories that I listened to recently. They are at the end of series 3 and they’re a two part story, and they were really good.
Some of the other series 3 stories didn’t really work for me, but these 2 were great fun, and sort of made up for it all. So I’m looking forward to moving on to series 4 soon.
I got to listen to this story again today. A great 2 part story with Paul McGann as the 8th Doctor. It was such a clever story with so many excellent ideas and a very good cast too.
I’ve really got back into these stories again in a big way and I think I’ll be getting some more again soon too.
This weekend I’ve managed to get some time to listen to more Dr Who audio CDs which is great. I started off with Scapegoat from season 3 of the 8th Doctor stories.
Scapegoat is a standard Dr Who story. What do I mean by that? Well, there’s no story arc that it is part of, there’s no real links to any creatures in the Who universe, it is just a story. In a way I like that, and in another I don’t.
On the one hand it is good just to get a simple story out there and hear it and that’s it. On the other hand I do like the big story arc and so when there’s a story that doesn’t really move it on it can feel like it doesn’t contribute to the season as a whole. Having said all of that it was a good story and I did like it.
I’m listening to Harry Enfield play Dirk Gently in the dramatised audiobook at the moment. I didn’t have a proper point of reference for the character or story as my only introduction to it was via the BBC version that came out before Christmas last year.
I decided to give the audiobook a go and so far I’m not disappointed. The story is what I would expect from Douglas Adams, and it has made me chuckle a few times too. That is when I’m not getting lost in it.
Still it is quite fun and it has a good cast too.
I’ve been getting back into the 8th Doctor audio stories of late. I’d kind of fallen away from listening to them. That is, up until recently.
I’ve just bought another 5 8th Doctor CDs which should keep me busy for a little while at least. They only take me up to the end of season 3 so I have all of season 4 to look forward to now.
I finished listening to the latest Dr Who (Tom Baker) story, and even though the first episodes weren’t up to much, in the end I enjoyed it.
It is interesting to see (hear) how different the stories are from what gets onto the TV Dr Who. The latest audiobook is in 5 hour long parts. I don’t think that would work on TV these days. Of course, when Tom Baker was the Doctor you could have up to 8 or 9 25 minute episodes and that was completely acceptable.
I’m glad I’ve listened to these 2 new stories, and I think I’d buy the next one too if and when it comes out.
The only question remaining is, what to listen to next?
I finished listening to Alexei Sayle’s book “Stalin ate my homework”. I have to say I really liked it. It was at times funny, sad, thought provoking and insightful.
It is one of those books you wish there was more of when you get to the end of it. Even so it was a good place to stop. I especially liked that he read it himself. That added a great deal to the listening experience.
I think that some of it will stick in my mind for quite some time to come although my own childhood was nothing like his, but even so, there are things that resonated with me.
It was, it is, a great book.
This is a really contrived title I know, but I wanted to write something about getting close to the end of Alexei Sayle’s ‘Stalin Ate my Homework’.
I am so enjoying this book, which is much more coherent than ‘Great Bus Journeys of the World’, which I read a look time ago.
it is so good to hear him reading about his own life, and it is sad, funny and amazing all at once.
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