Category Archives: Audio Drama/Radio Plays

The Diary Of River Song: Series Four. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alex Kingston, Tom Baker, Nigel Anthony, Nicholas Asbury, George Asbury, Ewan Bailey, Timothy Bentinck, Josh Bolt, Nathalie Buscombe, Adele Lynch, Shvorne Marks, Christopher Naylor, Alex Tregear, Fenella Woolgar.

Time may be a plenty, but do you ever wonder where certain memories go, why you are sure that something happened once, only to find that it didn’t happen at all, that empty space seems to have opened up around you and it seems that all Hell has broken loose because of the disappearance of Time itself, then perhaps, just maybe, you need a Doctor more than ever.

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(452 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

The Diary Of River Song: Series Three. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alex Kingston, Peter Davison, Frances Barber, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Sophia Carr-Gomm, Ian Conningham, Jonathan Coote, Julia Hills, Joanna Horton, Teddy Kempner, Rosanna Miles, Leighton Pugh, Nina Toussaint-White, Issy Van Randwyck, Francesca Zoutewelle.

What a Time it was and a time we had, but ultimately if you are not prepared to concentrate on all that time can offer, then it is likely to take advantage of you and send your mind to a place where it is reeling, unsure of what just happened, floundering at the prospect of how to respond, and watching inertly as the flow of Time passes you by.

The Diary Of River Song: Series Three. Audio Drama Review. full post

(475 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

The Diary Of River Song; Series Two. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Alex Kingston, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Sam Alexander, Justin Avoth, Ann Bell, Jessie Buckley, Alan Cox, Barnaby Edwards, Salome Haertel, Robert Hands, Paul Keating, Anna Maxwell Martin, Aaron Neil, Sara Powell, Robert Pugh, Gemma Saunders, Dan Starkey.

Short of Time and a world to save, as all good adventures are, the story is one that is complicated, that requires bravery, and the sadness of sacrifice; and yet with two doctors to play with, the eminent archaeologist and former psychopath, River Song, has The Unknown to deal with, and it is to be thanked she is able to find the Time.

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(479 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

The Diary Of River Song: Signs. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alex Kingston, Samuel West.

A man of many faces can be found almost anywhere, especially in Time. The problem is, if you are not aware of the faces to come, you can be sucked into a world of deceit and pain; you might even find yourself living Time over and over again, and all because you haven’t learned to learn one important lesson.

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(462 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

The Diary Of River Song: I Went To A Marvellous Party. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alex Kingston, Alexander Vlahos, Alexander Siddig, Imogen Stubbs, John Voce, Letty Butler, Samuel West, John Banks, Aaron Neil.

Murder has to be inventive to keep the interest of those who delight in such anarchy, however, the reasons for murder have become entangled in reasons to which have become ever murkier, more salient, less transparent as they have ever been. It is no longer enough to kill a character on the basis of greed, gain or for the love of someone, now there must be complexity, there must be retribution for the act in which the victim surely deserves to die. It is in this realm of vengeance that the merest sleight becomes weaponised, the act of ecocide is met with the fullest support of death to the perpetrator by all concerned. It is no longer enough to see someone brought to justice, tried by a jury, now there must be blood.

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(528 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

The Diary Of River Song: The Boundless Sea. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alex Kingston, John Banks, Charlotte Christie, Oliver Dimsdale, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Alexander Vlahos.

One of the peculiarities of long running television serials is that inevitably there will be a character thrust into the limelight to whom the viewers in their masses will take too and demand more of, even perhaps at the expense of the main person to whom the story revolves around.

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(536 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: Wall Of Darkness. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Louise Jameson, Ian Hallard, Robert Maloney, Timothy Watson, Joannah Tincey.

It is with good reason that as a species are both repelled and somehow fascinated by the threat of nuclear war; there is after all no middle ground when it comes to the shadow that has loomed large over us since the reports and pictures came from Japan of the first explosions over Nagasaki and Hiroshima. We are caught in the fire of expectant and imminent death, so much so that until the threat is finally dismantled and the last remains of the sickness that guides the ultimate force of humanity’s desire for destruction is a long distant memory, we shall forever be enthralled by what damage it can cause to our planet.

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(459 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: Zero. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, David Collings, Mark Gatiss, Angela Bruce.

Time is forever decaying, what might be considered a moment of absolute endeavour by humanity in one moment, slowly erodes to the point where all that follows becomes ordinary, routine, and then, like everything that was once painstakingly spectacular becomes mundane, predictable, safe.

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(495 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: Remember Me. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Sam Kelly, Joannah Tincey, David Horovitch.

Our greatest curse as a human being is surely that of nostalgia, the memory we wrap in gold and sepia, the melancholy we hold up as the epitome of our life on Earth; doomed to go over the lines forever, condemned by the failures of our time, nostalgia in all its forms is the blissful high before the regretful and terminal low.

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(413 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: Second Sight. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Blair McDonough, Anna Skellern, Lisa Bowerman, Patience Tomlinson, Clare Calbraith, Duncan McInnes, Angela Bruce, David Warner, Susannah Harker.

Change, even in the art of the bluff, can be one that leaves a chill ready to descend down the spine, the sense that the transformation you are about to encounter is going to be too much to either bare, or which will leave you with feelings of disappointment wrapped up in the embrace of the immediate let down.

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(415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)