Category Archives: Audio Drama/Radio Plays

The War Master: Only The Good. Series One. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Derek Jacobi, Jonny Green, Nicholas Briggs, Rachel Atkins, Jonathan Bailey, Hannah Barker, Robert Daws, Jacob Dudman, Mark Elstob, Nerys Hughes, Jacqueline King, Deidre Mullins.

What is a hero without their counterpoint, after all they come from the same stock, the same blood runs through their veins, it is only reasonable to assume that without the supposed hero running through their lives, that they too have adventures in which are just as remarkable, just as defining as those we come to seek from the protagonist we hope will save the day, and perhaps our souls at the same time.

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(654 words, estimated 2:37 mins reading time)

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Alex Kingston, Charles Armstrong, Annette Badland, Timothy Blore, Aurora Burghart, Annabelle Dowler, Daniel Easton, Jaye Griffiths, Clive Hayward, Paul Heath, Janet Henfrey, Glen McCready, Wanda Opalinska, David Rintoul, Issy Van Randwyck, Robert Whitelock.

A life without seeing the Doctor, it is a dream of many, to avoid the consultation rooms, to sidestep having to sit next to the person with the queasy cough from spluttering their germs over you, to steer clear of the condescending questions that ask everything except how you truly are; the truth though is that at some point we need the Doctor, we understand that a niggle today can be a serious condition tomorrow.

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

(469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alex Kingston, Claudia Grant, Jamie Glover, Jemma Powell, Ralph Watson, Christopher Benjamin, Owen Aaronovitch, Guy Adams, Samuel Clemens, John Paul Connolly, Edward Dede, Kathryn Dysdale, Nicholas Goh, Lizzie Stables, Dan Starkey, Mandi Symonds, Milly Thomas, Clive Wood, Angus Wright, David Bradley.

The problem with time travel is you never quite know where you are going to land in someone else’s story. Land after the climatic event, or even during, and you can be of a help, you can even tell those around you who you are, but land a day or two before, appear out of thin air and you have to live a lie, do you let history play out, or do you save one person, save a village, from the disaster that is about to befall them.

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

(608 words, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Alex Kingston, Michelle Gomez, Geoffrey Beevers, Eric Roberts, Derek Jacobi, Delroy Atkinson, Sasha Behar, Orion Ben, Timothy Blore, Richenda Carey, Eleanor Crooks, Andrew Fettes, Fiona Hampton, Lucy Heath, Laurence Kennedy, Jaqueline King, Christopher Naylor, Himesh Patel, Tom Price, Vineeta Rishi, Emily Woodward.

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

(486 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

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.

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

(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.

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

(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.

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

(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.

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

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