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"Doctor Who": Hornets' Nest: Hive of Horror v. 5 (BBC Audio) [Audiobook] (Audio CD)


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  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd (3 Dec 2009)
  • ISBN-10: 1408426773
  • ISBN-13: 978-1408426777
  • Product Dimensions: 14 x 12.4 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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As a new day breaks over Nest Cottage, the Doctor and Mike know they have to face their enemy for a final confrontation. Reduced to miniature size, and with Mrs Wibbsey along as an unwilling adventurer, they venture inside the hornets' nest itself. The Queen lies in wait for the enemy which she and her brood have faced so many times over the millennia. If she is to guarantee the survival of her alien hornet race for another thousand years, this is a battle she must win! The loyalty of the Doctor's friends will be tested to the limit. And perhaps, at last, they will all understand why Mike Yates is so important...With Tom Baker as the Doctor, Richard Franklin as Mike Yates, Susan Jameson as Mrs Wibbsey and Rula Lenska as the Queen, "Hive of Horror" is the fifth of five linked stories written by the acclaimed Paul Magrs.

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars As good as it got, 11 Dec 2009
By catfordvi (Forest Hill, London) - See all my reviews
This final installment of Hornet's Nest is as strong an ending as one could hope for. The author captures the style of climax remembered from the glory days of the television series in the 1970s; penetration of the enemy's lair, a good deal of taunting and bravado from the Doctor, a final appeal to his adversary to go in peace before the villain's vanquishment leads to an ebullient sign off.

With each succeeding episode in the saga, Tom Baker more thoroughly recaptured his performance as The Doctor and in this installment his voice seems rejuvinated (he also delivers several cracking gags). Rula Lenska gives a wonderfully seductive performance as the Queen of the Hornets, reminiscent in tone of The Animus from The Web Planet.

Special mention must go to the sound effects with which the Hive is depicted in this episode; the atmospherics have a lovely subtle strangeness that works really beautifully with Lenska's sinister lilt.

A chief pleasure of these discs has been to rediscover how enormously Tom Baker's performance is the factor which gives Doctor Who so much of its energy. It's taken 25 years to find in David Tennant an actor with an equivalent capacity for jubilantly lighting the stories up. But Mr Baker has in addition to sheer energy an 'otherness' that Tennant lacks.

Having said that, his ability to illuminate even the dullest script has been tested once or twice. Circus of Doom (the third episode) is quite possibly the single least inventive Doctor Who story ever to go out from the BBC. The stories dependence on Baker for their life and liveliness is a testament to him but still I couldn't help wishing for something stronger and odder in the writing. Margs' deploys an appealing vocabulary and the good balance in his prose between clarity and verbosity has been a strength. Still the actual events described are sometimes fewer and simply thinner than one had hoped.

However, Margs and the team of actors and producers have delivered a faithful - if never original - addition to Baker's long line of Doctor Who adventures. The audience has been reunited with this greatest of Doctors and we might reasonably hope for further meetings in future.

Thanks to all for their efforts and for this late, unpredicted treat.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Well. . . erm. . . so. . ., 8 Dec 2009
By M. Edmonds (UK) - See all my reviews
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So. . . we reach the fifth and final chapter and join the Doctor, former Captain Mike Yates and formerly possessed housekeeper Mrs Wibsey as, miniaturised, they enter the ear canal of a stuffed zebra in pursuit of the Hornet Queen, armed only with a bag of aniseed balls and the ballet slipper of the late lamented Ernestina Stott. . .

All clear . . ?

On the plus side we have had five new adventures with Tom Baker, a return for the marvellous Richard Franklin and an attempt at doing something different.

In my view the problem lies with the stories and Paul Magrs' writing which lurches between the silly and the indifferent.

I really hope that the BBC commission a new series with Tom Baker and Richard Franklin - giving another writer a go might be a good idea though.

In truth I should only give this 2 stars - but for the fact that we can enjoy the company of Tom Baker's Dr once again I'll give it 4.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sputum, venom, pulp, and formaldehyde, 21 Dec 2009
By Barney McGrew "Charlie" (UK) - See all my reviews
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After four wonderful build up stories the climactic installment in Paul Magrs' Fourth Doctor saga has finally arrived. Whilst not quite as macabrely captivating as "Doctor Who": Hornets' Nest: Dead Shoes v. 2 (BBC Audio) this is still excellent, as Tom Baker's Time Lord, his grim housekeeper the exquisitely named Mrs Wibbsey, and Mike Franklin's redoubtable old soldier Captain Yates, take a journey into the unknown - in this case the inside of a stuffed zebra - in search of the Queen of the swarm, and a final battle with the deadly and insidious Hornets.

Baker is of course outstanding as the impishly arch Fourth Doctor, whilst Franklin, Rula Lenska, and Susan Jameson, provide first-rate support. With echoes of former adventures, and a trademark cavalier rush into danger, this is a complete, and utterly brilliantly bonkers culmination of a terrific series. We want more!
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