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"Doctor Who": Hornets' Nest: Sting in the Tale v. 4 (BBC Audio) [Audiobook] (Audio CD)


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  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd (3 Dec 2009)
  • ISBN-10: 1408426765
  • ISBN-13: 978-1408426760
  • Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 12.4 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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The Doctor arrives in a bleak English midwinter of long ago. Plunging into the snowy landscape of the Dark Ages, he learns that wild dogs besiege the local Tilling Abbey every night. When he is given shelter by the sisters of the abbey, the Doctor begs an audience with the Mother Superior they fiercely protect. Something unearthly has already happened here - and if the Doctor is right, it's connected to his recent encounters with an ancient enemy. As night falls again, the dogs can be held off no longer - and the sisters' secret is about to be revealed. Forced to draw his enemy off into the depths of the TARDIS, the Doctor finds himself in a nightmarish chase through his own ship - but is he the pursuer, or the pursued? As they fight him on his own ground, the hornets are determined to possess his mind...With Tom Baker as the Doctor, Richard Franklin as Mike Yates, Clare Corbett as the Nun, Susie Riddell as the Sister, Rula Lenska as the Swarm and Susan Jameson as Mrs Wibbsey, "A Sting in the Tale" is the fourth of five linked stories written by the acclaimed Paul Magrs.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The best episode so far, 30 Nov 2009
By catfordvi (Forest Hill, London) - See all my reviews
Happily, this fourth episode of the saga is as good as the excellent second part, The Dead Shoes. It also features Clare Corbett who paired so brilliantly with Tom Baker as the ballerina, Ernestina Stott. This time she appears in the Middle Ages as a Northumbrian nun.

The tone of The Tale is serious throughout. Unlike the disappointing Circus of Doom, though, the lack of jokes doesn't detract. Like The Dead Shoes, A Sting in the Tale is effectively a 2-part story and it doesn't therefore need the cast to try to 'pump it up' to compensate for the lack of variety.

This episode also has Tom Baker giving by far his most Doctor-ly performance yet - with little or none of the vocal mannerisms of the Little Britain narrator. It really feels as though he's recaptured his performance from the mid-1970s. The audio-only story The Pescatons is mentioned in an aside and Sting in the Tale really does have the tone of something that might have been made in 1976. Imagine one of the more intense episodes from Baker's early seasons as the Doctor and this would fit in fairly well.

The guest parts are all purposeful and nicely played. Many of the characters from previous episodes put in an appearance; Mrs Wibesy returns for a proper cliffhanger (which will lead clearly straight into the final episode). We also see the fateful meeting between the Hornets and Antonio the possessed dwarf from Circus of Doom. Richard Franklin's delightfully puzzled Mike Yates remains welcome if disappointingly peripheral. Rula Lenska's heavily modulated voice is used as The Swarm. Nice though her performance is, her casting is a slight distraction. It's hard quite to see the need for a 'name' actress for such a part when she is unrecognisable in it.

Comparisons are odious, I admit, but I continue to feel that more might actually happen in these stories. I'm enough of a fan to know and love all of Tom Baker's 1970s Doctor Who episodes. Each one of the Hornet's Nest discs is roughly the length of a 3 part TV adventure and yet the TV stories are magnificently more full of personality and incident, are more diverse. If there's to be a second series, I'd like to see another writer take a crack at them and a writer with a wider range than Paul Magrs.

Still, this is the first of the 4 installments that I'd recommend unhesitatingly to anyone who enjoys Doctor Who. It's a strong and odd and compelling tale. Just what was wanted. Bravo!
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3.0 out of 5 stars the warrior nuns of northumbria, 27 Dec 2009
By Paul Tapner (poole dorset england) - See all my reviews
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Fourth in the new series of talking books featuring tom baker playing the fourth doctor once again. Dont start with this one if you've not heard any, go back to "Doctor Who": Hornets' Nest: Stuff of Nightmares v. 1 (BBC Audio).

If you have heard them all then read on.

As with the last few in the series tom baker reads the bulk of the tale as narration, in the guise of the doctor telling it to mike yates. The disc runs for roughly an hour. Here he tells how the tardis visited northumbria in the middle ages during a very bleak winter and found a hornet infestation there. And how at a local abbey the nuns fought to protect their mother superior. Who is not quite like any ever before.

The narrative then takes the doctor into the tardis for a chase through the interior. and a confrontation with his foes that leads to...

the one big poroblem with an otherwise entertaining listen. you can see from halfway through exactly how it will end out. so it doesn't offer any surprises. A pity because the supporting cast are very good - the nuns having excellent regional accents and rula lenskas voice being very effectively modified to make her sound like a swarm leader - and both settings are very imaginative and well depicted.

Whilst tom baker really does get his teeth into this one there is perhaps a bit too much narration, and a bit more dialogue with supporting characters would have provided good breaks in the middle of it all. as good as his narration is, you need a break occasionally.

but all in all this one does offer a fair amount of entertainment, and now all the back story is out the way the series cna proceed to what should hopefully be a good wrap up.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Hive for happiness, 16 Dec 2009
By Barney McGrew "Charlie" (UK) - See all my reviews
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I make no bones about it, I've been enjoying this series immensely - I thought that part 3 "Doctor Who": Hornets' Nest: Circus of Doom v. 3 (BBC Audio) was the best so far, with its twisted dwarfish villain and macabre Circus ensnaring unwary locals, and had high hopes for this, the penultimate installment. Unfortunately I felt it to be a bit of a let down - Tom Baker's symphonious voice, redolent of 70s saturday tea times - was as comfortable as ever, and the music, support from Richard Franklin, and atmosphere were uniformly excellent. However, I found this section of the story a little dull, taking the shine off the series as a whole. I suppose a bridging episode is inevitable, but I'm so loving this series that I don't want it to end! Here's hoping part 5 can deliver the goods - I'm sure it will.
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