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Latest Doctor who companion chronicle. These are a range of talking books featuring an actor who played a companion to the doctor on the tv show returning to the role to read an all new story featuring them. They voice all other characters as well save one who is voiced by a guest actor.
As uaual the story runs for two episodes of roughly thirty minutes each and is complete on one disc with a trailer for the next in the range at the beginning and a very entertaining interview with cast and crew taking up the last three tracks for roughly thirteen minutes.
This one sees mark strickson reprising the role of turlough, who he played opposite peter davison's doctor back in the 1980's. Mark Strickson now lives and works in new zealand and thus isn't available to do big finish stories very often, so this is a welcome return for him.
The story begins with turlough having disobeyed the doctor and taken a spaceship so that he can go and open up a seal that keeps alien trapped in a micro universe from getting out. The seal was likened to a ringpull by tegan. Hence the title. But Turlough has an added problem in the presence of huxley, an alien from a race who call themselves narrators. They attach themselves to people and record their life. whether the person likes it or not.
Dialogue between turlough and huxley fills us in on how turlough and the doctor and tegan go into this universe in the first place. Thus the narrative structure is not conventional but it's very easy to get used to. and the interaction between turlough and his narrator is so well written and acted it's a captivating listen that makes the first part fly by.... Read more ›
As uaual the story runs for two episodes of roughly thirty minutes each and is complete on one disc with a trailer for the next in the range at the beginning and a very entertaining interview with cast and crew taking up the last three tracks for roughly thirteen minutes.
This one sees mark strickson reprising the role of turlough, who he played opposite peter davison's doctor back in the 1980's. Mark Strickson now lives and works in new zealand and thus isn't available to do big finish stories very often, so this is a welcome return for him.
The story begins with turlough having disobeyed the doctor and taken a spaceship so that he can go and open up a seal that keeps alien trapped in a micro universe from getting out. The seal was likened to a ringpull by tegan. Hence the title. But Turlough has an added problem in the presence of huxley, an alien from a race who call themselves narrators. They attach themselves to people and record their life. whether the person likes it or not.
Dialogue between turlough and huxley fills us in on how turlough and the doctor and tegan go into this universe in the first place. Thus the narrative structure is not conventional but it's very easy to get used to. and the interaction between turlough and his narrator is so well written and acted it's a captivating listen that makes the first part fly by.... Read more ›
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By R. Le Quin
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One of the most captivating and easy to listen to Companion Chronicles. Ultimately the story is told from many perspectives both by Turlough and a narrator/biographer character that has latched onto the TARDIS crew. The dynamic between the two is excellent, as is the story itself, and Turlough's dubious character. The writer as captured Turlough in a convincing and credible way.
I put off listening to this one for a long time because I prejudged it, and how wrong I was. A thoroughly enjoyable audio story and a very welcome addition to the canon. Mark has done monthly Doctor Who stories but intermittently as he has a significant career in New Zealand. Ringpullworld is his first Companion Chronicle and I really hope that the opportunity arises for more in the future.
For anyone who has never listened to a Companion Chronicle before, and knows about the fifth Doctor and his companions this might be the best one to start with.
I put off listening to this one for a long time because I prejudged it, and how wrong I was. A thoroughly enjoyable audio story and a very welcome addition to the canon. Mark has done monthly Doctor Who stories but intermittently as he has a significant career in New Zealand. Ringpullworld is his first Companion Chronicle and I really hope that the opportunity arises for more in the future.
For anyone who has never listened to a Companion Chronicle before, and knows about the fifth Doctor and his companions this might be the best one to start with.
By Keen Reader
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This is a companion chronicle featuring Turlough, who travelled in the tv series with the Fifth Doctor. Turlough's character was never particularly likeable; from the start he was working for the Black Guardian, and as we see more of Turlough he appears to be largely crafty, cowardly and self-serving. However, he has his moments, and it is in such stories as these Companion Chronicles that some of his better character traits have a chance to be shown, however briefly.
The Doctor, Turlough and Tegan have inadvertently found themselves inside a universe within the universe - but Turlough wants to free the residents of the inner universe. The Doctor does everything he can to stop him - but why? We, the listener, find the story unfolding largely through dialogue between Turlough and Huxley, a novelisor from Verbatim Six who has a very annoying tendency to narrate Turlough's life as it is happening.
The story develops in a roundabout way; an unusual device for a Doctor Who story which leaves an ending slightly without an ending. But it's very clever and the story itself is very well narrated by Mark Strickson as Turlough, also voicing the Doctor and Tegan, with a suitably nasal Australian accent.
Highly recommended.
The Doctor, Turlough and Tegan have inadvertently found themselves inside a universe within the universe - but Turlough wants to free the residents of the inner universe. The Doctor does everything he can to stop him - but why? We, the listener, find the story unfolding largely through dialogue between Turlough and Huxley, a novelisor from Verbatim Six who has a very annoying tendency to narrate Turlough's life as it is happening.
The story develops in a roundabout way; an unusual device for a Doctor Who story which leaves an ending slightly without an ending. But it's very clever and the story itself is very well narrated by Mark Strickson as Turlough, also voicing the Doctor and Tegan, with a suitably nasal Australian accent.
Highly recommended.
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