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The Torchwood Archive


James Goss - 2016
    The Torchwood Archive provides a complete history of our Institute from its distant beginnings to the present day. When we founded our great enterprise in the year of our Lord 1879, we decreed that there should be a record of this achievement, stored at the very furthest limits of the British Empire. By visiting you are spreading that legacy, perhaps out through the skies. For now, I shall bid you a good day and welcome you to the Torchwood Archive. Do, please look around."The Torchwood Archive is a forgotten asteroid in the centre of a great war. Jeremiah is its first visitor in many centuries. He's come to learn something very important. And the ghosts of Torchwood are waiting for him.

Doctor Who: Destination: Nerva


Nicholas BriggsTim Treloar - 2012
    It is the beginning of a journey that will take them to the newly built Space Dock Nerva... where a long overdue homecoming is expected.A homecoming that could bring about the end of the human race.CHRONOLOGY: This story takes place immediately after The Talons of Weng-Chiang.

Doctor Who: Blood of the Daleks, Part 2


Steve Lyons - 2007
    The one Tom Cardwell saw all those years ago. And you borrowed its technology, didn't you? Maybe even found a Dalek or two in the wreckage. Dead, but intact. And you began to turn human beings into creatures like them. You did that? I'm right, arent I?"Chronological PlacementThis story takes place after the 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie and after the Eight Doctor's adventures with Charley Pollard.

I, Davros - Innocence


Gary Hopkins - 2006
    Knowing that it would die..."The Kaled and Thal races are at war. No one really remembers why, or when it started, but generations of people on both sides have lost so very much.Born into an influential family is Davros. Now aged sixteen, he is being pulled in various directions -- his father wants him to follow tradition and go into the military. His sister has joined the Military Youth. And his scheming, devoted mother wants him to pursue a life of science.But no one seems terribly interested in what Davros himself wants. So he must begin to assert himself, begin to take control over his own life, begin to work towards his destiny...

Doctor Who: Hunters of Earth


Nigel Robinson - 2013
    This (the first) is about the First Doctor.        Shoreditch, London, 1963. The Beatles have beaten John Smith and the Common Men to No. 1. Satellites are being launched into outer space whilst on Earth a master thief is stealing some highly specialised equipment. In the streets and bombsites around Totter's Lane, the normally placid teenagers of Coal Hill are running riot: searching out the different and hunting down the alien.         Schoolgirl Susan Foreman just wants an easy life for herself and her grandfather, the mysterious Doctor. She wants to be liked and accepted by Cedric and all the other pupils at Coal Hill School. But Susan has been inadvertently drawing attention to herself. The hunt is on - and Susan and her grandfather are the quarry.         Carole Ann Ford - Susan in the original BBC TV series - and Tam Williams perform this original story by Nigel Robinson, with music and sound design.

Gallifrey: Fractures


Stephen ColeJohn Dorney - 2006
    It evolves. It wants. It hungers. And now Romana has delivered herself to its very door.' Gallifrey is a world at war with itself. The Pandora entity, clothed in the body of President Romana's first incarnation, seeks to control the populace through mind control and manipulation. The real Romana has resorted to destroying key parts of the Capitol, hoping to weaken Pandora's power base. But when one such attack goes horribly wrong, Leela is left injured and Romana's base of operations is exposed. Hunted by their enemies, Leela must make for a medical outpost on the fringes of the fighting while Romana seeks a desperate solution in the planet's Anomaly Vaults. But what each discovers will alter their lives, and Gallifrey's future, forever.

Gallifrey: Pandora


Justin RichardsNigel Fairs - 2005
    A mutilated, comatose Time Lord who cannot be identified... A new Castellan desperate to make his mark... Evils of the past, events of the present, and echoes of the future conspire to destroy the very heart of Gallifrey's civilisation. Only Romana can understand it - but she is haunted by her own ghosts. Only Leela can sense it - but she has unfinished business. Only Braxiatel can stop it - but he cannot begin to guess the personal cost. With both Narvin and Darkel waiting for Romana to make a mistake, the President must take decisions that will change Gallifrey forever. And an ancient evil is ready and waiting for just that moment?

Torchwood: The Conspiracy


David Llewellyn - 2015
    And now Wilson is also talking about the Committee. Apparently the world really is under the control of alien lizards. That’s what Wilson says. People have died, disasters have been staged, the suspicious have disappeared.It’s outrageous. Only Jack knows that Wilson is right. The Commitee has arrived.

Doctor Who: The Last Day at Work


Harry Draper - 2018
    Finally retiring from a lifetime in the police force, he’s celebrating with friends, family and the woman he loves. It’s all perfect. Apart from the noise in his head, the wheezing, groaning noise that has haunted his entire life. That and the unusual gatecrashers.It’s going to be a night to remember…

Torchwood One: Before The Fall


Joseph Lidster - 2017
    Yvonne Hartman is the undisputed head of Torchwood One. Above the government, beyond the police, she has excellent people skills; enjoys regular tea with the Queen; and effortlessly defends the British Empire from alien threats.Yvonne Hartman is excellent at her job, and inspires devotion in everyone who works with her - until, one day, she makes a terrible mistake. We all make mistakes. But only at Torchwood can a single mistake plunge your world into interstellar war.Yvonne Hartman's facing the fight of her life. One she's going to win.New Girl by Joseph Lidster“They’ve been coming to us for years. And we’ve been kept in the dark. My name’s Rachel Allan. And I’m Torchwood”It’s Rachel Allan’s first day at Torchwood. Torchwood only takes the brightest and the best – and Rachel’s wondering if Yvonne Hartman’s made a terrible mistake in picking her.Plunged into a world of alien invasions and office politics, Rachel’s desperate to fit in. For one thing, she really wants this job. And, for another, she knows what happens at Torchwood if you fail.Through The Ruins by Jenny T Colgan“Ianto, please. It’s all… it’s all gone wrong. I don’t know what to think any more.”Away Days at Torchwood aren’t what you’d expect. Yes, there’s the forced camaraderie, the team-building exercises, and the chance for long-held rivalries to boil over. But Torchwood Away Days also have the potential to get very lethal very quickly.Yvonne Hartman’s extremely worried by this year’s Away Day. But she’s got other things on her mind – something’s very wrong with Torchwood.Uprising by Matt Fitton“Torchwood. It’s taken the best part of a month, but I’ve finally got things running how they should be. How they should have been all along. ”Torchwood has experienced some radical changes, but things are finally settling down. Everyone has pulled together and is trying to put the past behind them. Well, except for Yvonne Hartman – she’s out to win the future.There’s one problem. Someone seems to have started an interstellar war. Someone who knows Torchwood from the inside out.

Doctor Who: He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not


Carrie Thompson - 2020
    Worse than that, this Wonder of the Universe is missing, and the Doctor is about to encounter one of his most dangerous and duplicitous adversaries.The Doctor is about to meet Brian.

Gallifrey: Imperiatrix


Stewart Sheargold - 2005
    When the bombs start going off, the President of Gallifrey decides enough is enough. While Leela and K9 race to track down the terrorist to avoid more bloodshed, Romana enters into a risky bargain for control with a dangerous, influential figure from her past. But she soon discovers that the answer to her problems lies in the future. A future she has already witnessed. And one she has been trying to avoid. But someone desperately wants this future and will stop at nothing to make it occur. Even if it means leading Romana and Gallifrey to war.

Doctor Who: The Nightmare Fair


Graham Williams - 2009
    Now available to hear for the first time...The TARDIS has been drawn to Blackpool in the year 1985, where the Doctor intends to investigate a dangerous space/time vortex… while enjoying some local attractions along the way. But an old enemy is watching from his base deep within the amusement park, a timeless being who craves revenge.The Celestial Toymaker has returned. The game is on. And, should he lose, the Doctor will pay the ultimate forfeit...

Doctor Who: Master Thief/Lesser Evils


Sophie Iles - 2020
    He’s got a plan, and a deadly new weapon to assist him. However, as the Master quickly discovers, getting in might be easy, but getting away with it might cost him everything.Lesser Evils by Simon GuerrierThe Kotturuh have arrived on the planet Alexis to distribute the gift of the death to its inhabitants. The only person standing in their way is a renegade Time Lord, who has sworn to protect the locals. A Time Lord called the Master...

Doctor Who: Short Trips - Volume 1


Nicholas BriggsDorothy Koomson - 2010
    and read by your favourite Big Finish actors! Rise and Fall by George Mann (Read by William Russell)
        On a distant planet, faces bloom in the air for a fraction of a second before disappearing. Will the Doctor and Ian solve the puzzle?A Stain of Red in the Sand by David A McEwan (Read by David Troughton)
        Aliens lurk in the corridors of a block of flats, as a sculptor creates a strange statue of a girl called Zoe. But where is the Doctor?A True Gentleman by Jamie Hailstone (Read by Katy Manning)
        A young boy finds himself part of the adventure when the Doctor helps him fix his bicycle tyre...Death-Dealer by Damian Sawyer (Read by Louise Jameson)
        Leela gets more than she bargained for when she tries to buy a very unusual knife in an alien market...The Deep by Ally Kennen (Read by Peter Davison)
        Nyssa's attempts to fix the TARDIS' chameleon circuit land everyone in hot water...The Wings of a Butterfly by Colin Baker (Read by Colin Baker)
        A visit to his old tutor leads the Doctor into a closer involvement with the history of the planet Byxor than he may have liked...Police and Shreeves by Adam Smith (Read by Sophie Aldred)
        Like all Shreeves, San loves to absorb electricity. But her landlord finds out about her alien abilities. Then the Doctor and Ace get involved...Running Out of Time by Dorothy Koomson (Read by India Fisher)
        A young man is on the run. But he can't remember why he is running - or who is following him...