Doctor Who: We're All Stories in the End

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Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:01:00 GMT

Iain and Ryan are back to talk about Party Like It's 1998 from Obverse Books.

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The Changing Face of Doctor Who: The Giggle by James Goss

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:01:00 GMT

It's tiyyum fo' sum proppa geordie magic, aye pet. It's only Frazer Gregory!

Frazer joined me to talk about the novelisation of The Giggle one Saturday night in May of 2024. A momentous night, especially if you're Billie Piper...

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Trespassers Will Be Executed!

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:01:00 GMT

In this episode, I'm joined by Ryan to discuss this recent short story by John "Timewyrm" Peel in the excellent collection Party Like It's 1998 which we URGE YOU TO BUY.

......and then we go off on a bit of a tangent about pets.

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Infinite Requiem by Daniel Blythe

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:01:00 GMT

Phractons conquer and destroy! Join Luke Sims-Jenkins and me as we confront the terrible prospect of the infinite requiem...

Luke is the host of The Maran Chess Club.

Email us at allstoriespod@icloud.com.

Craft beer by Saints Row Brewing.

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Harmony Pines

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:01:00 GMT

Ryan and I discuss the opening story in a new anthology called Party Like it's 1998 - a book devoted to stories from the worlds of the EDA range! How cool is that? I always knew that gum we liked was going to come back into style...

Talk to us! We really want your feedback, correspondence and involvement. You can email the show at allstoriespod@icloud.com, or bloot me on Bluesky: @theiainmartin.bsky.social. I'd love to have your messages and mails on the show.

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The Changing Face of Doctor Who: Battlefield by Marc Platt

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:01:00 GMT

I'm joined live from Alastair and Doris' sunny English garden to discuss the Target novelisation of Battlefield, written by the guy who wrote Ghost Light. Confused? Good. And welcome back! Xx

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Iceberg by David Banks

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 05:01:00 GMT

It's all over. The presents are already broken, the turkey is on a plate in the fridge, and your hangover is throbbing like a well-tuned Harley. Welcome to Boxing Day. The brilliant Kenny Smith joins me to talk all about the Cybermen, and David Banks, Glasgow, Linsey Dawn McKenzie, Dunoon, Bono, the board-game Mousetrap, The Wizard of Oz, Lady Gaga, and Kenny's podcast The Power of Three, and particularly his episode interviewing the author of this New Adventure from 1993.

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Human Nature by Paul Cornell

Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:01:00 GMT

It's time to look at the all-time most loved Virgin New Adventure novel, Paul Cornell's Human Nature. Along the way, Lucy McCaul and I discuss covid, knitting, crime novels, book clubs, Looms, masculinity, Bruce Willis, "The Latin Invasion", Wolsey, the "Tenth Doctor", Nathan Bottomley (swoon), Bernie Winters and Schnorbitz, tender romance, the N-word, dormitory hangings, magic, John Levene and Benton & Hawthorne Investigate.

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Doctor Who: Musical Differences

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:00:07 GMT

It's the Festive Special you definitely didn't know you wanted! If you enjoy this, please check out The Flaneur for more stuff I've written. Happy Christmas everybody!

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Hope by Mark Clapham

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 05:01:00 GMT

On this month's edition of Bookfaced, Iain and Michael discuss David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, Anton Chekov's The Cherry Orchard, and that absolute belter, Doctor Who: Hope by Mark Clapham. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Too Hot For Hamsters in the End

Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:01:00 GMT

A very happy Doctor Who Day to all of you at home. In association with Doctor Who: Too Hot For TV and A Hamster With A Blunt Penknife, (two of the very best in the business) I present a November 23rd Special to celebrate 62 -can you believe that?- 62 years of Doctor Who. The pod-crash continues on Doctor Who: Too Hot For TV and concludes with a motherlovin' chunker of an audio commentary on A Hamster With A Blunt Penknife. Now do us a favour in return? I go on, I work me arse off for you. Cheers. Could you donate two pounds to these guys over here?

JF, DR: Love you boys Xx

In the Citadel of Dreams, I go walking in my sleep, through the valley of Doubt, to the river so deep...

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History 101 by Mags L. Halliday

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 04:01:00 GMT

Happy Hallowe'en! To terrify you all to within an inch of your lives, I'm joined by the nicest man in podcasting, Mr Dan Pinn, Mr. Kevin Jordan our tame book reviewer, and a surprise guest, to discuss that time when The Doctor, Fitz and Anji joined George Orwell to witness the Spanish Civil War. Will it be the winning side who write the history books? The losers? Or... someone else?

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The Changing Face of Doctor Who: The Infinity Doctors by Lance Parkin

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:01:16 GMT

Flight Through Entirety pin-up Nathan Bottomley joins me to be nine kinds of clever about the BBC Books 35th anniversary novel, 1998's The Infinity Doctors. The dreamy hunk Bottomley is always a joy to speak with and I hope y'all enjoy this little chat. I know today's not special for any of you, but it's special for me. Just don't ask me how old I am now.

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The High Council 6

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 04:01:00 GMT

Join us for one last episode of The High Council, as Ryan and I battle it out once and for all, to see who is truly the higher.

This has grave, but oddly entertaining implications for our chat about Jim Mortimore's unpublished Past Doctors novel Burning Artemis, which crept out into the world in the year 2000 as Campaign.

Stay tuned at the end for the VORLD-VIDE PREMIER of the new single "That's Mortimore" by THE VALEYARDBIRDS...

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Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:01:00 GMT

Please subscribe to The Flaneur. That's literally all you need to do. Paid subscribers rule the universe, but of course free subscribers are...tolerated. For now.

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Head Games by Steve Lyons

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:01:00 GMT

It's another mega-extended director's cut of a chat this month, as I sit down with Alex Wilcock (a self-confessed Virgin New Adventures supergeek) who even owns a t-shirt with all 61 NA covers proudly on display. We're talking about the 1995 New Adventure Head Games, by Steve Lyons, whose previous book in the range, 1994's Conundrum, is held in the highest regard by virtually everyone who's read it. While we discuss the return of Bonnie Langford's ebullient Bush, a genocide on Detrios, and a fight to the death between Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy (always bet on wiry strength, ferocity and speed over size or waistline) we also learn a lot about Alex's life, his wedding, his childhood and, erm, Liz Truss.

This is a really fun chat, and that's before we find out where Kev's calling from this time. Enjoy the show, and come and say hi on Bluesky; I'm @theiainmartin.bsky.social

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Happy Endings by Paul Cornell

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:01:00 GMT

What connects cricket, The Mary Whitehouse Experience and November Rain? It can only be the 50th Virgin New Adventure Happy Endings, a uniquely divisive book but a uniquely welcome celebration. Welcome, welcome, and do try not to shag the groom.

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Ryan Blake is a behavioural therapist, English and Philosophy teacher, and unapologetic science fiction fan. By day he helps people make sense of their lives, by night he transforms into a French cabaret chanteuse — and whenever there’s a spare moment, you’ll find him time-travelling through the Whoniverse. He stars on the Power To Live Foundation's podcast.

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The High Council 5

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 04:01:00 GMT

More incoherent ass-casting from two exceedingly high gentlemen who want, despite their extreme limitations, to tell you all about 1993's aborted 30th anniversary special written by Adrian Rigelsford, for Tom Baker and Rik Mayall.

And stay tuned for the world premiere of "Let's Kill the Doctor Again" by... Vervoid Revolver.

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The High Council 4

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 04:01:00 GMT

Join Ryan myself at the secret intersection of Big Finish and the EDA's: The Company of Friends - Fitz's Story.

Once again we battle extreme vertigo to bring you a focused, serious and insightful review.

Once again, we fail. but stay tuned for the WORLD PREMIERE of the new single 'Velvet Paradox' by UBtype40.

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The Changing Face of Doctor Who: Scratchman by Tom Baker

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 04:01:59 GMT

This time we are once again veering off-course and looking at a different Doctor in fiction, this time the fourth Doctor who appears in a tale written by...the fourth Doctor, Tom Baker. I'm joined by the potty-mouthed irreverent scamp Harry from a famous 80's prog band to discuss this bizarre entry into the world of written Who. This is very much NSFW, for which I'm very sorry. It's all Harry's fault. He leads me astray, as you'll hear...

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The High Council 3

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 04:01:00 GMT

Strap yourselves in, we're flying to Sarn. In this episode, the High Council meet to discuss the Twelfth Doctor story Sleep No More. It seemed poor in 2015, but has time been kind to this Mark Gatiss script? Plus, stay tuned at the end for the WORLD PREMIERE of the single "Morpheus Crisis" by 90's funk-rock band Faith No Morlock.

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Halflife by Mark Michalowski

Mon, 26 May 2025 04:01:00 GMT

Star of the podcast Doctor Who: Too Hot For TV, Dylan "I'm not wanking off Sergeant Benton" Rees goes cheek to cheek with me to explore an old Doctor Who novel in all our smart and manly ways.

This episode is sponsored by Saint's Row Brewery in Gaithersburg MD, and by the pop star Kate Nash's divine derriere.

With our correspondent Kevin Jordan joining us from the hard shoulder of the M11.

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The High Council 2

Tue, 20 May 2025 04:01:00 GMT

Iain and Ryan discuss BBCi's 2003 animated webcast The Scream of the Shalka with all the nonsense, tangents and factual inaccuracies we're coming to know and love in... The High Council.

And stay tuned at the end for the WORLD PREMIERE of SHALKA POLICE by RADIOHEDIN.

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Grimm Reality by Simon Bucher-Jones and Kelly Hale

Mon, 05 May 2025 04:01:36 GMT

Deep in the enchanted forest the ugly sisters are tormenting Anji, Fitz accompanies two princes on a magical quest, and Doctor Know-it-all has Giant problems of his own.

Sergeant-Major Ryan Blake of UNIT joins me to pick the bones out of this one.

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GodEngine by Craig Hinton Part 2

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 04:01:35 GMT

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Like the Christ, Iain and Joe return quite unexpectedly to carry on where they left off. This episode goes a little bit NSFW, but let's hope no-one nails me to a tree over it, eh?

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The High Council 1

Sun, 20 Apr 2025 04:01:00 GMT

The start of a new mini-series devoted to Doctor Who stories which aren't exclusively prose-based. The High Council, (Lord President Ryan Blake and me, Castellan Scoundrel) discuss TV stories, audios, animations, graphic novels, anything really. We hope you will join us up here at our elevated vantage point, way way up in the sky in geostationary orbit, to chew the fat about the final Fourth Doctor adventure.

Features the WORLD PREMIERE of the single "Logopolis Rain" by Guns N' Rodan.

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GodEngine by Craig Hinton

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 04:01:50 GMT

email us at allstoriespod@icloud We are back, and so is the simply adorable Joe Ford, for this even-handed and fair-minded critique of a novel (perhaps unfairly) regarded as one of the very worst Doctor Who: New Adventures. Happy Easter, peeps.

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Series 4 trailer

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 04:01:00 GMT

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends, unless I live to be twice as long as too long, in which case kill me now.

This may seem like an utterly redundant trailer. In some ways it is. But it does three very important things.

Take care. Be kind to yourself. Come say hi.

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Paul Simpson and the Invisible Mending

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 04:01:00 GMT

It's St. Patrick's Day, so let's all raise a glass to a man who has quietly worked on various Doctor Who publishing projects over the last twenty years plus, it's Paul Simpson!

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Lost in the Garden by Adam S. Leslie

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:01:00 GMT

Breaking the format SOMEWHAT this time around, we're celebrating Lent by discussing the AWARD-WINNING novel Lost in the Garden with its author, podcasting's Adam S. Leslie.

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The Changing Face of Doctor Who: Slipback by Eric Saward

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 05:01:14 GMT

Surprise! We're back for the first episode of our new, occasional side-step into Doctor Who books featuring other Doctors, and where better to start than at the very beginning, with Slipback, the very first Doctor Who novel *not* based on a BBC TV story.

Joining me is long-term Saward stan JR Southall.

WE WILL BE BACK AT EASTER!

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Winter Special - The Best Doctor Who Non-fiction Books

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 05:01:37 GMT

Happy New Year! To mark the dawning of 2025, we're back with a winter special to keep your cockles warm until we return for series four. In this jam-packed, bumper, fun-filled special episode Mikey Smith and I have a lovely natter about all kinds of Doctor Who factual things. Some of which are even true. We'll be back soon! BIG LOVE x

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Genocide by Paul Leonard

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:20:56 GMT

The fourth book published in the Eighth Doctor Adventures was the unloved Genocide by Paul Leonard. Kevin, Iain, and our tame Scotsman Mark Donaldson poke about under the bonnet to try to work out exactly what the problem is.

This is the last in the current series of We're All Stories in the End. Follow @seaoftranquillitylane on Threads and Insta to join in the conversation..

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Frontier Worlds by Peter Anghelides

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 05:01:52 GMT

Greetings to anyone who bothers to read these show-notes, and welcome to our listeners in Taiwan, Bosnia and New Zealand, France and Greece. It's nice to see Doctor Who fans (a) who are from other countries and continents or (b) listening to my podcast while they're on holibobs. Either way.

This month I'm joined once again by Jon Arnold from Strangers in Space to look at the last BBC Doctor Who adventure of the 20th Century, and discuss topics as diverse as Frank Sinatra, IBM, the Right. Hon. Dominic Raab MP and the Terry Nation Naming Convention.

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First Frontier by David A. McIntee

Sun, 27 Oct 2024 04:01:04 GMT

Let's jet off to the red clay and sandy plains of Billy the Kid territory, the sublime state of New Mexico, in this episode filled with Alien invasions, Air Force bases, and some rather baffling Kreer advice (see what I did there?) from a familiar foe...

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Father Time by Lance Parkin

Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:01:31 GMT

Join Iain and Si as they travel back to the 80's for a look at the EDA "Father Time" by Lance Parkin, and discuss 80's cartoons, Guns N' Roses, the secret of the Klade, and the TV episode "The Doctor's Daughter". Amongst other things...

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Falls the Shadow by Daniel O'Mahoney

Sun, 25 Aug 2024 04:01:58 GMT

To discuss 1995's gargantuan New Adventure Falls the Shadow, I'm joined from UNIT HQ by Corporal Blake, who had as hard a time with the novel as I did, and of course by our resident reader Kevin, who gives a second opinion that pretty much matches our own. The book remains a challenging and at times unpleasant read, at the farthest edges of what Doctor Who novels can set out to do, without actually being Transit.

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Eternity Weeps by Jim Mortimore

Sun, 28 Jul 2024 04:01:00 GMT

It's the return of Jon Arnold this month, as we discuss Eternity Weeps by Jim Mortimore, the fourth-from-final New Adventure published by Virgin in 1997. And now I've just realised this range even predates the Blair era and now I feel so old I could cry. In fact, I shall. But while I'm doing that, you can listen to this most excellent of episodes, and you can follow me on the increasingly pointless social media platform Threads, where I'm @seaoftranquillitylane, Jon is @jonarnold9 and Kevin -our tame Doctor Who fan- is @livewire122.

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Escape Velocity by Colin Brake

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 04:01:54 GMT

After spending a hundred years tooling about with no memories or TARDISes, Iain and Mark Cockram from All of Time and Space meet in St. Louis for a long-awaited reunion and a bit of a chat about Colin Brake's Eighth Doctor Adventure Escape Velocity.

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Endgame by Terrance Dicks (sort of...)

Sun, 26 May 2024 04:01:02 GMT

Join myself and Dylan "Goddam" Rees from Too Hot For TV to pick the bones out of this cold-war spy thriller from the pen of Doctor Who's greatest noveliser, Terrance Dicks. On the way, we also touch upon the related topics of whiskey, Justin Richards' careful padding, Axl Rose, 'Allo 'Allo! and Terrance's best-ever Doctor Who story. Hint: it isn't this one.

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Emotional Chemistry by Simon A. Forward

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 04:01:49 GMT

Join Iain and friend-of-the-show D.K. for a freewheeling conversation about the Eighth Doctor Adventure Emotional Chemistry, written by Simon A. Forward and published by BBC Books in the year of our lord 2003. We ramble over a wide conversational area with unexpected mentions of Terrahawks, Star Fleet and the actress Eva Green, and we have our first meeting with the last companion to join the EDA range, the enigmatic Trix... All kinds of snow, time travel and intrigue await us in this novel, set shortly after the Battle of Reykjavik. Welcome, my people. Welcome.

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Ea(s)ter of Wasps by Trevor Baxendale

Sun, 31 Mar 2024 04:30:51 GMT

We're back to continue our journey through all things Virgin New Adventure and Eighth Doctor Adventures. This month, we're going back in time to a quiet village overrun with killer wasps and sentient nuclear bombs (a bit like Professor Bracewell in Victory of the Daleks, odd that...) Join Iain and Kevin to talk about this novel, and how Kevin is coping with all this reading he's undertaking...

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Winter Special - The Specials!

Sun, 28 Jan 2024 05:10:05 GMT

Join Iain and Harry (along with his former partner-in-nonsense Luke, just a homeless ex-podcaster now that WCCY is no more) as they discuss the four recent new episodes of television's Doctor Who: The Star Beast, Wild Blue Yonder, The Giggle, and The Church on Ruby Road, to prove a theory: that Doctor Who is divisive, that not everyone needs to enjoy every single story, and that none of our individual opinions matter much in the grand scheme of things and no-one should ever feel threatened or triggered just because someone else holds a different opinion concerning an episode, a book, an audio or an action figure from a daft old kids TV show.

Get in touch! I'm @seaoftranquillitylane on Threads and @theiainmartin.bsky.social on Bluesky.

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Podswap! The Electric Sodcast

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 21:42:26 GMT

Another chance to hear something new while I'm working on the Winter Special, which will be with you in January 2024. Until then, here's an episode of the comedy podcast I make with my podcast husband James. In the Songpoker episodes, we just chat about music, and since it's still Twixtmas, why not delve deep into the story of one of the biggest hits from the 1980's - Do They Know It's Christmas by Band Aid. They're all here: Geldof, (Boy) George, Bono, the Bitter Sting of Tears, Phil Collins and some backing vocalist from Shalamar. Don't laugh.

Listen to the Complete Sod here:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1V5Ufa0AGkriiRISMqXB2C

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/electric-sodcast/id1616205466

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Earthworld by Jacqueline Rayner

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 05:01:46 GMT

Iain is joined by returning guest James for a detailed look at the struggling commercial performance of the EDA's and their plunging DWM poll scores in the early noughties, with DATA, STATS and EVIDENCE. Was Paul McGann's arrival in the Big Finish universe a hammer-blow to the BBC Books range? Was Earthworld truly the best choice for a reprint in the 2013 50th Anniversary reissues as the sole representative of the 8th Doctor? Was it a strong first outing for new companion Anji Kapoor? Was it, at least, good fun?

Need to buy any New Adventures or EDA's? Contact Kevin: kevinj1221@hotmail.com

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Dreamstone Moon by Paul Leonard

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 05:01:28 GMT

This week's episode of We're All Stories in the End sees the unexpected return of Joe Ford, who -alone out of all humanity- was prepared to help out and guest on this episode, where in addition to discussing Dreamstone Moon, we also touch upon why no-one loves Samantha Jones, Camille from Red Dwarf, male pattern baldness, and the varying qualities of the covers produced for the EDA range. Joe's a honey, so put you feet up, press play, and we very much hope you enjoy.

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Podswap! A Hamster with a Blunt Penknife

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 22:18:52 GMT

Bonus episode: in case you've never heard A Hamster With a Blunt Penknife: the delightful Doctor Who commentary podcast by Joe "nicest man in podcasting" Ford, here's their recent bookclub episode about Lance Parkin's Father Time.

Now go subscribe.

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Dominion by Nick Walters

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 05:03:28 GMT

It's episode 11 of the current series of We're All Stories in the End, and I'm joined by Tom Baker, who played the fourth- eh? Bacon? Oh. Oh I see. Yes, actually that makes more sense. I'm joined by Tom Bacon from Screen Rant to discuss a veritable plethora of wide-ranging issues such as: which Star Wars film was released in the same month as Dominion? What did we make of Dominion? What does Tom prefer: Doomsday or Time Lord Victorious? What might the new relationship with Disney+ mean for the status quo of BBC "sovereignty"? What's Tom's favourite Star Wars story ever? Lastly, but by no means leastly, who out of all of the Sith would win a big fight? Please enjoy this podcast responsibly. Rate it. Review it.

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Demontage by Justin Richards

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 05:01:56 GMT

On this week's episode of We're All Stories in the End, I'm joined by the utterly lovely Joe Ford (yes, him off of "Hamster With A Blunt Penknife") to discuss Demontage, by Justin Richards, an early (I mean, it's got Sam Jones in it) Eighth Doctor novel, and only the second adventure for new companion Fitz Kreiner. What do we make of Fitz, of Sam, of the portrayal of the Doctor, and what Mr Richards has brought to the table on this occasion. I hope you'll enjoy listening to this as much as I did recording it.

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Deceit by Peter Darvill-Evans

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 05:01:29 GMT

Join Tristan Alfaro (and myself) to discuss Deceit, the New Adventure written by range editor Peter Darvill-Evans. Ace is back, and she's joined by a comic legend, some space lesbians and an evil AI called Pool. So, is this one any good?

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Death & Diplomacy by Dave Stone

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 05:01:32 GMT

"Doctor? This is my fiance. Please don't kill him."

Join myself and Ryan Blake of the Dicey-Wicey podcast to flutter our eyelids at each other in this romantic comedy episode.

At some point. For some reason.

Follow me on Threads @seaoftranquilitylane and Ryan's on twitter: @WWDWrpg

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Dark Progeny by Steve Emmerson

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 04:01:50 GMT

Join me and Michael Storm (or, as he is henceforth to be known, "Stormageddon") for a special conversation about Dark Progeny. There's terraforming going on, odd babies being born, Fitz is in trouble and Anji's in real trouble. Send for the Doctor! Follow @seaoftranquilitylane on threads

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Damaged Goods by Russell T. Davies

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 04:01:48 GMT

Welcome back to the show Dylan Rees, host of the brilliant Doctor Who: Too Hot For TV podcast, for this careful, scholarly and entirely serious review of the debut novel from little-known Welsh writer Russell T. Davies who would one day bring Doctor Who back to the screen and make it the most wonderful and popular thing ever. But not today. Today it's 1996 and we're talking about a very different kettle of fish. Doctor Who might never be this bleak, this street, this gritty or depressing ever again. And yet, this is probably the most important of the Virgin New Adventures. So: allons-y! Follow @seaoftranquilitylane on Threads.

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Conundrum by Steve Lyons

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 04:01:01 GMT

Join Iain (@seaoftranquilitylane on Threads) and returning honeybun Jon Arnold to discuss that most meta, post-modern and high-concept Virgin New Adventure novel, 1994's Conundrum by Steve Lyons, a book with heavy links to a Troughton-era Doctor Who classic, a book with superheroes, adventuring children, a serial killer, a private dick, a quiet village, and a deadly trap for the Time Lord. Also, for once, a stunning cover painting! What's not to love?

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Coldheart by Trevor Baxendale

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 04:01:24 GMT

Join Iain and young Harry from the Who Can Convince You? podcast to discuss Trevor Baxendale's slimy thriller Coldheart from the EDA range. I'll be honest: we don't go into too much depth, due to tangents, diversions, nonsense and bumfoolery. But this episode is a good example of how to disagree agreeably... Follow @seaoftranquilitylane on Threads

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Christmas On a Rational Planet by Lawrence Miles

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:01:44 GMT

Hellfire and Sodomy! Jon Arnold joins me to talk about our memories of reading Lawrence Miles' debut novel, originally published in the summer of 1996. Meet Matheson Catcher, the Watchmakers, the Chirurgeons, the foul-mouthed Erskine Morris, and not forgetting the villainous Carnival Queen. And a fair number of tangents and diversions. All this and Kevin too, by Satan's Cock! Follow @seaoftranquilitylane on Threads.

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Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark by Andrew Lane

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 04:01:25 GMT

Join guest James and host Iain (@seaoftranquilitylane on threads) for episode two of our "sophomore" season. God, I used to hate reading that expression. But I digress. We're here to talk about the gripping climax of the Cat's Cradle trilogy and James has amassed DATA and EVIDENCE to support his diverse hypotheses. You're in for an hour of two men with a lot in common wittering away about a Doctor Who New Adventure originally published before Eldorado was even a thing...

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Cat's Cradle: Warhead by Andrew Cartmel

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 04:01:52 GMT

Welcome back to our podcast about both the Virgin New Adventures and the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures. To launch the second series with suitable gravitas and excitement, join me as I sit down with the man behind the second book in the Cat's Cradle trilogy - Andrew Cartmel. Cartmel was the script editor of Doctor Who during the Seventh Doctor era, wrote three of my favourite New Adventures, and in 2016 launched the Vinyl Detective series of cosy-crime novels. We discuss his writing career in depth, beginning -of course- with his very first book, 1992's Cat's Cradle: Warhead, which for my money is a breathtaking, visionary debut...Follow us @seaoftranquilitylane on Threads.

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Summer Special - Cwej: Down the Middle

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:19:27 GMT

Writer/editor James Hornby joins me to discuss the book Cwej: Down the Middle, published by Arcbeatle Press.

We've quit the toxic environment of "X", but it would be great if you'd like to connect on Threads: @seaoftranquilitylane.

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Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible by Marc Platt

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 04:05:31 GMT

Join Iain, Tim Reid from the Randomiser podcast, and the read-through crew for one last time in this series as we travel back to the dawn of the Time Lords in Marc Platt's Time's Crucible. Is it a classic, or is it a bit over-rated? Find out...

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Casualties of War by Steve Emmerson

Mon, 01 May 2023 04:00:20 GMT

Join the lovely Gareth, (and DK, Liam, Kevin and me) for a deep dive into the WW1 rural zombies-in-a-village page-turner that is Casualties of War by Steve Emmerson. Find out if we think this one's worth a shufti...

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Camera Obscura by Lloyd Rose

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 04:00:08 GMT

Join Jason and me for a terrifying, breathless moonlit race across the moors as we experience Kylie Minogue's favourite Doctor Who novel, Camera Obscura by Lloyd Rose. It's one of the best. But then I would say that, wouldn't I? Because I'm Sabbath.

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Blood Heat by Jim Mortimore

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 05:01:46 GMT

Join me, Ryan Blake from Wibbley-Wobbley Dicey-Wicey, Kevin, Andrew, David and James for this broad and deep dive into 1993's Virgin New Adventure Blood Heat. We've got lots to discuss: A parallel Earth conquered by the Silurians, humanity teetering on the brink of extinction, the death of the Doctor, the return of the Brigadier, Jo Grant, Liz Shaw and Sgt. Benton, the disappointingly brief appearance of Bernice Summerfield and the ongoing saga of Moody Ace. One of the greatest New Adventures comes under the microscope. If you're still reading these show-notes, and you're in the market for a podcast recommendation, why not check out the electric sodcast. It's funny.

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Blood Harvest by Terrance Dicks

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 21:06:24 GMT

Aukon's Winky! The mighty Dylan Rees joins us to talk about Terrance Dicks' 1995 vampire novel Blood Harvest, a Virgin New Adventure. Owing to the show's simple format, we basically just talk about it for a bit. For those of you who aren't so invested in spin-off fiction from Doctor Who, our many other tangents include: Mugabe and Pertwee by the pool, craft beer, the alcoholic Time Lord they call the Drinker, Goth Opera, where Pratchett and Dicks intersect, the political resurrection of a former Castellan, Geoff Spandrell from Accounts, Terrance Dicks and the Chinese Take-away, personal trainers, imminent Christmas, Doctor Who annuals, Romana, what it would be like to have sex with John Prescott, the Queen's death, and the pilot of The West Wing. Basically Dylan is a very funny man and this is a really entertaining chat. And if you're still reading these notes, please subscribe to the electric sodcast. It's a sketch-comedy podcast which has nothing to do with time-travelling spacemen. Or books. Find us on threads, @seaoftranquilitylane

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Birthright by Nigel Robinson

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 07:00:42 GMT

Welcome to the latest episode of We're All Stories in the End, and this month's wilderness-era Doctor Who novel is 1993's New Adventure: Birthright by Nigel Robinson.

The Doctor has gone. Ace has vanished. The TARDIS is dying. Bernice is all alone. (For at least the first 109 pages...)

Iain -and Agent Orange- are joined by Dr. Matt Barber (which is probably an anagram of "Master") as well as Kevin, Dylan, David, James, Jason and Liam who all have much to say about this novel (and its importance in the history of Big Finish) and along the way we uncover a mystery we will call... The Grimwade Factor.

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Beltempest by Jim Mortimore

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 07:00:11 GMT

Jim Mortimore was, for my money at least, one of the best writers to contribute to the Virgin New Adventures, but let's be honest, his only Eighth Doctor Adventure, Beltempest, is a flawed diamond at best. It seems as if everyone has problems with it, and as you'll hear, they are usually the same problems. But I'm not here to summarise my own show, and you'll just have to listen to it.

You can follow the show on threads: we're @seaoftranquilitylane.

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Bad Therapy by Matthew Jones

Tue, 01 Nov 2022 06:00:07 GMT

One of the most fondly-regarded of the Virgin Doctor Who: New Adventures books (unless you're the distinctly homophobic fan I tried talking to about the books in Canterbury early in 1997. You were reading Cold Fusion, and you'd given up on the NA's because, and I quote, "it's all about how to get boyfriends now isn't it?")

Anyway, it's obviously a total classic. I hope you enjoy this fond tribute to Matt Jones' debut novel. Follow We're All Stories In the End on threads: I'm @seaoftranquilitylane

You might also enjoy the following podcasts: All Of Time and Space, Strangers In Space, and the electric sodcast. Look 'em up, why don't you?

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Autumn Mist by David A. McIntee

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 06:00:39 GMT

Join the team as we look at David A. McIntee's 1999 EDA, Autumn Mist, in which the Eighth Doctor has it off with a faerie queen. Yes, it's time to explore the lives and loves of a Sidhe-devil. If you'd like to contribute to future episodes, please drop a thread to @seaoftranquilitylane

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Anachrophobia by Johnathan Morris

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 06:00:21 GMT

Enter a war-ravaged world of creeping terror with the gang from the Secret Library of St. John the Beheaded as we discuss Johnny Morris' 2002 EDA Anachrophobia. The Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji escape a struggling TARDIS but find themselves caught in a very localised time war...

There's a really enjoyable interview with DK, a new voice on the show, and an afterword from a VERY special guest.

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All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 06:00:01 GMT

This month we dip into one of the absolute fan-favourites from the Virgin era, with Andy Lane's All-Consuming Fire, published in 1994. Elementary, my dears...

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Alien Bodies by Lawrence Miles

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 04:01:00 GMT

Join our Doctor Who book group for an in-depth look at Lawrence Miles' 1997 EDA, Alien Bodies. Featuring a conversation with Ross Aitken from Gallifrey's Most Wanted podcast, and contributions from all around the world. Follow us at @seaoftranquilitylane on threads.

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Prelude: We're All Stories in the End

Sun, 12 Jun 2022 06:00:28 GMT

In the prelude to our journey through the Virgin New Adventures, the Eighth Doctor adventures, and our own adventures too, our international book club get together to discuss the overwhelming enormity of the books, companions, story-arcs, authors, high points, nostalgia and cover art. Rate and review the show, and subscribe to hear more. And I hope you enjoy this episode; best served with a cup of tea and a slice of cake, or maybe a nice cold beer in the sun, if you've got the weather for it.

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