Feels like you are going to like this in the fall
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That does seem right up my alley 
Placing a bet here that there will be a Peladon story 
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Just finished Susan’s War: Assets of War, a decent story but a personal milestone for me as I’ve now completed 800 stories :))
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Started The Scream of Ghosts via the Into the TARDIS podcast. I know some people skip them, but I find Colin’s intros are actually quite fun and make this a slightly different listening experience.
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There, I finally finished the Krillitane Relic. I would’ve finished it sooner, but I got sick. It’s good, but isn’t as good as the previous two stories. It did take a while to get going, but the last half or third was really good. It’ll be interesting to see if they do any more stories with Ray.
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Hope you’re feeling better.
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I’m getting there, still not feeling great though.
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Finished The War Doctor Rises: Unknown Soldiers which I thought was a really strong release, fun from start to end and some good characterisation and usage of the War Doctor here. Sode characters fun and memorable. I look forward to hearing this again.
Started Deathworld earlier, really loved that first episode. the First Doctor and the Brigadier were a very fun combination, and having Two and Jamie not recognise the Brogadier was not something I expected.
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Finished Krillitaine Feint and it finished stronger than it started. I really liked the twist basically. Michael Troughton continues to climb up my list of Best Recasts but if I’m honest, I quite like all of their recasts for varying reasons.
Went straight into The Dying Breed which I really liked as well. Tom continues to amaze with his undying effervescence and Louise Jameson is always good value. Quite enjoyed how they handled the Lupari links to the Doctor’s unknown past as well.
Good set so far.
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It’s been a while since I’ve been on here - but I listened to the Myth Makers around when you posted this and OMG I loved the audiobook!!! It was SO good. Sound design worked, it was funny, loved the perspective of Homer!
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45 minutes into the last story of “Beyond the Doctor - The Penumbra Affair”.
It took me maybe 20-25 minutes before I remembered that there was an audio series about Nest’s Cottage. Which is something I know absolutely nothing about.
Isn’t it a bit odd to have the first four parts about prominent figures from the main show (Romana, Bessie, Ian, Barbara, Ben and Polly) and then have the main character of the finale be from an audio spin-off that many might not have heard about?
Otherwise the story is fine.
I’m going to do the last half hour a bit later
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Finished “The Penumbra Affair”.
It just sort of fizzled out in the end I think, the “overarching plot” for Beyond the Doctor didn’t really hold up in the end. I had a hard time concentrating on the last 20 minutes as it got a bit dull. A 2/5 
“Beyond the Doctor” is a bit of a weird one.
- The Kairos Ring by Stephen Gallagher was good, but doesn’t really connect to the remaining stories.
- Bessie Come Home by Paul Margs was just… boring.
- London, 1965 by Paul Margs was excellent! Best of the set
- Sleeper Agents by Paul Margs was a good one as well, made great by Anneke Wills’ narration.
- The Penumbra Affair by Paul Margs was just sort of there. Maybe if I had heard any of the Nest Cottage audios I would have been a bit more interested.
But the stories work fine on their own, so when and if I revisit them, I’ll probably just listen to parts 3 & 4 on their own
(Enough detours and sidesteps - I want to get on with Doom Coalition 3 
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Well, maybe if I had listened to The Penumbra Affair I could comment, but no. The Nest Cottage audios are all by Paul Magrs, so I guess this is a little like Terrance Dicks revisiting his old work in later novels. They’re a curiosity, to be sure. When Tom Baker was the only Doctor who didn’t work with Big Finish, somehow he was willing to do three sets of Nest Cottage stories. I’d have thought at the time people would have been well aware of them, being the only T Baker audios, but for people who have come to Big Finish later, I can see why they’d be lost to the mists of time.
Anyway, I just finished listening to Many Happy Returns, a rather peculiar Benny audio that was produced for charity and written and performed by pretty much everyone who’d ever been involved in the first 20 years of Benny stories.
If you know Benny inside and out, it’s probably a really fun walk down memory lane, if you don’t know the history, it’s a whole lot of characters and a whole lot of confusion. I fall somewhere in between, but know enough that it was quite enjoyable, once I understood what was going on.
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I think that it also connects to two Audio originals with the Fourth Doctor. I have listened to them but don’t remember them.
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Haven’t listened to those either, perhaps “Beyond the Doctor” isn’t as standalone as I thought it was…
Maybe at a time when I don’t have a roughly 200-hour long playlist of stuff I want to listen to
I think I am Paul Margs’d out at the moment…
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Those are probably better if you have listened to Nest’s Cottage before.
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Have you listened to Nest’s Cottage?
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I also listened to those BBC Originals, and the only thing I remember about them is that they were boring…
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No. But now I kind of want to. Did not know that these were connected to it before now.
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I really don’t like the Nest Cottage stories. They are Tom Baker playing Tom Baker rather than the Doctor and they’re a weird mix of narration and full cast. I’ve managed to listen to all of them as freebies - the first series was given away free with a newspaper years ago - and I’ve sworn never to spend money on the things.
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