Doctor Who: We're All Stories in the End

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.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...

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.

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?

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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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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.

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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...

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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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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"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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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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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...

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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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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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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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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