Torchwood: The Collected Radio Dramas

Torchwood Radio Dramas #1-7

by Joseph Lidster, James Goss, Rupert Laight

John Barrowman, Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd star in seven full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramas based on the hit BBC TV series. In Lost Souls by Joseph Lidster, voices from the past are calling out from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and scientists are disappearing. Can Torchwood help? In Asylum by Anita Sullivan, PC Andy Davidson turns to Torchwood after he arrests a very unusual shoplifter. Who is Freda, and where she is from? In Golden Age by James Goss, Jack discovers that a dangerous energy field centres on an old colonial mansion: Torchwood India. In The Dead Line by Phil Ford, a Cardiff hospital is inundated with patients who have fallen into coma-like trances, all of them triggered by phone calls… In The Devil and Miss Carew by Rupert Laight, Gwen and Rhys are involved in a nursing home mystery. What is Miss Carew’s connection with a series of national power cuts?? In Submission by Ryan Scott, the Torchwood team find themselves at the mercy of a hungry alien at the bottom of the sea... In The House of the Dead by James Goss, a special séance is held at the most haunted pub in Wales - but when the ghosts start arriving, all hell breaks loose... With a guest cast including Freema Agyeman, Tom Price, Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres, the collection includes a bonus behind-the-scenes feature, Torchwood: All Access.

Genres: Science Fiction, Audiobook, Doctor Who

Audio CD

Published June 1, 2017

About the author

Joseph Lidster is an English television writer best known for his work on the Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

His debut work was the audio play The Rapture for Big Finish Productions in 2002. Numerous further audio plays and prose short stories followed for Big Finish, for their Doctor Who line, spin-offs and other series (Sapphire & Steel and The Tomorrow People).

In 2005, he started working for the BBC, writing tie-in material for the new Doctor Who television series. He made his television writing debut in 2008 on the second series of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood and subsequently wrote three two-part stories for The Sarah Jane Adventures. He has written the two-part story "Rebel Magic" for the new CBBC series Wizards vs Aliens.

Lidster wrote the content for the tie-in websites relating to the fictional world of the television series, Sherlock. Alongside co-producer James Goss, he has produced Big Finish Productions' dramatic reading range of Dark Shadows audio dramas since 2011.

In 2012, he won the 'Audience Favourite Writer' award for his first play Nice Sally in the Off Cut Theatre Festival.

Reviews

[Rick · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you are a fan of Torchwood (as I am) and are disappointed that there are no new episodes or series on the horizon (as I am). Do yourself a favor and pick up these wonderful radio dramas. Strictly speaking these are not audiobooks, but instead are full-cast radio plays broadcast by the BBC. The quality of production is great, and the narrative consistency is pretty good. A couple really stand out and the last one, The House of the Dead is as good as some of the better episodes from the series (on it's own I give a 5-star rating). Over all this is well worth the time investment and, if your're a fan like me, well worth the money as well.

[A.M. · Rating 3 out of 5]

first episode, Lost Souls: the hadron collider has let something through. Martha Jones is working with Unit and calls Torchwood when 11 staff go missing.

second, Asylum: a girl with a future tech universal remote control falls into Cardiff bay. Andy, Gwen's old partner, calls them in. [There wasn't really an end to this one.]

golden age: torchwood India... [my fanfic heart beats harder at the very idea]. Jack shut it down before partition, but the Duchess who runs it has not aged a day.

the Dead line: a phone line in an old office calls people and puts them in a coma where their brain waves can call the next person

The Devil and Miss Carew: a woman on her 80's checks out of the nursing home and goes back to running her tech company at the same time as anomalies show up in the power supply and the internet.

The House of the Dead: the oldest pub in Cardiff has a séance before it is forced to shut down. That's an awful lot of spirits pushing on the rift.

888

This was kind of fun and hugely resonant with all the original voice actors. This is post the events of the TV show S2, so Tosh and Owen are dead and the team is struggling with that.

One thing though, with only sound special effects it becomes kind of obvious how lame most of their solutions are, but it was still fun.

3 stars

[Athena · Rating 4 out of 5]

The audio is wonderful and the stories are great. Listening to good stories with all your favourite characters is a fantastic find!

[Renee · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved these but Dead line and House of the dead absolutely destroyed me.

[Nightshade · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really loved Torchwood when it was airing, and used to enjoy the books too, but it has been many years since I last watched or read anything from that world. I was therefore surprised by how excited the very recognisable tune made me.

This is a fairly fun collection of short stories of varying quality. It was nice to see the characters again, although I don't think the stories were the best. This is partly due to the limitations of the short story form, although I've seen authors do a much better job even with the limited length.

[Tiina · Rating 4 out of 5]

I miss Torchwood.