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Doctor Who: The Empty House
Doctor Who: The Empty House
Oct 9, 2024 5:22 PM

Author:Simon Guerrier,Raquel Cassidy

Doctor Who: The Empty House

Thrown off course by a howling storm, the TARDIS lands in a bleak, desolate stretch of countryside. The Doctor deduces that it has arrived in Hampshire in the 1920s and, sniffing the air, he smells a distinct odour of sulphur - indicating that a spaceship has crashed in the area. While Rory goes to fetch an umbrella, Amy and the Doctor brave the rain to find the stricken craft. It is huge, shiny, silvery-blue - and completely empty. A set of footprints leads to a cosy-looking, old-fashioned cottage: but the house, too, is deserted. However, the Doctor and Amy can distinctly hear people talking - and one of the voices sounds like Rory's. How could he be in the cottage when he was last seen heading back to the TARDIS? Where are the residents of the empty house? And what has happened to the inhabitants of the spaceship? Written specially for audio by Simon Guerrier, The Empty House features the Doctor, Amy and Rory as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the acclaimed hit series from BBC Television. It is read by Raquel Cassidy, who played Miranda Cleaves in the 2011 TV episodes The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People.

Reviews

Raquel Cassidy... reads the narrative with a sense of underlying menace, laying on the atmosphere and spookiness throughout the adventure, and doing a fine job of capturing the nuances and personalities of the TARDIS crew

—— www.hertsad.co.uk

The tale is breathless... works up a gallop

—— Observer

Funny, readable and filled with proper gossip. Most importantly, it's a perceptive and tenacious look at what it was really like to be a girl among the blokes in that era

—— Alexandra Heminsley , The New Review, Independent on Sunday

Wener charts the story of her rise from suburban schoolgirl to 1990s pin-up with Indie group Sleeper. Her tone is warm, funny and self-deprecating - and she's not afraid to prick a few egos along the way

—— Daily Mirror

An amusing insight into the banality of band life, and a cautionary tale about the cost of getting what you always wanted

—— The Quietus

Teen love, bad haircuts, great music and laugh-out-loud memories

—— Fearne Cotton

(This week Sam has been) laughing, crying and over-identifying with Louise Wener's hilarious memoir, Different For Girls

—— Sam Baker - Editor of Red Magazine

Thoroughly entertaining

—— Record Collector
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