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Doctor Who: The Reign Of Terror
Doctor Who: The Reign Of Terror
Oct 4, 2024 7:34 AM

Author:Dennis Spooner,William Hartnell,Carole Ann Ford,Full Cast

Doctor Who: The Reign Of Terror

'The events will happen, just as they are written...' Materialising in a forest, the Doctor and his three companions discover themselves to be 12 kilometres from Paris. This is the 18th century, and France is the scene of an ongoing bloody battle between royalists and revolutionaries. Following a blaze at a rural farmhouse, Ian, Barbara and Susan are separated from the Doctor and arrested as traitors, their destination the city's gaol. Ian receives information about James Stirling, an English spy with information vital to the revolution. No-one seems to know where Stirling is, and locating him becomes Ian's priority. The Doctor, meanwhile, arrives in Paris in the guise of a Regional Officer, and before long he has an audience with the leader of the Revolution himself: Robespierre! With Robespierre's downfall imminent, and the revolution about to reach its climax, the Doctor and friends must extricate themselves from Paris, before events overtake them and they too become victims of Madame Guillotine... Carole Ann Ford, who played Susan in these six BBC TV episodes from 1964, provides linking narration for the story.

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You don't have to be old to appreciate this collection of memories, aphorisms and stern good advice from America's favourite naughty aunt... snigger-out-loud... Reading this book is a little like being sat down by an older, wiser friend... good advice indeed

—— Independent on Sunday

Read Nora Ephron because she's funny, read her because she's wise, read her because she never writes a boring sentence, read her because she's sharp as a knife but her heart's in the right place... Enjoy!

—— David Robson , Daily Express

As always, she has an eye for the killer detail... a mixture of memoir, rants and observations... This book is as grown-up as a dirty martini

—— Daisy Goodwin , The Sunday Times

If we have to grow old (and as they say, consider the alternative) there's no better guide

—— People Magazine (Top 10 Books of 2010)

Tantalizingly fresh and forthright... She's self-effacing and brilliant. I use lines of hers all the time... She's like Benjamin Franklin or Shakespeare: her words are now part of the fabric of the English language

—— The New York Times Book Review

As a writer,novelist and award-winning screenwriter and director of films such as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless In Seattle, she has had the ability to surf the zeitgeist and make whatever is on her mind... seem fascinating and cool... her book is essential reading for anyone who hopes to grow old elegantly and perhaps a little disgracefully

—— Jane Shilling , Mail on Sunday

So clear-eyed, so free of vitriol and sarcasm and artifice that we believe everything she says... If a theme runs beneath the wit and cleverness of I Remember Nothing, it is about the difficulty of coming to terms with one's mortality

—— Jane Juska , San Francisco Chronicle

Ephron's voice helped launch a whole new way of writing, and I still love to hear it

—— Mary McNamara , Los Angeles Times

Witty and carefree... She remains the neighbor we all wish we had. Someone to share a cup of coffee with. Or better yet, a glass of wine. Maybe two... Listen... If we're all headed to the old folks home, we couldn't have a better guide than Nora Ephron

—— USA Today

Rich with self-deprecating humor at its finest... so much so that you can almost hear her laughing as she pounds away at the keyboard... a full pleasure to read

—— New York Journal of Books

She can write an entertaining riff about practically anything or everybody

—— Janet Maslin , The New York Times

Fabulous... tremendously talented... She'll dazzle you with strings of perfect prose

—— Washington Post

Sophisticatedly smart, freshly wide-eyed

—— The Times

Cheerfully wry collection... It's witty and, contrary to the title, Ephron remembers much

—— Daily Express

Full of anecdotal gifts you will never forget... Ephron reflects on the early days of her career-memories of her time working as a mail girl at Newsweek and writing for Esquire-while taking every opportunity to get real about her life at the time she was penning this memoir.

—— Oprah Magazine
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