Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks

Nov 30, 2025 7:34 PM

Author:Terrance Dicks,Richard Franklin,Nicholas Briggs

An unabridged reading of this classic novelisation of a 1972 TV story featuring the Third Doctor, as played on TV by Jon Pertwee. Mysterious humans from 22nd Century Earth 'time-jump' back into the 20th Century, so as to assassinate a high-ranking diplomat on whom the peace of the world depends. The Doctor, Jo Grant and the Brigadier are soon called in to investigate. Jo is accidentally transported to the future; the Doctor follows, eventually to be captured by his oldest and deadliest enemies: the Daleks! Having submitted the Doctor to the fearful Mind Analysis Machine, the Daleks plan a 'time-jump' attack on Earth in the 20th Century! Duration: 4 hours 30 mins approx

Reviews

She is funny, vivid and devastating in her observations.

—— Helen Dunmore, Observer

Anita Brookner has sublimely mastered the art of making her reader interested in her characters . . . a thoroughly enjoyable and most unusual novel.

—— Spectator

An enchanting, honest novel.

—— Time Out

A writer at the peak of his powers; it reminds you what good reading is all about

—— Chicago Sun Times

Reading Turgenev is one of the most beautiful and memorable things he has written. It stays in your memory -like Turgenev

—— Independent on Sunday

He writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart. Trevor at his most evocative and haunting

—— Daily Mail

The essential novel for any Star Wars fan

—— Inverse

The greatest of all novels. Read it again, to test and savour the infallible truth of Tolstoy’s understanding of every stage and aspect of human life

—— Alan Hollinghurst , New York Times

To read him . . . is to find one's way home . . . to everything within us that is fundamental and sane

—— Thomas Mann

In War And Peace, richly observed human life - its catastrophes and passions, its thrills and tedium - mark out Tolstoy as a fox, who knows all about the dizzying diversity of existence

—— Observer

Highly and deservedly praised...is a remarkable achievement.

—— Contemporary Review

Wonderfully readable

—— Wendy Cope , The Week

Translators give their wits and craft selflessly in service of others' work; this is a triumph of fidelity and unpretentiousness.

—— The Independent

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