Doctor Who: Terminus

Nov 10, 2025 11:02 AM

Author:Stephen Gallagher,John Lydecker,Steven Pacey

Steven Pacey reads this suspenseful novelisation of a classic TV adventure for the Fifth Doctor. When the TARDIS is sabotaged and becomes dimensionally unstable, its internal fabric begins to dissolve, and Nyssa is drawn into a junction with a strangely deserted spacecraft.

The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough follow in pursuit, and discover the shocking purpose of Terminus. The Doctor forms an uneasy alliance with two space pirates, whilst Tegan and Turlough become frighteningly enmeshed in the spaceship's infrastructure.

For Nyssa, meanwhile, the nature of a sudden illness which engulfs her will have life changing consequences.

Steven Pacey reads Stephen Gallagher's novelisation of his 1983 TV serial featuring the Fifth Doctor, as played on screen by Peter Davison.

Reading produced by Neil Gardner

Sound design by Simon Power

Executive Producer: Michael Stevens

Reviews

Marvellous... Raging and elegaic

—— Guardian

Full of insight, full of sharp ironic twists, full of wisdom about American idealism, and full of terrific fun... A profound and personal meditation on the changes in the American psyche over the last fifty years

—— Financial Times

A tragedy of classical proportions...a magnificent novel

—— The Times

Wonderful, rich...entirely gripping

—— Sunday Telegraph

A momentous novel

—— Observer

Brilliantly written...angry, grieving, witty, acute...compellingly and convincingly rendered

—— Sunday Times

Utterly tragic and compelling. It's one of the greatest modern American novels

—— Tatler

Philip Roth’s American Pastoral is one of those books you know is going to change you in some profound way shortly after you start reading it and it did for me. I read it last summer and nothing has quite surpassed it for me since. A very painful read.

—— Angea Nagle , Irish Times

[American Pastoral] is gorgeously written with passages of breathtaking beauty filled with wisdom and pathos

—— Sarfraz Manzoor , Week

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