Doctor Who: The Androids Of Tara (Classic Audio Original)
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  • Published: 1 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9781445867663
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 3 hr 48 min
  • Narrator: John Leeson
  • RRP: $13.99
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Doctor Who: The Androids Of Tara (Classic Audio Original)

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John Leeson reads this thrilling novelisation of a classic Doctor Who serial.

John Leeson reads this thrilling novelisation of a classic Doctor Who serial.

In search of a segment of the Key of Time, the Doctor, Romana and K9 arrive on the planet Tara, whose population has long mastered the art of android engineering. Romana is apprehended by the ambitious Count Grendel, who seeks to overthrow the king in waiting, and the Doctor is coerced into helping those loyal to the crown.

With Reynart locked away in Grendel's dungeons, the Doctor must perfect an android that can be crowned in his place. Yet Reynart is not the only one of Grendel's prisoners to have a double: the captive Princess Strella is Romana's doppelganger. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues as Grendel seeks to destroy the Doctor in his race to the Taran throne.

Now published in paperback and ebook by BBC Books, David Fisher's novelisation is read by John Leeson, the original voice of K9 in the BBC TV series.

©2012 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2012 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
  • Published: 1 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9781445867663
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 3 hr 48 min
  • Narrator: John Leeson
  • RRP: $13.99
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About the author

David Fisher

David Fisher was approached by script editor Anthony Read to write for Doctor Who and the result was the 100th story, The Stones of Blood, transmitted in 1978. Fisher first met Read when the latter was setting up a series called The Troubleshooters in 1965. Fisher went on to write for Orlando (1967), Dixon of Dock Green (1969), Sutherland's Law (1973) and General Hospital (1977). As well as The Stones of Blood, Fisher also contributed The Androids of Tara, The Creature from the Pit and The Leisure Hive to Doctor Who. The first two stories were novelised by Terrance Dicks, but Fisher decided to pen the latter two himself for the Target range.

Following his work on Doctor Who, Fisher wrote for Hammer House of Horror (1980), Hammer Mystery and Suspense (1984) and collaborated with Read on a number of historical books with subjects including World War Two espionage, the Nazi persecution of Jews and the Nazi/Soviet pact of the early 1940s.

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