Doctor Who Daleks: The Mutation Of Time

Peter Purves and Jean Marsh read this exciting novelisation of a classic Doctor Who adventure, with Dalek voices by Nicholas Briggs.

John Peel was born in Nottingham in 1954. He moved to America in 1981, became the editor of Fantasy Empire and started to write fiction shortly afterwards. His first novel was Uptime, Downtime (1992) and he has since written over a hundred books, including two Doctor Who Target books based on the serial 'The Daleks' Masterplan': Mission to the Unknown and The Mutation of Time.

The Daleks’ Masterplan is well underway. With the Time Destroyer, the most deadly machine ever devised, they will conquer the Universe. Only one person stands in their way - the Doctor. For he has stolen the precious Taranium core which is vital to activate the machine. Travelling through Time and Space, the Doctor and his companions are forever on the move in case the Daleks track them down. But after several months, to their horror, the TARDIS indicates that they are being followed... The second of two novelisations written by John Peel and based on the TV serial The Daleks’ Masterplan.

Doctor Who Daleks: The Chase

Maureen O'Brien reads this thrilling novelisation of a classic Doctor Who adventure, with Dalek voices by Nicholas Briggs.

John Peel was born in Nottingham in 1954. He moved to America in 1981, became the editor of Fantasy Empire and started to write fiction shortly afterwards. His first novel was Uptime, Downtime (1992) and he has since written over a hundred books, including two Doctor Who Target books based on the serial 'The Daleks' Masterplan': Mission to the Unknown and The Mutation of Time.

Through a Space-Time Visualiser the Doctor and his companions are horrified to see an execution squad of Daleks about to leave Skaro on a mission to find the TARDIS and exterminate the time travellers.   Eluding the Daleks on the barren planet Aridius the Doctor and his friends escape in the TARDIS. But this is only the beginning of an epic journey.   As they travel through space and time, they try to shake off their pursuers by making a series of random landings - but the Daleks don't give up easily. This is a chase to the death...   Maureen O'Brien, who played Vicki in the original Doctor Who TV serial, reads John Peel's complete and unabridged novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1989.

Doctor Who: Dalek Menace! (Classic Novels Boxset)

Three great adventures for the First Doctor and friends, as they face up to the Doctor's ultimate foes: the Daleks.

A collectible slipcase containing three exciting Doctor Who audiobooks, each featuring the Daleks! In Daleks: The Chase, the TARDIS is pursued through Time and Space by the Daleks, who are intent on preventing any future intervention in their plans by the Doctor. In Daleks: Mission to the Unknown and Daleks: The Mutation of Time, the leader of Earth in the far future, Mavic Chen, has allied himself with the Daleks. When the Doctor steals the core of the Time Destructor, his arch enemies pursue him across the galaxy in order to retrieve it. Read by Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves and Jean Marsh, with Nicholas Briggs as the voice of the Daleks, these recordings feature specially composed music and sound effects. 
 
15 CDs. 17 hrs 45 mins.

The Olivetti Chronicles

The selected wit and wisdom of a national treasure

Fit to burst with colourful commentary... he crams in references to music that will have you in hysterics over his sumptuously structured prose.

What makes the Olivetti Chronicles stand out is that it contains his voice rather than anyone else's... It helps (and is entertaining) to imagine Peel speaking these pieces, and then they become very fine indeed.

This entertaining book is essential reading for Peel fans.

John Peel was born the day before the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. His 38-year career as a radio DJ is the stuff of legend and the bands he went on to discover too numerous to mention, though David Bowie, Roxy Music, T Rex, Genesis, Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, Radiohead and the White Stripes would do as a start. He lived in Suffolk with his wife Sheila and their children William, Thomas, Alexandra and Florence, plus various dogs and cats, until his death in October 2004.

John Peel is best known for his four decades of radio broadcasting. His Radio 1 shows shaped the taste of successive generations of music lovers. His Radio 4 show, Home Truths, became required listening for millions. But all the while, Peel was also tapping away on his beloved Olivetti typewriter, creating copy for an array of patient editors. He wrote articles, columns and reviews for newspapers and magazines as diverse as The Listener, Oz, Gandalf's Garden, Sounds, the Observer, the Independent and Radio Times. 
Now for the first time, the best of these writings have been brought together - selected by his wife, Sheila, and his four children. Music, of course, is a central and recurring theme, and he writes on music in all its forms, from Tubular Bells to Berlin punk to Madonna. Here you can read John Peel on everything from the perils of shaving to the embarrassments of virginity, and from the strange joy of Eurovision to the horror of being sick in trains. At every stage, the writing is laced with John's brilliantly acute observations on the minutiae of everyday life. 
This endlessly entertaining book is essential reading for Peel fans and a reminder of just why he remains a truly great Briton.

Margrave Of The Marshes

The autobiography of a legend, completed by the woman who knew him best

Pure Peel...This magnificent book is the real thing...Essential reading

As with the man himself ... there's the surprising, the cosy ... and the fascinating.

A rich and technicolor life... The joy of this book comes from something more than spiky anecdotage, delicious though it is... the evocation of an age is so sharp

... Tender and acute ... underlines the one truth that Peel understood better than anyone ... [what] really mattered was the music.

Sparkling with the warmth and dry wit that made Peel nothing short of a national treasure, it's a timely reminder of a man who crossed the radio divides

Arguably one of the most important radio broadcasters of the twentieth century...  The book bounds through the decades and the characters that populate them with Peel's trademark dry humour

It's like listening to the story of a much missed friend ...

Through nigh-on forty years of laconic brilliance on Radio 1, a musical taste which defined a culture and his wildly popular Radio 4 show, Home Truths, John Peel reached out to an audience that was as diverse as his record collection. He was a genuinely great Briton, beloved by millions. John's unique voice and sensibility were evident in everything he did, and nowhere is that more true than in these pages. 
 
Margrave of the Marshes is the astonishing book John Peel began to write before his untimely death in October 2004, completed by the woman who knew him best, his wife Sheila. It is a unique and intimate portrait of a life, a marriage and a family which is every bit as extraordinary as the man himself - a fitting tribute to a bona fide legend.

John Peel

Jean Marsh

Nicholas Briggs

Peter Purves

Stranded in the jungles of Kembel, the most hostile planet in the Galaxy, Space Security agent Marc Cory has stumbled across the most deadly plot ever hatched - the Daleks are about to invade and destroy the Universe. Cory has to get a warning back to Earth before it’s too late - but the Daleks find him first. Months later the Doctor and his companions arrive on Kembel and find Cory’s message. But it may be too late for Earth - the Daleks’ Master Plan has already begun... This is the first of two novelisations written by John Peel and based on the TV serial The Daleks’ Masterplan. It is read by Peter Purves and Jean Marsh, with Dalek voices by Nicholas Briggs. ‘BBC Audiobooks has chosen well with its books and has taken the right approach with its readers... they benefit from new music and sound effects’ - Doctor Who Magazine.

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