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Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully #1-2
Welcome to our Village, Please Invade Carefully: The Complete Series 1 & 2
Two series of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom about an alien invasion of a small village, starring Hattie Morahan and Julian Rhind-Tutt with Peter Davison and Jan Francis.
When the small Buckinghamshire village of Cresdon Green is invaded by an alien race called the Geonin, the local residents come up against Uljabaan, the smooth-talking leader of the aliens.
When the small Buckinghamshire village of Cresdon Green is invaded by an alien race called the Geonin, the local residents come up against Uljabaan, the smooth-talking leader of the aliens.
1 pages, Audio CD
First published December 18, 2014
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About the author
Eddie Robson
158 books111 followersEddie Robson is a comedy and science fiction writer best known for his sitcom Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully and his work on a variety of spin-offs from the BBC Television series Doctor Who. He has written books, comics and short stories, and has worked as a freelance journalist for various science fiction magazines. He is married to a female academic and lives in Lancaster.
Robson's comedy writing career began in 2008 with material for Look Away Now. Since then his work has featured on That Mitchell and Webb Sound, Tilt, Play and Record, Newsjack, Recorded For Training Purposes and The Headset Set. The pilot episode of his sitcom Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 5th July 2012. It starred Katherine Parkinson and Julian Rhind-Tutt.
His Doctor Who work includes the BBC 7 radio plays Phobos, Human Resources and Grand Theft Cosmos, the CD releases Memory Lane, The Condemned, The Raincloud Man and The Eight Truths, and several short stories for Big Finish's Doctor Who anthologies, Short Trips. He has contributed comic strips to Doctor Who Adventures.
Between 2007 and 2009, Robson was the producer of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield range of products, and has contributed four audio plays to the series. He has also written books on film noir and the Coen Brothers for Virgin Publishing, the Doctor Who episode guide Who's Next with co-authors Mark Clapham and Jim Smith, and an illustrated adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Robson's comedy writing career began in 2008 with material for Look Away Now. Since then his work has featured on That Mitchell and Webb Sound, Tilt, Play and Record, Newsjack, Recorded For Training Purposes and The Headset Set. The pilot episode of his sitcom Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 5th July 2012. It starred Katherine Parkinson and Julian Rhind-Tutt.
His Doctor Who work includes the BBC 7 radio plays Phobos, Human Resources and Grand Theft Cosmos, the CD releases Memory Lane, The Condemned, The Raincloud Man and The Eight Truths, and several short stories for Big Finish's Doctor Who anthologies, Short Trips. He has contributed comic strips to Doctor Who Adventures.
Between 2007 and 2009, Robson was the producer of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield range of products, and has contributed four audio plays to the series. He has also written books on film noir and the Coen Brothers for Virgin Publishing, the Doctor Who episode guide Who's Next with co-authors Mark Clapham and Jim Smith, and an illustrated adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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May 17, 2017
Totally enjoyed this. As funny and camp as the title sounds. Highly recommend.
August 8, 2022
“In between item 9 'repairs to the fence between the playground and the drive,' and item 10 'any other business,' can we please add item 9b, 'the recent invasion of the village by beings from another world?”
-Why aren’t we discussing the alien invasion first?”
-Because the minutes from the previous meeting always come first!”
Omg this dramatisation was f*ing hilarious!! Seriously it was so hard not to laugh at work when I was listening to it. This is more my kind of Sci-fi...
So many great quotes! I'll include them below.
Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully was a full-cast BBC dramatisation and full of British humour. The Geonin aliens invade a small English village as a trial run and research project into the human race, in preparation for the full invasion to come after.
The alien warlord Ujlabaan has to learn about traditional British institutions and modern human experiences. Thinks like the pub and pub quizzes, cricket, A levels, setting up a Facebook page, village bake sales, charity shops and more. And he always gets it just a little bit wrong - and pokes fun at the nonsensical things we do in general. It was 5 hours of pure laughing!! Totally recommend for anyone who likes British humour and is in the need for a good laugh.
A selection of quotes I noted down:
“-Recent events have overshadowed not only what you were planning to discuss but also everything that’s ever happened in Crescent Green, ever.
-Actually in 1941, the village was visited by HRH Price George Duke of Kent.
-Did his majesty erect an impenetrable forcefield around the village, cut off all communication and make it so the outside world can’t see us or know what’s happening?“
“Do you know who else cooperated with their invaders? The French!”
“They want to take over the world! However nice and polite they are, they are a bunch of malign and lying manipulative thugs without morals or rules?” —> (haha and they are British! ha! This is exactly what the BRITS did!)
“Business is booming now that people can’t get to the bloody tesco down the road… And the aliens have agreed that when they take over the world… I can run Tesco!”
“-Can you not tell when I’m doing my narrating voice? My old computer could tell.
-With respect sir, your old computer went mad and had to be melted down.”
“-Does anyone actually read the parish newsletter?
-No but they see your face and see you’ve written some words when they put it in the recycling and they are slightly impressed.”
“Imagine what’ll happen to the British pub under alien rule. A pint will be 144.54 million tetravillions. And instead of the queen’s head on the money, it’ll be the face of an amorphous 12 eyed blub that doesn’t even have a face. Theyll ban traditional British ales, and force landlords to sell balloons full of marsh gas. Would Churchhill have stood for that?!”
“-Why are you doing this?
-I'm just being friendly! I don’t what to alienate him!
-You can’t alienate him - he’s already an alien!”
“-Computer, extrapolate the villager’s response if they are denied access to the only available pub?
-Extrapolating… subjects will cease any form of collaboration or cooperation after 6 days, 7 hours and 14 minutes."
“-Are we being racist?”
“-If we manage to save the world, no one will mind that I pandered to the slightly racist views of the pub landlord concerning the alien invaders.”
“-What is a dart board?
-It is a device used in the training of assassins.
-Really? That seems out of keeping with the rest of the village.”
“-How can two humans have the same name?
-Lack of organisation.
-So two humans are allowed to share the same name in real life, but two people can’t have the same name on Twitter?
-Correct.”
“-Katrina has delivered her report.
-Good - print it off.
-Consider the environment before printing!
-We are here to plunder this planet’s mineral resources so I don’t care!
-Good point…”
“You can’t just take an allotment, one has to be ALLOTTED to you! Otherwise, it’d be called a “take-one-whenever-you-like-ment!”
-Why aren’t we discussing the alien invasion first?”
-Because the minutes from the previous meeting always come first!”
Omg this dramatisation was f*ing hilarious!! Seriously it was so hard not to laugh at work when I was listening to it. This is more my kind of Sci-fi...
So many great quotes! I'll include them below.
Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully was a full-cast BBC dramatisation and full of British humour. The Geonin aliens invade a small English village as a trial run and research project into the human race, in preparation for the full invasion to come after.
The alien warlord Ujlabaan has to learn about traditional British institutions and modern human experiences. Thinks like the pub and pub quizzes, cricket, A levels, setting up a Facebook page, village bake sales, charity shops and more. And he always gets it just a little bit wrong - and pokes fun at the nonsensical things we do in general. It was 5 hours of pure laughing!! Totally recommend for anyone who likes British humour and is in the need for a good laugh.
A selection of quotes I noted down:
“-Recent events have overshadowed not only what you were planning to discuss but also everything that’s ever happened in Crescent Green, ever.
-Actually in 1941, the village was visited by HRH Price George Duke of Kent.
-Did his majesty erect an impenetrable forcefield around the village, cut off all communication and make it so the outside world can’t see us or know what’s happening?“
“Do you know who else cooperated with their invaders? The French!”
“They want to take over the world! However nice and polite they are, they are a bunch of malign and lying manipulative thugs without morals or rules?” —> (haha and they are British! ha! This is exactly what the BRITS did!)
“Business is booming now that people can’t get to the bloody tesco down the road… And the aliens have agreed that when they take over the world… I can run Tesco!”
“-Can you not tell when I’m doing my narrating voice? My old computer could tell.
-With respect sir, your old computer went mad and had to be melted down.”
“-Does anyone actually read the parish newsletter?
-No but they see your face and see you’ve written some words when they put it in the recycling and they are slightly impressed.”
“Imagine what’ll happen to the British pub under alien rule. A pint will be 144.54 million tetravillions. And instead of the queen’s head on the money, it’ll be the face of an amorphous 12 eyed blub that doesn’t even have a face. Theyll ban traditional British ales, and force landlords to sell balloons full of marsh gas. Would Churchhill have stood for that?!”
“-Why are you doing this?
-I'm just being friendly! I don’t what to alienate him!
-You can’t alienate him - he’s already an alien!”
“-Computer, extrapolate the villager’s response if they are denied access to the only available pub?
-Extrapolating… subjects will cease any form of collaboration or cooperation after 6 days, 7 hours and 14 minutes."
“-Are we being racist?”
“-If we manage to save the world, no one will mind that I pandered to the slightly racist views of the pub landlord concerning the alien invaders.”
“-What is a dart board?
-It is a device used in the training of assassins.
-Really? That seems out of keeping with the rest of the village.”
“-How can two humans have the same name?
-Lack of organisation.
-So two humans are allowed to share the same name in real life, but two people can’t have the same name on Twitter?
-Correct.”
“-Katrina has delivered her report.
-Good - print it off.
-Consider the environment before printing!
-We are here to plunder this planet’s mineral resources so I don’t care!
-Good point…”
“You can’t just take an allotment, one has to be ALLOTTED to you! Otherwise, it’d be called a “take-one-whenever-you-like-ment!”
May 24, 2020
The small village of Cresdon Green has disappeared and nobody has noticed. That’s because the alien Geonin have invaded, erected a forcefield around the village, and caused the rest of the United Kingdom to forget them. With such amazing technology, you would expect the aliens to quickly get on to conquering the rest of the planet, but the quiet life of an English village so perplexes them they never quite get about to the task of expanding their area of control.
This fully dramatized audiobook feels like what would happen if you crossed Fawlty Towers with an alien invasion. Each episode is frankly ridiculous but there in lies the humor of the series as the aliens confront such peculiarly English institutions as A-level exams and cricket, and some more general problems like making a Facebook page. If you enjoy laughing, you’ll probably like this book.
If you liked this review, you can find more at www.gilbertstack.com/reviews.
This fully dramatized audiobook feels like what would happen if you crossed Fawlty Towers with an alien invasion. Each episode is frankly ridiculous but there in lies the humor of the series as the aliens confront such peculiarly English institutions as A-level exams and cricket, and some more general problems like making a Facebook page. If you enjoy laughing, you’ll probably like this book.
If you liked this review, you can find more at www.gilbertstack.com/reviews.
June 27, 2024
Funny, Campy and surprisingly witty.
Small British town is invaded by an alien warlord and it was a full year before they realized he wasn't human much less that he placed the entire town "under a dome" isolating them from the world!
There response... add it to the docket at the next council meeting as item 9B.
Just from that you get a mental image of the kind of tale this is and the rest of it does not disappoint.
Small British town is invaded by an alien warlord and it was a full year before they realized he wasn't human much less that he placed the entire town "under a dome" isolating them from the world!
There response... add it to the docket at the next council meeting as item 9B.
Just from that you get a mental image of the kind of tale this is and the rest of it does not disappoint.
March 6, 2019
Just a fun series, the actors sounded like they were very relaxed and just enjoying themselves. Very easy way to pass a couple of hours.
- tip - don't bother buying it, the BBC online has it in their archives.
- tip - don't bother buying it, the BBC online has it in their archives.
March 31, 2022
Absolutely, fantastically hilarious. I listened to it while taking my daily walks, and received many strange looks from people who noticed my ear-to-ear grins or raucous laughter. Definitely recommended for fans of British humor like Terry Pratchett and Monty Python.
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