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Doctor Who: Complete New Series Audio

Doctor Who: Eleventh Doctor Tales: 11th Doctor Audio Originals

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Matt Smith, Arthur Darvill and Meera Syal are among the readers of this exclusive collection of original audio adventures. Join the Eleventh Doctor on journeys in Time and Space in the following stories:

The Runaway Train by Oli Smith
The Ring of Steel by Stephen Cole
The Jade Pyramid by Martin Day
The Hounds of Artemis by James Goss
The Gemini Contagion by Jason Arnopp
Eye of the Jungle by Darren Jones
Blackout by Oli Smith
The Art of Death by James Goss
Darkstar Academy by Mark Morris
Day of the Cockroach by Steve Lyons
The Nu-Humans by Cavan Scott & Mark Wright
The Empty House by Simon Guerrier
Sleepers in the Dust by Darren Jones
Snake Bite by Scott Handcock.

The readers are Matt Smith; Arthur Darvill; Clare Corbett; Meera Syal; David Troughton; Stuart Milligan; Raquel Cassidy; Alexander Armstrong and Frances Barber.

Duration: 15 hours approx.

1 pages, Audio CD

Published December 1, 2016

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1,115 reviews65 followers
November 21, 2022
The stories were overall pretty mediocre. There were only 2 I enjoyed a lot. The rest were okay, some were even bad and/or utterly boring. Moreover, the characters didn't resemble the ones from the show at all sometimes.

And I have to admit that I wasn't a fan of Matt Smith's narration. In direct comparison with David Tennant or Catherine Tate he does a very poor job. The Rory centric story that was narrated by Arthur Darvill was great, though.
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2 reviews
March 7, 2022
The Runaway Train by Oli Smith 5/5 Phenomenal. New characters with hopes and dreams and flaws. A race against two foes and the clock. A gripping story with a captivating concept.

The Ring of Steel by Stephen Cole 3.5/5
Good characters. Lackluster, confusing storyline.

The Jade Pyramid by Martin Day 4.5/5
Beautiful setting, interesting characters and mystery.

The Hounds of Artemis by James Goss 4.5/5
Told as if the story was pieced together from different historical documents. Kept me engaged.

The Gemini Contagion by Jason Arnopp 4/5
Read by the wonderful Meera Syal, a story about the human need to communicate.

Eye of the Jungle by Darren Jones 3.5/5
New characters aren't developed enough for me to care about them and the plot was nothing special.

Blackout by Oli Smith 4.5/5
It's always interesting to see the Doctor through the eyes of a normal person.

The Art of Death by James Goss 5/5
Captivating story that unravels in ways you never would have expected. Told from the perspective of Penelope who keeps meeting the Doctor, Amy and Rory, who are displaced in time.

Darkstar Academy by Mark Morris 3.5/5 Felt rushed and predictable. I liked the setting.

Day of the Cockroach by Steve Lyons 4/5
Amy is awesome, the sound-effects are creepy, gets points for having a reference to "The Unicorn and the Wasp".

The Nu-Humans by Cavan Scott & Mark Wright 4/5
A slight rushed look into what makes someone human.

The Empty House by Simon Guerrier 5/5
Chilling ghost story where nothing is as it seems and Amy's relationships with Rory and the Doctor shine through.

Sleepers in the Dust by Darren Jones 4.5/5
Fulfilled my need to see what happened between "The Almost People" and "A Good Man Goes to War" with a similar concept: the Doctor and Rory search time and space for a way to save Amy. Bonus: First person Rory POV read by Arthur Darvill

Snake Bite by Scott Handcock. 3.5/5
Unremarkable.
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744 reviews13 followers
April 6, 2018
Anything that gets me more Doctor is cracker jacks in my book.

I liked all the stories in this collection - they were fun and original. And I really liked that the first part of the collection had a story ("Eye of the Jungle") that impacted a story in the latter part of the collection ("Sleepers in the Dust").

The narrators did well, though I (obviously) particularly loved the stories narrated by Arthur Darvill. And David Troughton did a wonderful job, as well.

I am looking forward to the release of the Twelfth Doctor's tales.
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Author 4 books62 followers
April 2, 2018
My favorites stories were "Sleepers in the Dust," "The Hounds of Artemis," and "The Art of Death." The later being a stand out in the collection. I enjoyed the way two of the stories linked back together in unexpected ways.
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98 reviews
May 18, 2022
The Runaway Train by Oli Smith: Arriving on Earth in 1864, the Eleventh Doctor and Amy must get a posse together to help them retrieve an alien artefact. The duo are chased across the Wild West by the alien race, their only hope of escape is catching the 3:25 train to Arizona.
3.5/5 I feel bad about this but after coming from the David Tennant audiobooks, I appreciate even more what a powerful reader Tennant is. Matt Smith does a good job too but... specifically his attempt at Amy's accent is... a bit rough. A pretty fun romp though.

The Ring of Steel by Stephen Cole: When the TARDIS lands on Orkney in the near future, the Doctor and Amy arrive to find a large demonstration in progress over the construction of new electricity pylons.
2/5 Very forgettable and not particularly engrossing.

The Jade Pyramid by Martin Day: Intercepting a distress call, the TARDIS is drawn to a Shinto shrine in medieval Japan, where the Doctor and Amy are met by village elder Shijô Sada.
2.5/5 This story felt pretty straightforward. And although it was cool to hear about the Doctor in a Japanese adventure finally, I had a hard time with the pronunciation of Japanese names/words, and it also kind of felt like "let's cram in every cool ancient Japanese thing we can think of."

The Hounds of Artemis by James Goss: When Lord Woolcroft and his team break open the fabled Tomb of Artemis, sealed for thousands of years, they are astonished by what they find inside...
4.5/5 An engrossing story with exciting reveals and tense action.

The Gemini Contagion by Jason Arnopp: The Doctor and Amy arrive on an Earth-bound cargo-ship loaded with Gemini, an all-new anti-viral handwash and a bunch of infected people repeating the phrase "Listen to me..."
2.5/5 Not particularly exciting, and the premise is a little hard to suspend my disbelief.

Eye of the Jungle by Darren Jones: The Amazon rainforest, 1827. Animals and people have been disappearing without trace, and local villagers speak darkly of "the Eye of the Jungle". Amy senses that the all-seeing Eye is watching them — but she and Rory are powerless to intervene when it sets its sights on the Doctor...
3/5 Fine, and fairly memorable.

Blackout by Oli Smith: It's November 9th, 1965. New York City is plunged into darkness, a taxi driver has bad dreams, and an invisible spacecraft hovers ominously above the skyline.
4/5 The reader elevates this story quite a bit. Loved Clint's voice.

The Art of Death by James Goss: When the Doctor falls through a crack in time he finds himself in the Horizon Gallery. But it's no ordinary art gallery, because this one has the best view of the most impossible wonder of the universe — the Paradox.
5/5 If you're going to listen to one Eleventh Doctor audio story... this is the one. It's reminiscent in tone to the infamous "Blink" episode; it's unique, and despite the main character not being the Doctor, it's the kind of story that could only be a Doctor Who story, and even really could only be an audio story.

Darkstar Academy by Mark Morris: Tracking the source of a time disruption, the Doctor takes Rory and Amy to what appears to be an English public school in the 1950s. But as the friends are about to discover, there are some very unusual things about Darkstar Academy.
3.5/5 I could see this being a Who TV episode. Although it would be a middling episode I think.

Day of the Cockroach by Steve Lyons: The TARDIS materialises in a pitch-dark tunnel, where the Doctor, Amy and Rory stumble on the dead body of a soldier. Questioned by his superior officer, Colonel Bowe, they learn that they're inside a British nuclear bunker, in the middle of an atomic war — in 1982.
2.5/5 Wasn't a huge fan of the setting of this one. And psychic cockroaches? Meh.

The Nu-Humans by Cavan Scott & Mark Wright: The Nu-Humans have adapted their genes to fit their new environment, and formed a thriving colony. But now they are facing a terrible threat. Can the Doctor find out who is killing Nu-Humans and why — before he, Amy and Rory are themselves tried for murder?
3/5 It was pretty good. I agree with Amy and Rory that its pretty funny to have future animal-humans with normal names like "Trevor" and "Harry."

The Empty House by Simon Guerrier: A set of footprints leads to a cosy-looking, old-fashioned cottage: but the house, too, is deserted. However, the Doctor and Amy can distinctly hear people talking — and one of the voices sounds like Rory's. How could he be in the cottage when he was last seen heading back to the TARDIS?
4.5/5 A fun story and I liked the focus on the Doctor and his companions. This one gets some bonus points for the characterizations of the three: the author really nailed the voices of the Eleventh Doctor, Amy, and Rory. Some of the other stories in here feel like it could have been the Tenth Doctor, or that the three felt a bit out of character but this was very on point.

Sleepers in the Dust by Darren Jones:. Two millennia have passed since the Nadurni Empire fell at the end of the Prokarian War, and Nadurniss seems to be a lifeless, barren world — but a mysterious illness is infecting the Nadurni, and now the whole team is in danger. The nature of the infection becomes clear when the sickest Nadurni dies and an amorphous creature emerges from its dried-up body.
3.5/5 Bonus points for Arthur Darvill reading a story that's told from Rory's point of view. But the story felt kind of all over the place, and I'm still not totally sure about the logic that "saved the day". The Nadurni make a reappearance from Eye of the Jungle but if you happened to miss that detail it really doesn't matter, as they are kind of forgettable as a species.

Snake Bite by Scott Handcock:A wormhole in time and space is being created...But then something unexpected appears inside the swirling vortex: a tall blue box with the words 'POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX' on the side. The TARDIS has arrived in the far future, in a scientific research facility - just as reality is ripped at the seams and the universe tears in two...
3/5Fine, but I also was kind of tired of the entire collection at this point to be honest.
174 reviews
May 10, 2021
Some of the stories were not interesting but most really good and I liked the narrators. Arthur Darvill is a great narrator and I love all the stories with Rory featured more. It’s nice he got some more shine in some of the novelizations than the show and his (great) character came through some more.

Idk why they always wrote/write Amy in such a weird sexist way where she’s 90% “domineering wife” and also somehow an incapable damsel in distress when it’s convenient to the plot... but that’s not unique to the novelizations and neither here nor there.

Fun stories. Matt Smith does an excellent job narrating as well.
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90 reviews1 follower
March 12, 2022
In summary:
1. Clearly a rejected short story hastily repurposed for Doctor Who. If the Doctor is not required, then it's not a Doctor Who story. Abysmal.
2. Walking pylons? Big deal. Borefest.
3. If you can make Samurais vs Ninjas boring, you're in the wrong job.
4. Alien poses as ancient god. Unoriginal, unengaging.
5. Scientist didn't test a thing and several other overused DW tropes evident.
6a. '"No threat at all", said The Doctor'. An actual quote from this story is all you need to know. Oh no, a 'to be continued'.
6b. So, we see the antagonist at the 50% point? My favourite part is Troughton's West Country/Welsh accent for Amy. "Enough!" was uttered by one of the aliens. My sentiment too.
7. Ah, so Oli Smith had a Western short story collection he couldn't sell (re: #1.).
8. Quite the cringiest dialogue I've heard in a while. Please learn the difference between childish and childlike.
9. "I saw your TARDIS, so built my own time machine." Really? Thank goodness for Alexander Armstrong - an excellent narrator.
10. "Her heart pounding in her throat." What? If you want an imaginative and thrilling adventure with post-apocalyptic cockroaches, read Better Than Life by Grant Naylor.
11. The IslandPlanet of Doctor Moreauon.
12. Almost a story, albeit stretched out.
13. The IslandCave of Doctor Moreauon. Dear Lord.
14. The Doctor is amazed by a tear in the spacetime continuum. Does Handcock understand what the TARDIS is?

A batch of unoriginal, unnuanced and uninteresting efforts. I can't help but think a better batch of stories would have come from a 'Write a Doctor Who short story competition' at the local Junior School. Compounding this disgrace, aside Armstrong, these professional actors seem singularly unable to narrate. There's also a whiff of editorial "make sure you write Amy as a strong women", despite the fact that the character is already 'strong'. The result is a hilarious and cringy faux feminism. All that and a complete mangling of the English language makes this collection is a travesty.
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367 reviews1 follower
February 5, 2023
*AUDIOBOOK* these doctor who audio books just knock it out of the park! So many stories that feel very different from one another and are authentic to the show I love so much. It made packing/unpacking and moving so much more enjoyable, and that’s saying something! Side note- while David Tennant will forever and always be my favorite doctor, Matt Smith is just a phenomenal actor and narrator, and it was such a treat to listen to the stories he delivered. All the narrators were superb though!
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128 reviews4 followers
April 9, 2025
I had mixed feelings with this audiobook. I really looked forward to new adventures of the Doctor. And while it was great to hear Matt Smith and Arthur Darville reprise their role, it was somewhat disappointing that they weren’t in all the stories. And while some of the stories were really great, not all of them were as well written. So in summary, varying levels of quality, nothing really bad but just very average, when it was good, it was really really good tho!
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Author 1 book15 followers
May 5, 2017
Several quality adventures. I particularly liked the one that Athur Darvill read as told from Rory's perspective. Matt Smith provided a smooth, rich reader's voice, while definitely being Doctory and all others in the right places. It was a interesting to hear the various reader's attempts at catching Amy accent properly.
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31 reviews6 followers
April 8, 2018
James Goss cements his place as my favourite Doctor Who writer once again with The Art of Death, which was amazing.
Some other very good stories on here, too, as well as some that were nice, but didn’t stand out much.
The readers were all chosen well. Of course I most enjoyed it when Matt Smith and Arthur Darvill read the stories, but Meera Syal and Alexander Armstrong stood out for me, too.
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683 reviews5 followers
June 30, 2022
I listened to these stories on audible( 17+ hours). I’m a huge Doctor Who fan and Matt Smith is probably my favourite of all the doctors. Amy and Rory are my favourite companions . Excellent narration . My favourites were Arthur Darvill, and Raquel Cassidy, and of course Matt Smith. Most of these I could envision as stories that could’ve been played out on TV.
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654 reviews37 followers
October 6, 2019
With a full cast and Matt Smith at the helm, how can any Doctor Who book/series/movie go wrong! There are some great stories in here with my fav being "The Hounds of Artemis", "The Art of Death" and "Sleepers in the Dust".

Definitely worth a revisit!

My rating - 5/5
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568 reviews32 followers
January 15, 2024
Incredibly fun and entertaining!
I just wish we had more stories narrated by Matt Smith; he's an amazingly talented narrator.
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Author 7 books96 followers
February 13, 2017
Another set of original adventures of Doctor Who (new audio episodes). I love that crazy Time Lord. :)
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