Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully - Series 2

Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully #2

by Eddie Robson

The small Buckinghamshire village of Cresdon Green is still suffering under the yoke of alien invasion. Well, we say 'suffering', quite a lot of the villagers don't seem bothered. But with this being a pilot scheme for a full-scale invasion of Earth, Katrina Lyons feels they ought to knock it on the head while they've got the chance, and then she can finally move out of her Mum and Dad's house and go back to her old life in London. But her entire resistance movement still consists of herself and local teenage stoner Lucy Alexander.

In the process of trying to outwit the alien commander Uljabaan, Katrina and Lucy are drawn into a sinister gardening project, must face a fate worse than death and prevent the invasion force's Computer falling in love with a virus. Can they get this minor part of the Genon military strategy cancelled? Is the Earth doomed if they can't? Or will the whole situation just sort of drag on and on?

The complete second series of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom about an alien invasion of a small village.

Genres: Humor, Audiobook, British Literature, Comedy

200 pages, Paperback

First published April 17, 2020

About the author

Eddie 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.

Reviews

[Anne Barwell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very funny, loved the references, and very British. Highly recommended.

[Taksya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Il sonnolento villaggio di Cresdon Green sarebbe il luogo ideale per passare un weekend nella tranquilla campagna inglese, se non fosse che da oltre un anno è vittima di una terribile invasione aliena.
I Geonin hanno scoperto che le invasioni in grande scale tendono a fallire e il nuovo approccio tende a selezionare una piccola comunità, isolarla e studiarla e poi colpire il resto del pianeta.
Peccato che le cose non vadano come previsto, soprattutto per il loro emissario Uljabaan, che si trova ancora bloccato nel villaggio, senza aver fatto troppi passi avanti nella comprensione del popolo che dovrebbe invadere.
Ogni episodio, 6 di una trentina di minuti, è ricco di humor e di riferimenti e citazioni.
I personaggi, alla loro seconda stagione e con qualche cambio nel cast, sono ancora in perfetta forma e l'interazione tra di loro strappa più di una risata.
Al rinnovo della missione di studio/invasione per un altro anno speravo in una terza stagione... ma credonon sia prevista.

[Clare · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review to follow.