ABOUT DAVID TENNANT
FACT FILE
Stage Name: David Tennant
Birth Name: David John McDonald
Date Of Birth: 18th April 1971
Height: 6"1
Home Town: Paisley, Scotland
Education: Ralston Primary, Paisley Grammar School, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
Favourite Book: The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger.
Favourite Film: Any Alfred Hitchcock but particulary Marnie.
Favourite Actress: Audrey Hepburn.
Favourite Play: Look Back In Anger and The Glass Menagerie.
Favourite TV Show: The West Wing.
Favourite Work Of Art: Rodin's The Kiss.
Favourite Piece Of Music: Fishing For A Dream - Turin Breaks.
Favourite Bands: The Proclaimers and The Beatles.
Favourite Doctor Who Monster: The Zygons.
TV CV:
AUDIO
BEATRIX POTTER: THE COMPLETE WORKS
Date: 2020
Character: Narrator
Production: Audible
To mark 154 years since the author’s birth, publisher Penguin Random House has announced an audio edition of Beatrix Potter: The Complete Tales.
David reads The Tale Of Benjamin Bunny.
DOCTOR WHO: OUT OF TIME
Date: 2020
Character: Tenth Doctor
Production: Big Finish
Doctor Who: Out Of Tiime volume one sees David Tennant's Tenth Doctor team up with Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor for the first time.
The Cathedral of Contemplation is an enigma, existing outside time. It turns through history, opening its doors across the universe to offer solace to those in need.
Occasionally, the Doctor drops in – when he's avoiding his destiny, it’s an ideal place to get some perspective. Only, he's already there several lives earlier, so when dimension barriers break down, his past and present collide.
And when the Daleks invade and commandeer the Cathedral, two Doctors must unite to stop them – or face extermination twice over!
DONNA NOBLE: KIDNAPPED
Date: 2020
Character: Tenth Doctor
Production: Big Finish
Fans of David Tennant's tenure as the Tenth Doctor will be thrilled to hear that he makes a cameo in the new Big Finish series starring his feisty companion Donna Noble. Catherine Tate stars in Donna Noble: Kidnapped!, a set of four new audio adventures which see Donna fighting monsters (and her overbearing mother) with a new companion as she flies the TARDIS, makes new friends and takes on the mantle of Earth’s protector.
KNOCK THREE TIMES
Date: 2020
Character: Narrator
Production: Hodder Audiobooks
Wish and Xar are outlaws on the run, hunted by Warriors, Wizards and, worst of all, Witches....
Can they find the ingredients for the spell to get rid of Witches before the Kingwitch gets his talons on the Magic-that-Works-on-Iron?
Their next Quest is the most terrifying and treacherous of all...and someone is going to betray them. Are you ready to Knock Three Times?
WAR OF THE WORLDS
Date: 2019
Character: Narrator
Production: Audible
When Earth is invaded by Martians in great mechanical tripods, terror ensues. They are equipped with heat-rays and poisonous black gas, intent on wiping out the human race. During the destruction, one man's story details the monstrous invasion, and his struggle to find his wife in the devastation.
WARPED GALAXIES: SECRETS OF THE TAU
Date: 2019
Character: Narrator
Production: Warhammer Adventures
Continuing their quest to find the mysterious Emperor's Seat, Zelia Lord and friends find themselves in a strange spaceport controlled by the alien Tau. What secrets are these seemingly friendly creatures hiding...?
WARPED GALAXIES: CLAWS OF GENESTEALER
Date: 2019
Character: Narrator
Production: Warhammer Adventures
Have you heard the phrase 'out of the frying pan, into the fire'? The young heroes have survived the Necrons, but now they face the claws and cunning of another alien enemy....
Having crash-landed on a remote ice planet, Zelia Lor and her friends Talen, Mekki and the super-intelligent alien-ape Fleapit must do whatever they can to survive. A distress beacon offers some hope of rescue, but what else lurks in the ice and snow, watching them with hungry eyes?
WARPED GALAXIES: ATTACK OF THE NECRON
Date: 2019
Character: Narrator
Production: Warhammer Adventures
On the hive world of Targian, Zelia Lor helps her mother search for ancient tech, digging up treasures of the past on the wind-blown plains. They are happy. They are safe. All that changes when the Necrons attack. Without warning, a host of robotic ships appear in the skies above Targian and rip the planet apart. Separated from her mother, Zelia must escape the doomed world, her only hope a scrambled transmission promising safety at a mysterious place known only as the Emperor’s Seat. Launched in an escape pod, she crashes on an icy wasteland far, far from home. But Zelia is not alone. She is joined by a rag-tag group of survivors – the street-tough juve Talen, gadget-obsessed Martian boy Mekki and super-intelligent alien-ape, Fleapit.
TWICE MAGIC
Date: 2018
Character: Narrator
Production: Hodder Audiobooks
From the best-selling author of How to Train Your Dragon comes an exciting high-adventure series - set in an ancient, magical time full of Wizards, Warriors, Giants and Sprites.
This was once the story of a young boy Wizard and a young girl Warrior who had been taught since birth to hate each other like poison.
But now, the boy Wizard and girl Warrior have been brought together in the Badwoods, and they have witnessed the shocking consequences of the Stone That Takes Away Magic. They will need to cast aside their differences once more - for an Evil Spell has broken free.
It's up to Xar and Wish to find the ingredients. But it means entering the Druids Castle unannounced....
WILD HONEY
Date: 2018
Character: Platonov
Production: BBC Radio 4
Village schoolmaster Platonov has it all - wit, intelligence, a comfortable and respectable life in provincial Russia, and the attentions of four beautiful women - one of whom is his devoted wife. As summer arrives and the seasonal festivities commence, the rapidly intensifying heat makes everyone giddy with sunlight, vodka and passion.
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THE TENTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES: COLD VENGEANCE
Date: 2017
Character: The Doctor
Production: Big Finish
The TARDIS arrives on Coldstar, a vast freezer satellite, packed with supplies to feed a colony world.
But there are cracks in the ice, and something scuttles under the floors. Soon, Rose and the Doctor encounter robots, space pirates and... refuse collectors.
As Coldstar's tunnels begin to melt, an even greater threat stirs within. An old enemy of the Doctor puts a plan into action - a plan for retribution.
Nobody's vengeance is colder than an Ice Warrior's.
THE TENTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES: THE SWORD OF THE CHEVALIER
Date: 2017
Character: The Doctor
Production: Big Finish
1791 and the Doctor and Rose get to meet one of the most enigmatic, thrilling and important people in history: The Chevalier d’Eon. She used to be known as a spy, but then she used to be known as a lot of things. If there’s one thing the Doctor knows it’s that identity is what you make it. Choose a life for yourself and be proud. Mind you, if the Consortium of the Obsidian Asp get their way, all lives may soon be over...
THE TENTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES: INFAMY OF THE ZAROSS
Date: 2017
Character: The Doctor
Production: Big Finish
When Jackie Tyler takes an away day to visit her old friend Marge in Norwich, she finds her holiday immediately interrupted in the worst way possible - an alien invasion! The infamous Zaross have come to take over the Earth.
Or have they? After Jackie calls in the Doctor and Rose to deal with the menace, it soon becomes clear that this is a very unusual invasion indeed.
The Doctor is about to uncover one of the most heinous crimes in the history of the galaxy. And if he can't stop it an awful lot of people are going to die.
THE WIZARDS OF ONCE
Date: 2017
Character: Narrator
Production: Hodder Audibooks
Once there was magic, and the magic lived in the dark forests. Until the warriors came...
This is the story of a young boy wizard and a young girl warrior who have been taught since birth to hate each other like poison and the thrilling tale of what happens when their two worlds collide.
Xar is a wizard boy who has no magic and will do anything to get it. Wish is a warrior girl, but she owns a banned magical object, and she will do anything to conceal it.
In this whirlwind adventure, Xar and Wish must forget their differences if they're going to make it to the dungeons at Warrior Fort - where something that has been sleeping for hundreds of years is stirring....
THE BEACH OF FALSEA
Date: 2016
Character: Wiltshire
Production: BBC Radio 4
David Tennant stars as Wiltshire, a trader freshly arrived on a Samoan Island. He marries a native girl, only to find himself tabooed by the rest of the inhabitants.
At the height of his powers, Stevenson tackled the most pressing theme on the islands - the vicious effects of colonialism including slavery, racism, sexual exploitation and the conflict between traditional and modern values. The subjects are as vivid today as in 1894, and these compelling and violent stories feature some of the most driven, dangerous and obsessive characters in fiction. Joseph Conrad drew on these novellas for Heart of Darkness.
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THE EBB TIDE
Date: 2016
Character: Narrator
Production: BBC Radio 4
Three destitute men steal a schooner. They drink the cargo of champagne and try to steal a treasure trove of pearls from a local slave-owning trader. Starring Stanley Townsend and Rupert Evans with narration by David Tennant.
At the height of his powers, Stevenson tackled the most pressing theme on the islands - the vicious effects of colonialism including slavery, racism, sexual exploitation and the conflict between traditional and modern values. The subjects are as vivid today as in 1894 and these compelling and violent stories feature some of the most driven, dangerous and obsessive characters in fiction. Joseph Conrad drew on these novellas for Heart of Darkness.
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THE TENTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES: DEATH AND THE QUEEN
Date: 2016
Character: The Doctor
Production: Big Finish
Donna Noble has never been lucky in love.
So when, one day, her Prince does come, she is thrilled to have the wedding of all weddings to look forward to. Though the Doctor isn’t holding his breath for an invitation. And her future mother-in-law is certainly not amused.
But on the big day itself, Donna finds her castle under siege from the darkest of forces, marching at the head of a skeleton army.
When it looks like even the Doctor can’t save the day, what will Queen Donna do to save her people from Death itself?
THE TENTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES: TIME REAVER
Date: 2016
Character: The Doctor
Production: Big Finish
Calibris. The spaceport planet where anything goes. Where anyone who doesn't want to be found can be lost, and where everything has its price. Where betentacled gangster Gully holds sway at the smugglers’ tavern, Vagabond’s Reach.
The alien Vacintians are trying to impose some order on the chaos. Soon the Doctor and Donna discover why. An illegal weapon is loose on the streets. A weapon that destroys lives… Slowly and agonisingly.
THE TENTH DOCTOR ADVENTURES: TECHNOPHOBIA
Date: 2016
Character: The Doctor
Production: Big Finish
When the Doctor and Donna visit London’s Technology Museum for a glimpse into the future, things don’t go to plan.
The most brilliant IT brain in the country can’t use her computer. More worrying, the exhibits are attacking the visitors, while outside, people seem to be losing control of the technology that runs their lives.
Is it all down to simple human stupidity, or is something more sinister going on?
Beneath the streets, the Koggnossenti are waiting. For all of London to fall prey to technophobia...
THE MARK OF GOLD LIGHT
Date: 2016
Character: Noriam
David Tennant is the voice of Noriam, a comical and ultimately heroic character on children's writer and musician Bowvayne's new double album The Mark of Gold Light.
Get lost in this magical tale of love, evil, battles waged between wizards and goblin-like yrrchs.
Woven into this fantastical tale, are 31 songs ranging from rock to world to classical and heart wrenching ballads. Characters are voiced by a stellar cast with Julian Glover, Phillip Glenister and Joanna Lumley.
ESSENTIAL SHAKESPEARE LIVE
Date: 2016
Character: Hamlet
Production: Royal Shakespeare Company
David Tennant is featured in a CD box set from the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The Essential Shakespeare Live is a selection of over 40 scenes and speeches performed in live Royal Shakespeare Company productions from 1959 to the present day, chosen by Gregory Doran, Artistic Director of the RSC.
The box set is made up of the previously released The Essential Shakespeare Live and The Essential Shakespeare Live Encore.
TENNANT LOOKS BACK ON OSBOURNE
Date: 2016
Character: Himself
Production: BBC Radio 4
Sixty years ago, one small play shocked British theatre to its core and started a cultural revolution. John Osborne, a writer from an unfashionable Midlands city, put ordinary lives on stage and made them an extraordinary comment on post-war Britain. As he prepares to star in a new production for Radio 4, David Tennant explores John Osborne's own papers to uncover how he put his own life and relationships into Look Back in Anger.
Along the way, we look back at the anger which greeted the play from many critics. The BBC's theatre critic Ivor Brown called it, "unspeakably dirty and squalid. It is difficult to believe that a colonel's daughter, brought up with some standards, would have stayed in this sty for a day." He went on to fume, "I felt angry because it wasted my time." He was one of many who hated the play.
David Tennant hears interviews with John Osborne, reads his personal letters, as well as archive of critic Kenneth Tynan and director Tony Richardson. He also plays extracts from previous productions, including a classic with Richard Burton as Jimmy Porter.
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LOOK BACK IN ANGER
Date: 2016
Character: Jimmy Porter
Production: BBC Radio 4
To celebrate sixty years since John Osborne wrote his classic play, Look Back In Anger, Richard Wilson directs a new radio dramatisation with David Tennant as Jimmy Porter. The play that launched the Angry Young Man movement has lost none of its bite and still disturbs and questions in equal measure.
Jimmy Porter, lower middle-class, university-educated, lives with his wife Alison, the daughter of a retired Colonel in the British Army in India. His friend Cliff Lewis, who helps Jimmy run a sweet stall, lives with them. Jimmy, intellectually restless and thwarted, reads the papers, argues and taunts his friends over their acceptance of the world around them. He rages to the point of violence, reserving much of his bile for Alison's friends and family. The situation is exacerbated by the arrival of Helena, an actress friend of Alison's from school. Appalled at what she finds, Helena calls Alison's father to take her away from the flat. He arrives while Jimmy is visiting the mother of a friend and takes Alison away. As soon as she has gone, Helena moves in with Jimmy. Alison returns to visit, having lost Jimmy's baby. Helena can no longer stand living with Jimmy and leaves. Finally Alison returns to Jimmy and his angry life.
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LATE NIGHT TALES WITH OLAFUR ARNALDS
Date: 2016
Character: Narrator
David Tennant provides a spoken word track for the latest Late Night Tales album, curated by Ólafur Arnalds.
Late Night Tales invites the world's best artists to delve deep into their music collections to create the ultimate "late night" selection. The series features expertly curated mixes by MGMT, Friendly Fires, The Flaming Lips, Metronomy, Groove Armada, The Cinematic Orchestra, Four Tet, Belle & Sebastian, Jamiroquai, Midlake, Arctic Monkeys and more top artists. Each offering includes an exclusive cover version by the artist and a spoken word story narrated by the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Will Self, Bootsy Collins, Brian Blessed and Patrick Moore. Late Night Tales: music and stories worth staying up for.
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG AND THE RACE AGAINST TIME
Date: 2016
Character: Narrator
Production: Ian Fleming Publications
Uh-oh! Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is stuck in reverse. And Little Harry's pressed a button that means she's reversing through time - with the Tootings aboard. When they finally come to a stop, it's at the feet of a very hungry-looking T. rex. How are the Tootings - and Chitty - going to get out of this one?
More fun, fast, feel-good adventure with the world's greatest car...driven by the world's most hapless family.
CHITTY CHITTY BAND BANG OVER THE MOON
Date: 2016
Character: Narrator
Production: Ian Fleming Publications
The Tootings are stuck in 1966! Somebody's stolen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and left them behind. But that's not their biggest problem. Their biggest problem is that Little Harry's been kidnapped by whoever nicked their magical car.
There's only one solution. The Tootings must find the Potts - the family that originally built Chitty. Sharing their combined knowledge of how Chitty works, the families stand a chance of rescuing Little Harry and finding the most brilliant car in the world.
But a fiendish criminal has different plans, ones that involve flying Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to the moon and putting an explosive scheme into action....
HOW TO FIGHT A DRAGON'S FURY
Date: 2016
Character: Narrator
Production: Hodder Audio
Dragons versus humans: can Hiccup save the dragons? Find out in the epic finale to the How to Train Your Dragon series, read by David Tennant.
It is the Doomsday of Yule. At the end of this day, either the humans or the dragons will face extinction. Alvin the Treacherous is about to be crowned the King of the Wilderwest on the island of Tomorrow. His reign of terror will begin with the destruction of dragons everywhere.
The fate of the dragon world lies in the hands of one young boy as he stands on the nearby isle of Hero's End with nothing to show but everything to fight for. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third's Quest is clear. First he must defeat the Dragon Guardians of Tomorrow and prove that he is in fact the rightful king, even though Hiccup has none of the King's Things and Alvin the Treacherous has all 10 of them. And then he faces his final battle: Hiccup must fight the Dragon Furious and end the Rebellion...alone.
As Doomsday draws to an end, can Hiccup be the Hero of the hour? Will the dragons survive?
UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS ABBEY
Date: 2015
Character: Narrator
Production: Classic FM
David Tennant provides narration for a charity spoof period drama from Classic FM.
Lord and Lady Armstrong Green have invited friends to witness the unveiling of their new bust of Mozart. It will sit alongside his lordship’s favourite bust, the one of Beethoven.
Dashing heir Aled, the Earl of Bangor-didn’t-we-have-a-lovely-time and his sister Lady Myleene Upper Klass are there. Uncle Alex James, the third baronet, is also in attendance.
Esteemed soprano Catarina Botti is booked to sing at the unveiling. But the evening doesn’t go to plan. This looks like a case for John Purée, brother of the more moustachioed Hercules. Or is it?
All is not what it seems at Upstairs Downland Abbey…
PETER AND THE WOLF AND JAZZ!
Date: 2015
Character: Narrator
Narrator David Tennant invites you to share in a strange and wonderful adventure: a jazz big band adaptation of Prokofiev's famous tale. Jazz instruments take the place of the classical orchestra in this innovative adaption and in addition The Amazing Keystone Orchestra introduce listeners to the sound of the big band and to the history of jazz. The booklet relates the story in a series of magnificently realised illustrations (by Martin Jarrie). Commissioned by the Festival Jazz a Vienne where it was first performed on June 28th 2012, this 'non-classical' Peter and the Wolf aimed to introduce children to all forms of jazz. In 1936 the composer of Ivan the Terrible offered an introduction to the instruments of the classical orchestra. Three-quarters of a century later, this new recording allows listeners to explore the sounds of a big band, along with the history of jazz and improvisation through its evolution and its various genres. This artistic initiative uses a formation very close to the typical Duke Ellington band: 2 alto saxes, 2 tenors, 1 baritone, 4 trombones, 4 trumpets and the rhythm section made up of the only strings in the group: piano, double bass and guitar. The only addition to this classic big band line up, indispensible for the bird, is the flute and, replacing the fourth bass trombone, the tuba.
CARMILLA
Date: 2015
Character: Dr Hesselius
Production: Audible
Audible Originals brings you a brand new audiobook adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's classic gothic novella, Carmilla - starring Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey), David Tennant (Doctor Who and Broadchurch) and Phoebe Fox (Life in Squares and The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death).
One of the very first vampire thrillers, this audio adaptation follows 18-year-old Laura as she recounts the story of her mysterious, intriguing and beautiful house guest Carmilla, who is stranded in the forest after a carriage accident and taken in by Laura's widowed father. The girls develop a friendship which turns into a passionate meeting of souls. A relationship of vampire and prey, the story is told through Laura's eyes as she is drawn further into Carmilla's terrifying world of pleasure and pain.
A masterpiece of erotic Gothic horror, Carmilla encompasses mystery, suspense, forbidden lust, violence...and lots of blood....
HOW TO BETRAY A DRAGON'S HERO
Date: 2015
Character: Narrator
Production: Hodder Audiobooks
High up in the treacherous mists of the Murderous Mountains, Hiccup and the Company of the Dragonmark are in hiding. The witch's Spydragons are guarding the shores of Tomorrow - but Hiccup is determined to become King of the Wilderwest. Can Hiccup dodge the dragons and steal the King's Things back from Alvin before the Doomsday of Yule? And is there a traitor in Hiccup's camp who in the end will betray them all?
HOW TO SEIZE A DRAGON'S JEWEL
Date: 2014
Character: Narrator
Production: Hodder Audiobooks
The story continues in the 10th volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs read by David Tennant. When we last left Hiccup things were getting very dark indeed. The Dragon Rebellion has begun. Snotlout is the new Chief of the Hooligan Tribe. Stoick has been banished and given the Slavemark. And Alvin the Treacherous has eight of the King's Lost Things, and has been proclaimed the new King of the Wilderwest ... But what can Hiccup do, now all alone and in exile, hunted by both humans and dragons? Can he find the Dragon Jewel, mankind's last and only hope? And if he does, what will he do with it?
DOCTOR WHO AT THE BBC: LOST TREASURES
Date: 2013
Character: Himself
Production: BBC Audio
Do you remember when the Fourth Doctor called in on Pete Murray's Open House? Or when Louise Jameson was menaced by a Dalek on BBC Radio Bristol? Do you remember when June Whitfield auditioned a Dalek? If these things passed you by in the 1970s and 1980s, now's your chance to catch up! Featuring rare recordings from the BBC archives and beyond, Doctor Who at the BBC: Lost Treasures is full of gems. There are recollections from six lead actors - Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Matt Smith - plus their companion co-stars Louise Jameson, Lalla Ward, Nicholas Courtney, Karen Gillan and Jenna Coleman; and production personnel including Delia Derbyshire, Peter Howell, Pennant Roberts, Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat. There are also features on the show's famous theme tune, the recovery of a lost TV episode, the cancellation of Shada and the legendary exhibition at Blackpool, along with excerpts from a radio programme broadcast live from a Doctor Who convention! Louise Jameson (Leela) is your guide on this entertaining tour behind the scenes of the series which has been entertaining us all for an astonishing half century.
RICHARD II MUSIC AND SPEECHES
Date: 2013
Character: Richard II
Production: Royal Shakespeare Company
This CD features music from the current production composed by Paul Englishby, speeches performed by David Tennant, Jane Lapotaire and Michael Pennington, as well as music from the 1913 RSC production of Richard II composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
THE GREAT SCOTT
Date: Series One - 2013, Series Two - 2014, Series Three - 2015
Character: Walter Scott
Production: BBC Radio 4
Three of Walter Scott's novels are dramatised for radio
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Download The Great Scott - The Fair Maid Of Perth
A beautiful glover's daughter is romantically pursued by a warmongering blacksmith, a poetising prince, a clansman and a bumbling bonnet-maker, in lawless 14th-century Scotland.
Download The Great Scott - Rob Roy
Defying his father's wishes, Frank is banished to the north where he meets and falls for his cousin, Die Vernon. What is her deadly secret, and why is notorious Rob Roy involved?
Download The Great Scott - Waverley
A gripping tale of love, war and divided loyalties with Scotland in open rebellion against the Union with England.
It's 1745 and 21 year old Edward Waverley, a newly commissioned red-coat officer, is posted to Scotland on the eve of Bonnie Prince Charlie's violent bid for power. His father is a rising minister in the ruling Hanoverian state, but the beloved Uncle who brought him up is an old Jacobite, loyal to the exiled Stewart dynasty.
Download The Great Scott - Redgauntlett
Alan Fairford is destined to become a lawyer but is distracted from his studies by the sudden disappearance of his best friend Danny Latimer.
Danny's absence seems to be connected with the sudden appearance of Stuart Galloway - aka Redgauntlet - who has business with Alan's father, Alexander.
But who is Redgauntlet? And what is his mission?
Alan Fairford sets out to find out the answers and hopefully to rescue his friend.
Download The Great Scott - Ivanhoe
Set in 1194 after the failure of the third Crusade, King Richard I is said to be in captivity in Austria after having been taken on his way back to England. In his absence, his brother John is plotting to take over the throne.
Wilfred of Ivanhoe, son of Cedric and one of the few remaining Saxon Lords, joined Richard in the Crusade but has been disinherited by his father for showing allegiance to a Norman. Ivanhoe is rumoured to have come to the rescue of his King in his hour of need but has since disappeared. Is he alive? Rowenna - the woman he loves - anxiously waits for news.
Download The Great Scott - The Bride Of Lammermoor
The novel is set in the Lammermuir Hills of south-east Scotland at the beginning of the 18th Century and tells of a tragic love affair between young Lucy Ashton and her family's enemy Edgar Ravenswood.
The Ashtons and Ravenswoods have been enemies for centuries - but will a proposed union between the warring families finally bring peace?
Download The Great Scott - Heart Of Midlothian
'Heart of Midlothian' begins with a trial for child murder, and then never lets the tension drop with disguises, thwarted love, hazardous journeys, kidnappings, riots, rescues - and a shy, retiring, heroine who will stop at nothing to undo the terrible damage her virtue has done.
Download The Great Scott - The Antiquary
The Antiquary is a man who hordes secrets as well as treasures. Will his knowledge allow Lovel to marry his secret love?
Download The Great Scott - The Talisman
The 1825 novel The Talisman, was originally set during the Third Crusade in the 12th Century. King Richard the Lionheart is ill and the Christian forces are divided and facing the abandonment of the Crusade. This new adaptation for radio updates the story to 2011, setting it during the Occupy London demonstrations.
EVERY SEVENTH WAVE
Date: 2013
Character: Leo
Production: BBC Radio 4
A special treat for Valentines Day! David Tennant and Emilia Fox come together to recreate their original roles from 2012's Love Virtually.
With two million copies sold in Germany to date, and bought by thirty-five publishers around the world, Love Virtually by Austrian novelist Daniel Glattauer, is well on the way to becoming a global publishing phenomenon. It's a thoroughly modern epistolary novel with a difference: its protagonists, Emmi Rothner and Leo Leike, communicate exclusively by e-mail.
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CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
Date: 2012
Character: Narrator
Production: Macmillan Digital Audio
Crackpot is what everybody calls the Pott family. So when they go to buy a new car and come back with a wreck, nobody is surprised. Except for the Potts themselves. First, the car has a name. And she tells them what it is. Then they find that she can fly... and swim...
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a car on a mission to stop a criminal gang in its tracks and she is taking the Potts with her! Jump into the world s most loved magical car, for her first adventure ever!
BELIEVE IT
Date: Series One - 2012, Series Two - 2014 , Series Three - 2017
Character: Various
Production: BBC Radio 4
Award winning spoof-autobiographical series written by Jon Canter which sees Richard Wilson narrating fictionalised episodes from his life.
Extras:
Why does Richard Wilson get drunk every November 25? For the first time, he tells the naked truth.
Did you know Sean Connery was offered the part of Victor Meldrew, before Richard Wilson? Neither did Richard, until Connery, his life-long rival, broke the news..
Richard Wilson reveals why he sleeps with a pair of miner’s boots by his bed.
Does power drive you mad? Richard Wilson knows. So do Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Stanley Kubrick. But Richard's the only one who is telling.
Richard discusses the effect of his One Foot In The Grave character Victor Meldrew on his life. Starring Richard Wilson as himself with David Tennant as Mickey Mouse.
Richard Wilson discovers a relative he never knew he had, and after Doug visits him from Australia, he rather wishes the secret had been kept. With David Tennant as Doug.
Richard Wilson explains the long-lasting influence Ian McKellan has had on his life. David Tennant appears as Old Murray and Marcos, while Ian McKellen guest stars as himself.
Richard was unwell last year. He had a heart attack. But now he's recovered and is fighting fit. With a new lease of life, he considers the things most likely to make him happy in the future. What's on his bucket list? Get a Knighthood, of course.
After a brush with death, Richard Wilson concludes that it's time to tell the truth. To everybody. He can't just be nice all the time. Sometimes you've got to tell it how it is.
After a recent brush with death, Richard considers the legacy he will leave behind. So he ponders the best way to bequeath something to the next generation.
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
Date: 2012
Character: Narrator
Production: BBC Audio
James Bond has had enough. Enough of Service life, of fruitless manhunts, of taking orders. But Blofeld is back - older, leaner and more dangerous than ever, with a deadly secret at the heart of his luxury ski resort. Bond must rediscover his passion for what he does best, in Fleming's eleventh 007 novel.
HOW TO STEAL A DRAGON'S SWORD
Date: 2012
Character: Narrator
Production: Hodder Audiobooks
The story continues in the ninth volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs read by David Tennant.
Bad times have come to the Archipelago. Ever since the woods of Berserk burned down, it is almost as if the world is cursed. Dragons are starting to revolt against their Masters. The waters have risen, flooding fields and washing whole villages away. But worse still, the wicked witch Excellinor has returned. Can Hiccup find the King's Things and win the sword-fighting contest to stop Alvin the Treacherous from becoming King of the Wilderwest?
THE RHYMING RABBIT
Date: 2012
Character: Narrator
Production: Macmillan Digital Audio
A wonderful tale from the creators of the best-selling What the Ladybird Heard. Poor old Rhyming Rabbit is feeling lonely and left out. None of his fellow rabbits appreciate his carefully thought-out poems. And as for the other animals he meets? They just tell him to be quiet! Then one starry night he meets someone who shares his enthusiasm for poetry....
JACK AND THE FLUM FLUM TREE
Date: 2012
Character: Narrator
Production: Macmillan Digital Audio
Jack's Granny is sick with a bad case of the moozles! And the only cure is the fruit of the fantastic flumflum tree which grows on the faraway Isle of Blowyernose.
It's a perilous journey, but Jack bravely sets sail, with a motley crew of only three - and a large patchwork sack that Granny has filled with an odd assortment of items from chewing gum to tent pegs. But what use will they be against hungry sharks, a leaky boat and a thieving monkey?
Follow Jack across the ocean in this irresistible story from the creators of Tyrannosaurus Drip and The Troll.
SILVER: THE RETURN TO TREASURE ISLAND
Date: 2012
Character: Narrator
Production: Whole Story Audiobooks
July, 1802: In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Late one night, a mysterious girl named Natty arrives with a request from her father, Long John Silver. The pirate proposes that Young Jim and Natty sail to Treasure Island in search of Captain Flint's hidden bounty, left behind many years before....
Featuring a cast of noble seamen; murderous pirates; and stories of love, valor, and terrible cruelty, Silver is a worthy sequel to Treasure Island- and a work of extraordinary authenticity and imaginative power from one of England's greatest writers.
TWELFTH NIGHT
Date: 2012
Character: Malvolio
Production: BBC Radio 3
Shakespeare's comedy of disguise, madness and love, starring David Tennant as Malvolio.
A comedy of misrule and a trenchant attack on puritanism as disguise and deceit leads to misadventure, madness and mistaken love in one of Shakespeare's happiest plays. Orsino loves Olivia but she loves Cesario who really does love Orsino for Cesario is actually Viola. But Malvolio believes his mistress Olivia loves him as he is a victim of a trick played on him by those who would make him mad. Shakespeare unravels a comic knot and fashions a masterpiece.
ROMEO AND JULIET
Date: 2012
Character: The Prince
Production: BBC Radio 3
Shakespeare's quick witted summer tragedy, with Trystan Gravelle and Vanessa Kirby as the lovers, and David Tennant as the Prince. In a town full of hatred, where the streets ring with the Capulet Montague feud, and swords are too easily drawn, Romeo and Juliet find each other, and love, and never let go.
Part of Radio 3's celebration of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. Following a new production of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's epic tale of mature love, this is a chance to hear his tragedy of young love, the two plays bridging the week of his birthday.
LOVE VIRTUALLY
Date: 2012
Character: Leo
Production: BBC Radio 4
Starring David Tennant and Emilia Fox, Love Virtually by Austrian novelist Daniel Glattauer is a thoroughly modern epistolary novel with one difference - its protagonists Emmi Rothner and Leo Leike communicate exclusively by email.
The European answer to You've got Mail.
Two million copies sold in Germany to date. And bought by thirty-five publishers around the world, Love Virtually by Austrian novelist Daniel Glattauer, is well on the way to becoming a global publishing phenomenon.
They "meet" when Emmi mistakenly sends an e-mail to Leo's inbox. A romance ensues that allows them to live out a shared secret life far removed from their day-to-day existences. But to what extent does it rely on fantasy and escapism, and will it survive a real-life meeting?
The problem is...Emmi (a modern Madame Bovary) is married....
Have email, Facebook, texting and the like created a generation of isolated young people who prefer to communicate remotely - who may be in fact afraid to engage in face to face contact to find love? Is it possible to fall in love with someone you've never met? Does a virtual affair 'count' as adultery? What are the implications of the fact that we can pretend to be anyone in cyberspace?
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WAITING FOR THE BOATMAN
Date: 2012
Character: Mario Minniti
Production: BBC Radio 4
The painter Mario Minniti (David Tennant) has travelled to Naples to seek out his old friend and former mentor Caravaggio. But on arrival, the great painter is nowhere to be found. In a bid to find him, Mario retraces Caravaggio's last known movements. His search reveals a life lived dangerously.
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STONEMOUTH
Date: 2012
Character: Narrator
Production: BBC Radio 4
Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston, and even though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life, staying away might be even more dangerous than turning up. Read by David Tennant.
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STEVENSON IN LOVE
Date: 2011
Character: Robert Louis Stevenson
Production: BBC Radio 4
Stevenson In Love: Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes
Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic travelogues, journals and personal letters.
Stevenson sets off with a donkey across the Cevennes in France and in the process keeps a journal that later becomes his popular travelogue "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes." But does his journeying help him to forget the woman he has met and fallen in love with - Fanny Osbourne?
Stevenson In Love: The Ameateur Emigrant
Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic travelogues, journals and personal letters.
In pursuit of the woman he loves Stevenson first catches a steamer to New York and then undertakes a momentous train journey across America - ending in California. But will she leave her husband for him.
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THE PIED PIPER OF HAMLIN
Date: 2011
Character: Narrator
Production: BBC Radio 4
David Tennant stars in Robert Browning's poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin .
HAIRY MACLARY COLLECTION
Date: 2011
Character: Narrator
Production: Macmillan Digital Audio
Meet Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Donaldson's Dairy, always ready for mischief. In this fabulous set of audio rhyming tales, Hairy Maclary and his friends just want to have fun, but trouble is never far away!The eight stories on this bumper CD collection are all set to music and read fabulously by Dr Who star David Tennant.The collection contains:Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy Hairy Maclary, Sit! Hairy Maclary and Zackary Quack Hairy Maclary's Rumpus at the Vet Hairy Maclary Scattercat Hairy Maclary's Bone Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness Hairy Maclary's Caterwaul Caper
Previously released as single story audio books:
2005 - Hairy Maclary From Donaldson's Dairy - Narrator
2006 - Hairy Maclary's Rumpus At The Vet - Narrator
2007 - Hairy Maclary's Bone - Narrator
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG FLIES AGAIN
Date: 2011
Character: Narrator
Production: Macmillan Digital Audio
When the Tooting family find an abandoned engine and fit it to their campervan, they have no idea of the adventure that lies ahead. Their campervan now has a mind of her own! It's not long before they're hurtling along as Chitty tracks down her long-lost bodywork. But there are sinister forces at work too. When it comes to a car as special as Chitty, everybody wants a piece of her...
SUPERMARKET ZOO
Date: 2011
Character: Narrator
Production: Simon & Schuster
Every little boy knows that going shopping with Mum is the most boring thing in the world. But for little Albie, one trip to the supermarket opens a whole new world of fun! Because this isn't just any supermarket - it's the supermarket zoo - and with a whole trolley full of animals on his list, Albie will never see shopping the same way again.
A HERO'S GUIDE TO DEADLY DRAGONS
Date: 2011
Character: Narrator
Production: Hodder Audio
Hiccup is lost in the Library Labyrinth and the Driller-Dragons, Madguts and Murderous, are on the prowl. Hiccup's birthday is not going to be the quiet affair he hoped for.... This book also contains a comprehensive Dragonese Dictionary for those who'd like to dragon-whisper themselves.
HOW TO BREAK A DRAGON'S HEART
Date: 2011
Character: Narrator
Production: Hodder Audio
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer, and the greatest viking hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that. Hiccup's memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy, and finding it very hard to be a hero. Hiccup must battle Berserks, dodge Scarers, complete the Impossible Task and save Fishlegs from being fed to the Beast! And all while being hunted down by an old enemy with a dark secret about the Lost Throne. What's a hero to do?
LIFE AND FATE
Date: 2011
Character: Nikolai Krymov
Production: BBC Radio 4
Vasily Grossman's epic tale set against the Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet Russia.
THE PURPLE LAND
Date: 2011
Character: Richard Lamb
Production: BBC Radio 4
Eloping with an Argentine girl, young Richard Lamb makes an implacable enemy of his teenage bride's father. Leaving her behind, he goes ignorantly forth into the interior of the country to seek his fortune.Whilst doing so he learns to hunt, ride, herd, love - even kill. On his way to becoming a man.
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TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
Date: 2011
Character: Narrator
Production: BBC Learning
David Tennant reads an adaptation of 'The brave Tin Soldier' by Hans Christian Andersen
Twenty-five toy soldiers are made from an old tin spoon. They are all alike except for one, which was last to be made. He has only one leg, because they ran out of tin, but stands as straight as his brothers.
The soldiers are a birthday present for a little boy. The boy stands them on a table with other toys, one of which is a pretty dancer made of paper. The one-legged soldier falls in love with the dancer but doesn't tell her. He thinks she will be too grand for him as she lives in a castle, while he lives in a box.
One night a goblin jumps out of a jack-in-the-box. He warns the soldier that he shouldn’t wish for what doesn't belong to him and should wait to see what happens in the morning.
When morning comes the boy puts the soldier on the window sill. He is blown out of the open window. He's found by some other boys and when it starts to rain he's put into a paper boat and washed down a drain. A rat tries to make him pay a toll. Then he plunges into a canal and is eaten by a fish. The fish is caught and sold at market and then taken to the house where the soldier began his journey. The soldier is found when the fish is cut open.
The soldier is put back with his brothers but one of the other children, perhaps having been put up to it by the goblin, throws him on the fire. A gust of wind then blows the paper dancer onto the fire and she is immediately consumed by flames. The soldier melts into a lump of heart-shaped tin.
THE GOBETWEENIES
Date: 2011
Character: Joe
Production: BBC Radio 4
David Tennant and Sarah Alexander star as multi-married exes in a shared parenting radio comedy, written by Marcella Evaristi and directed by Marilyn Imrie.
The Gobetweenies is a candid look at contemporary family through the prism of two North London siblings, Lucy and Tom, as they schlep between their determinedly hands-on parents.
Joe can't take being a "once a fortnight" dad. Lucy is excited about exploring surrealism, Tom is obsessively counting sultanas and their mum, Mimi, is desperate for her third attempt at married life to get started. But the children's father, Joe, has come to a decision that will change all their lives.
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KAFKA THE MUSICAL
Date: 2011
Character: Franz Kafka
Production: BBC Radio 3
Murray Gold's play starts from the suitably Kafkaesque premise that Franz Kafka finds he has to play himself in a musical about his own life. The play - or is it the musical? - introduces Kafka and the audience to some of the key characters in his life, Milena Jesenska, Dora Diamant and Felice Bauer.
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MY SISTER SITS ON THE MANTLEPIECE
Date: 2011
Character: Narrator
Production: Orion Books
Ten-year-old Jamie Matthews has just moved to the Lake District with his Dad and his teenage sister, Jasmine for a 'Fresh New Start'. Five years ago his sister's twin, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. His parents are wrecked by their grief, Jasmine turns to piercing, pink hair and stops eating. The family falls apart. But Jamie hasn't cried in all that time. To him Rose is just a distant memory. Jamie is far more interested in his cat, Roger, his birthday Spiderman T-shirt, and in keeping his new friend Sunya a secret from his dad. And in his deep longing and unshakeable belief that his Mum will come back to the family she walked out on months ago. When he sees a TV advert for a talent show, he feels certain that this will change everything and bring them all back together once and for all.
A NIGHT WITH A VAMPIRE
Date: 2010 and 2011
Character: Narrator
Production: BBC Radio 4
David Tennant reads a series of vampire stories for the Book At Bedtime.
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David Tennant reads Antoine Calmet's accounts of real Vampires, gathered from people across Europe who believed they had seen the creatures with their own eyes.
Download A Night With A Vampire: The Family Of The Vordalak
Gorcha sets off on a mysterious mission but tells his family not to accept him if he should return after 10 days - for then he will be a vampire. Read by David Tennant.
Download A Night With A Vampire: The Horla
Guy de Maupassant's striking psychological tale enters the world of the Vampire and how it corrupts and destroys the brain. Read by David Tennant.
Download A Night With A Vampire: Luella Miller
Luella Miller seems incapable of helping herself. But everyone who comes to her aid soon ails and dies in their efforts. Read by David Tennant.
Download A Night With A Vampire: Clarimonde
In this true struggle between good and evil, heaven and hell, Theophile Gautier creates a whirlwind world of sensuality, seduction and rampant vampirism. Read by David Tennant.
Download A Night With A Vampire: Bewitched
Bewitched by Edith Wharton. Saul still goes out to see his previous girlfriend...even though she died years ago.
Download A Night With A Vampire: Drink My Blood
Drink My Blood by Richard Matheson is about a young schoolboy whose only ambition in life is to become a vampire.
Download A Night With A Vampire: The Girl With Hungry Eyes
The Girl With The Hungry Eyes by Fritz Lieber concentrates on the magnetic power of the vampire.
Download A Night With A Vampire: A Lot Of Mince Pies
A Lot Of Mince Pies by Robert Swindells focuses on a group of carol singers who visit the same cottage every year.
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The Lady Of The House Of Love by Angela Carter a virginal English soldier, travelling through Romania by bicycle, finds himself in a deserted village.
HOW ROALD DAHL SHAPED POP
Date: 2010
Character: Narrator
Production: BBC Radio 2
On the twentieth anniversary of Roald Dahl's death, David Tennant tells a new tale of the unexpected - the stamp he's left on the world of pop.
Kate Nash reveals how Dahl's fantastical children's books have influenced her own storytelling style, stirring her to invent surreal characters and magical places in songs like Mariella and Little Red.
Kelly Jones of the Stereophonics explains how he found inspiration for songs such as I Stopped To Fill My Car Up in Dahl's grisly, suspenseful short stories.
Plus, David reveals how a song about Willy Wonka gave a Rat Pack legend his only U.S. number one.
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DOGFISH
Date: 2010
Character: Narrator
Production: Simon & Schuster Children's Books
What's a boy to do when everyone has a dog but him? Why, ask for one, of course! But when mom refuses and points to the pet goldfish instead, the little protagonist attempts to make his case with both reason - a fish can't play fetch, go for walks or wag its tail - and a little manipulation - unleashing his most "hypnotizing eyes" on her. Mom doesn't take the bait: "if you can't have what you want, you could try to want what you have." Taking her advice to heart, the boy, with some patience and ingenuity, makes his aquatic pet a worthy canine substitute and finds real joy in his new "DOGfish.
BEAR SNORES ON
Date: 2010
Character: Narrator
Production: Simon & Schuster Children's Books
Bear is snuggled in his cave for the winter. He sleeps all day and all night. The cold wind can't even wake him up. He just snores on. Then, one day, something unexpected happens, and he is woken up.
DOCTOR WHO: DEAD AIR
Date: 2010
Character: Narrator
Production: BBC Audio
This is an exclusive, original adventure for the 10th Doctor, read by David Tennant. Featuring additional music and effects, Doctor Who: Dead Air has never been previously published.
Hot on the heels of a creature that exists through sound, the Doctor lands on a pirate radio station boat in the late 1960s. The creature has already killed some of the DJs, and the Doctor befriends the survivors. But then the lights go out, and a desperate race for survival begins. Who can the Doctor trust in the dark?
DOCTOR WHO: THE LAST VOYAGE
Date: 2010
Character: Narrator
Production: BBC Audio
The TARDIS materialises on board the maiden voyage of a pioneering space cruiser, travelling from Earth to the planet Eternity. The Doctor has just started exploring the huge, hi-tech Interstitial Transposition Vehicle when there is a loud bang, a massive jolt, and a flash of light. Shortly afterwards, he discovers that nearly all the passengers and crew have disappeared. Unless the Doctor and flight attendant Sugar MacAuley can take control and steer the ship, they could crash-land or keep slipping through space forever. And as if that wasn't enough, something awful awaits them on Eternity.
Written exclusively for audio by Dan Abnett and read by David Tennant, The Last Voyage features the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the acclaimed hit series from BBC Television.
HOW TO RIDE A DRAGON'S STORM
Date: 2010
Character: Narrator
Production: Hodder Audio
The hilarious series which inspired the Dream Works film. Hiccup has three months, five days and six hours to get back to Berk, save his father, battle Polarserpents AND win the annual Inter-Tribal Friendly Swimming Race. Can he do it????
David Tennant reads this hilarious children's clasic which can be enjoyed by everybody.
MURDER IN SAMARKLAND
Date: 2010
Character: Carig Murray
Production: BBC Radio 4
David Tennant stars in David Hare's new drama for radio, Murder In Samarkand, based on the memoir by Craig Murray.
In Hare's play, Craig is a high-flyer in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office who loves his job and is proud to be appointed Ambassador for the first time, to Tashkent. It's before the Iraq war and Uzbekistan is newly in focus as a useful ally in the "War on Terror".
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MAC B
Date: 2010
Character: Narrator
Production: BBC Radio 4
A version of Macbeth - transposed to the football field. MacB, with the help of his friend Banksie, plans to supplant Duncan King as the star striker in their school football team. A nasty bike accident puts Duncan out of the game and gives MacB hischance. But Banksie becomes suspicious about the accident - just where was MacB at the time and how far would he go when urged on by his formidable mother? The action of the play is worked through as MacB's ambitions sour and crumble on the football pitch. Read by David Tennant.
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OF MICE AND MEN
Date: 2010
Character: George Milton
Production: BBC Radio 4
David Tennant and Liam Brennan star in Donna Franceschild's dramatisation of John Steinbeck's seminal novel about migrant workers in Thirties California, whose dream of one day owning a place of their own is tragically destroyed.
Of Mice And Men explores the friendship between George Milton and Lennie Small via the last three days in Lennie's life.
On the run from a town where Lennie has been accused of rape, they pick up new jobs on a ranch further north – a place where the boss has recently married a flirtatious young woman.
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HOW TO TWIST A DRAGON'S TALE
Date: 2009
Character: Narrator
Production: Hodder Audio
The hilarious series which inspired the Dream Works Film. The Fire-Stone has been stolen, the volcano is active and the Exterminator dragons have their CLAWS out! Can Hiccup be the Hero of the hour? David Tennant reads this hilarious children's classic which can be enjoyed by everybody.
DOCTOR WHO: DAY OF THE TROLL
Date: 2009
Character: Narrator
Production: BBC Audio
When the Doctor arrives on Earth in the far future, he is horrified to find the planet beset by famine and starvation. England is a barren wasteland, and scientists are desperately seeding the ground to make the crops grow again. But now it seems that something even worse is happening. Karl Baring, the owner of research facility The Grange, has been snatched away in the middle of the night. His sister Katy was with him when he vanished, but is now in catatonic shock - so it is up to the Doctor, with the help of the scientists at The Grange, to investigate. What is lurking under the old bridge, and why is it preying on people? The Doctor must find out, before it strikes again... Written specially for audio by Simon Messingham and read by David Tennant, The Day of the Troll features the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the acclaimed hit series from BBC Television.
NEBULOUS
Date: 2008
Character: Doctor Beep
Production: BBC Radio 4
Comedy series by Graham Duff, set in the year 2099, about Professor Nebulous and his team of eco-trouble shooters. Featuring David Tennant as Dr Beep.
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DOCTOR WHO: PEST CONTROL
Date: 2008
Character: Narrator
Production: BBC Audio
This Audio Original story is exclusively available from BBC Audiobooks, and is not available in print form or as TV episode. Pest Control is the first such Audio Original, an exclusive adventure read by David Tennant.
The Doctor and Donna face monstrous insects and a ruthless robot exterminator in this thrilling, exclusive audio story.
The TARDIS is lost in battle on a distant planet. When the Doctor sets off in pursuit, Donna is left behind, and finds herself accepting a commission in the Pioneer Corps. Something is transforming soldiers into monstrous beetles, and she could be the next victim.
Featuring the Doctor and Donna, as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the hit series from BBC Television, this story has been written specially for audio by Peter Anghelides, and is read by David Tennant, with additional music and sound effects.
THE WOODEN OVERCOAT
Date: 2007
Character: Peter
Production: BBC Radio 4
David Tennant and Julia Davis star in this macabre and hilarious drama set in London in 1951 and dramatised by Mark Gatiss. Benji has murdered his mistress and, much to his surprise, he has got away with it.
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HOW TO CHEAT A DRAGON'S CURSE
Date: 2007
Character: Narrator
Production: Hodder Audio Books
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was a Viking hero - dashing, brave, and ever so clever. But even Viking heroes have to begin somewhere.... Can Hiccup find the antidote to deadly Vorpentitis and fight the Doomfang? Can he brave the axe of Norbert the Nutjob and be the Hero yet again?
HOW TO SPEAK DRAGONESE
Date: 2006
Character: Narrator
Production: Hodder Audio Books
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was a Viking hero - dashing, brave, and ever so hairy. But even Viking heroes have to begin somewhere.... Toothless has been captured, the nanodragon is about to be gobbled, and Sharkworms are on the loose. Once again we are relying on Hiccup to be a hero.
DOCTOR WHO: THE FEAST OF THE DROWNED
Date: 2006
Character: Narrator
Production: BBC Audio
When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North Sea, all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. But then he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast... the feast of the drowned. As the dead crew haunt loved ones all over London, the Doctor and Rose are drawn into a chilling mystery. What sank the ship, and why? When the cruiser’s wreckage was towed up the Thames, what sinister force came with it? The river’s dark waters are hiding an even darker secret, as preparations for the feast near their conclusion... Read by the Tenth Doctor himself, this exciting adventure features the Doctor and Rose, as played by David Tennant and Billie Piper in the acclaimed hit series from BBC Television. Also included is an exclusive bonus interview with the author, Stephen Cole, compiled by David Darlington of Doctor Who Magazine.
DOCTOR WHO: THE RESURRECTION CASKET
Date: 2006
Character: Narrator
Production: BBC Audio
Starfall - a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. And that includes the TARDIS. The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier picking elsewhere. But they still come, either for the romance of it, or old-fashioned organic mining, or in the hope of finding the lost treasure of Hamlek Glint - scourge of the spaceways, privateer, adventurer, bandit... Will the TARDIS ever work again? Is Glint’s lost treasure waiting to be found? And does the fabled Resurrection Casket - the key to eternal life - really exist? With the help of new friends, and to the horror of new enemies, The Doctor and Rose aim to find out... Read by the Tenth Doctor himself, this thrilling adventure features the Doctor and Rose as played by David Tennant and Billie Piper in the acclaimed hit series from BBC Television. Also included is an exclusive bonus interview with the author, Justin Richards, compiled by David Darlington of Doctor Who Magazine.
DOCTOR WHO: THE STONE ROSE
Date: 2006
Character: Narrator
Production: BBC Audio
Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum - a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realises that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose soon have more on their minds than sculpture. While the Doctor searches for a missing boy, Rose befriends a girl who claims to know the future - a girl whose predictions are surprisingly accurate. But then the Doctor stumbles on the hideous truth behind the statue of Rose - and Rose herself learns that you have to be very careful what you wish for... Read by the Tenth Doctor himself, this thrilling adventure features the Doctor and Rose as played by David Tennant and Billie Piper in the acclaimed hit series from BBC Television. Also included is an exclusive bonus interview with the author, Jacqueline Rayner, conducted by David Darlington of Doctor Who Magazine.
ROMEO AND JULIET
Date: 2005
Character: Mercutio
Production: Arkangel Shakespeare
In the world's most celebrated and lyrical love story, the sublime devotion of two young lovers transcends their earthly fate.
The noble Veronese houses of Montague and Capulet are locked in a bitter feud. When Romeo (a Montague) and Juliet (a Capulet) fall in love, they are swept up in a series of violent events and cruel twists of fortune. Despite the passion and innocence of their love, they fall victim to the enmity between their families, and their story ends in tragedy.
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
Date: 2005
Character: Antipholus of Syracuse
Production: Arkangel Shakespeare
Chaos and confusion mount to a crescendo in a wild and fast-paced comedy of mistaken identity, one of Shakespeare's earliest plays.
Young Antipholus of Syracuse is searching the world for his identical twin brother, separated from him at birth. With him is his servant Dromio, who lost his twin brother at the same time. The pair arrive in Ephesus where, unbeknownst to them, their twins are living.
KING LEAR
Date: 2005
Character: Edgar
Production: Arkangel Shakespeare
This shattering drama of isolation and loss is one of the greatest tragedies in world literature.
King Lear of Britain has three daughters: the hard-hearted Goneril and Regan, and the good and gentle Cordelia. He determines to divide his kingdom between them, giving the largest share to she who can say she loves him the best. Lear's tragic lack of judgement and self-knowledge is paralleled by the blindness of the loyal Gloucester who is persuaded to reject his virtuous son Edgar in favor of the villainous Edmund.
MACBETH
Date: 2005
Character: Porter
Production: Arkangel Shakespeare
Sinister supernatural forces are at work in this fast-paced tragedy of guilt and retribution, in which the power of human beings to control their own destiny is called into question.
The brave warrior Macbeth allows himself to be persuaded by Lady Macbeth, his wife, to slay good King Duncan and seize the throne of Scotland for himself. Macbeth achieves his ambition, but one murder proves not to be enough as he desperately attempts to eliminate all who might threaten his ill-gotten power. Descending into paranoia, Macbeth achieves his ambition but ravages his soul.
THE BEASTS OF CLAWSTONE CASTLE
Date: 2005
Character: Narrator
Production: Macmillan Digital Audio
Can two children foil an outrageous criminal plot with the help of some of the funniest and maddest ghosts ever invented?
Clawstone Castle is ancient and famous, but its elderly owners have no money. In its great park live a legendary herd of wild white cattle that have roamed there since the days of the Druids, and now their future is threatened. Rollo and Madlyn come to stay with their uncle and aunt and, with the help of a mysterious recluse in the castle library, they collect an impressive team of phantoms who agree to help them turn Clawstone into a tourist attraction. There’s a bloodstained bride, an aristocrat whose chest is permanently gnawed by a rat, a girl who was sawn in half in a circus, a pair of feet without a body, and more. Paying visitors soon pour through the gates. But then a terrible fate befalls the cattle, and the ghosts and the children find themselves facing some very sinister enemies.
THE ADVENTURES OF LUTHER ARKWRIGHT
Date: 2005
Character: Luther Arkwright
Production: Big Finish
Luther battles against the Disruptors in a parallel world where many things are familiar - but nothing is the same.
The alternative England where Luther fights the Disruptors did not see the monarchy restored after the English Civil War and has been under the rule of the Puritan Parliamentarians for hundreds of years. Lead by a direct descendant of Oliver Cromwell, England is ripe for the taking by European superpowers that are preparing to invade.
Many in England dream of past glories and an empire ruled by the long exiled Kings and Queens of England. A second Civil war is brewing - its aim to bring Prince Charles to the throne and Luther must help to ensure that the right side wins - not just for the sake of this world, but for all worlds...
DIXON OF DOCK GREEN
Date: 2005
Character: PC Andy Crawford
Production: BBC Radio 4
David Tennant starred in Series One of the BBC Radio 4 reboot of the classic police drama Dixon Of Dock Green in 2005.
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George Dixon is showing new boy Andy Crawford the ropes on the beat of Dock Green. To PC Crawford's surprise, Dixon is prepared to bend the rules in order to arrest one of a gang of safebreakers.
Download Dixon Of Dock Green: Needle In A Haystack
A baby's life is in danger when some pep pills go missing and Dixon causes a stir at home when he offers PC Crawford the spare room.
Download Dixon Of Dock Green: Crawford's First Pinch
Some unsavoury postcards turn up on the Dock Green beat and the link to a recent spate of bicycle thefts makes Andy desperate to notch up his first arrest.some unsavoury postcards turn up on the dock green beat and the link to a recent spate of bicycle thefts makes andy desperate to notch up his first arrest.
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When things go missing from the Dixon household Doris, the downtrodden girl from next door, is exposed as a petty thief. But it's Mary Dixon who comes to her rescue, against George's wishes, and who earns the admiration of Andy Crawford.
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When a fanatical Spurs fan has his prized football rattle stolen, an FA cup tie provides the perfect excuse for a weekend away in Blackpool for Andy and Mary.
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Mary and Andy have some exciting news for George but George is nowhere to be found - and on the other side of Dock Green a desperate young man with a gun is on the run.
UNIT: THE WASTING
Date: 2005
Character: Colonel Brimmecombe-Wood
Production: Big Finish
A deadly flu-like infection is sweeping the planet. Its first cases appeared in Britain but now millions are infected worldwide and there is no sign of a cure. The emergency services can't cope with what the press have dubbed a plague…
Under attack from all sides, UNIT in Britain is in disarray. It faces a stark choice - to close its doors and concede defeat, or to fight back, whatever the cost… and the injured Colonel Emily Chaudhry knows UNIT has never backed down from a battle…
If UNIT is to fight back, it's going to need the services of its missing commander, Colonel Brimmicombe-Wood, and the experience of the Brigadier, who can never refuse when duty calls…
HOW TO BE A PIRATE
Date: 2004
Character: Narrator
Production: Hodder Audio Books
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that. Hiccup's memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy, and finding it very hard to be a Hero.
Can Hiccup find Grimbeard the Ghastly's treasure before Alvin the Treacherous gets his sneaky hands on it? And if Hiccup opens a box that says DO NOT OPEN, will he live to tell the tale?
How to Train Your Dragon is now a major DreamWorks franchise starring Gerard Butler, Cate Blanchett and Jonah Hill and the TV series, Riders of Berk, can be seen on CBeebies and Cartoon Network.
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
Date: 2004
Character: Narrator
Production: Hodder Audio Books
The story of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III's rise to fame, through his dragon-training exploits, told in Hiccup's own words by David Tennant.
Hiccup was a truly extraordinary Viking hero, warrior chieftain, awesome sword-fighter and amateur naturalist. He was known throughout Vikingdom as 'the Dragon Whisperer' on account of his power over these terrifying beasts. But it wasn't always like that....
RICHARD III
Date: 2004
Character: The Archbishop / Ghost of Henry VI
Production: Arkangel Shakespeare
Brilliantly manipulative and entirely amoral, the hero-villain Richard is one of Shakespeare's greatest roles.
The Yorkists have emerged victorious from the civil wars and Edward IV wears the English crown. But Edward's misshapen brother Richard harbors kingly ambitions and will stop at nothing to achieve the throne. In a fatal battle on Bosworth Field, Richard meets the ghosts of all whom he has murdered and the Earl of Richmond, the future King Henry VII.
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
Date: 2004
Character: Launcelot Gobbo
Production: Arkangel Shakespeare
In Shakespeare's most controversial play, the opposing values of justice and mercy must be resolved. Antonio promises money to help his friend Bassanio woo Portia. He borrows the sum needed from the cruel Shylock, but there will be a dreadful penalty if the loan is not repaid.
The golden world of Portia's Belmont calls forth some of Shakespeare's most lyrical love poetry. But the dark shadow of Shylock is never far from the heart of this brilliant comedy as it moves toward its courtroom climax.
WHITEOUT
Date: 2004
Character: Narrator
Production: Macmillan Digital Audio
A missing canister of deadly virus. A lab technician who is dangerously ill… As a blizzard whips out of the North on Christmas Eve, several people converge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, director of a pharmaceutical research company, has everything riding on a drug he is developing to fight a lethal virus. Several others are interested in his success too: his children, at home for Christmas with their offspring, have their eyes on the money he will make; Toni Gallo, head of his security team and recently forced to resign in disgrace from the police, is betting her career on keeping it safe; an ambitious local television reporter sniffs a story, even if he has to bend the facts to tell it; and a violent trio of thugs is on its way to steal it, a client already waiting. As the storm worsens and the group is laid under siege by the elements, the emotional sparks crackle. Jealousies, distrust, sexual attraction, and hidden rivalries boil to the fore, uncovering dark secrets that threaten to drive Stanley and his family apart for ever. Filled with startling twists, Whiteout is the ultimate knife-edge drama from an international bestselling author who is in a class by himself.
STARTER FOR TEN
Date: 2004
Character: Narrator
Production: Hodder and Stoughton Audio Books
It's 1985 and Brian Jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition - to make it onto TV's foremost general knowledge quiz. But no sooner has he embarked on 'The Challenge' than he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with his teammate, the beautiful and charismatic would-be actress, Alice Harbinson.
When Alice fails to fall for his slightly over-eager charms, Brian comes up with a foolproof plan to capture her heart once and for all. He's going to win the game, at any cost, because - after all - everyone knows that what a woman really wants from a man is a comprehensive grasp of general knowledge ...
QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING
Date: 2004
Character: Narrator
Production: Time Warner Audio Books
Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Heard it. Except this stiff happens to be a Ponsonby, scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan, and the manner of his death speaks of unspeakable things. Why is the body displayed like a slice of beef? How come his hands are digitally challenged? And if it's not the corpse, what is that awful smell?
A post-Thatcherite nightmare of frightening plausibility, Quite Ugly One Morning is a wickedly entertaining and vivacious thriller, full of acerbic wit, cracking dialogue and villains both reputed and shell-suited.
DOCTOR WHO: MEDICINAL PURPOSES
Date: 2004
Character: Daft Jamie
Production: Big Finish
Edinburgh, 1827.
The infamous body snatchers William Burke and William Hare are at large. The local prostitutes dull their fear with cheap whisky. The graveyard owls are hooting. Business is good.
When accidental tourists the Doctor and Evelyn Smythe stumble upon one of Britain's most lurid, illuminating chapters in history, a simple case of interest in the work of dedicated man of science Doctor Robert Knox, quickly turns sour.
Just what is that time bending Scots mist? Whatever it is may put the very fabric of the universe under threat.
As always.
DOCTOR WHO: DALEK EMPIRE III
Date: 2004
Character: Galanar
Production: Big Finish
At the end of Dalek Empire 2 - Dalek War, Galactic Union envoy Siy Tarkov set off from the planet Valyshaa with vital information warning of an imminent Dalek invasion of the galaxy.
Twenty years later, and the only proof Tarkov ever existed is a garbled message, calling for help. But no-one is listening.
THE MERLIN CONSPIRACY
Date: 2003
Character: Narrator
Production: Harper Collins
The story is narrated by two very different teenagers, who each inhabit two extraordinarily different worlds. Arianrhod Hyde's world (or Roddy, as she prefers to be called) is very much the world of magic, pageantry and ritual. Not unlike Britain in King Arthur's Day, Roddy is daughter of two Court Wizards and therefore part of the King's Progress, travelling round the Islands of Blest and ready to take part in whatever ritual or ceremony is required, as it occurs. Presiding over all, the most important person is the Merlin, who is entrusted with the magical health of the Isles of Blest.
Nick Mallory's world is much more familiar - at least it starts off being our own. But it soon transpires that Nick's not quite the ordinary 15-year-old he seems, as he slips sideways into something he thinks is a dream - but in fact is another world entirely. Now, Nick's been on other worlds before (although never alone) but he's a confident type. Maybe a bit too confident....
In Roddy's world, the current Merlin expires and a new one takes his place. Yet something is wrong - the rituals have been upset and nothing is going the way it should. Roddy needs help, and certain powers indicate that Nick is to be the one to help her. And Nick is cool about helping her - in theory...but it's a bit worrying that she seems to mistake him for a magic-user. Their stories unfold, side-by-side, each part leading into the next, and the Merlin Conspiracy thickens as the tales swirl around each other - twining, meeting, and affecting each other, yet never completely combining until the very end chapters when all is finally revealed.
Compelling, howling funny in places, mind-boggling - this is going to WOW DWJ fans all around the world (and probably in other universes too).
THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
Date: 2003
Character: Phillip Wakeman / Gypsy
Production: BBC Radio 4
Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, the clash between their expectations and her desires is painfully played out as she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her proud and stubborn brother, a close friend who is also the son of her family's worst enemy, and a charismatic but dangerous suitor. With its poignant portrayal of sibling relationships, The Mill on the Floss is considered George Eliot's most autobiographical novel; it is also one of her most powerful and moving.
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STRANGERS AND BROTHERS
Date: 2003
Character: Donald Howerd
Production: BBC Radio 4
David stars in the following episodes.
Strangers And Brothers: The Affair
In the eighth in the Strangers and Brothers series Donald Howard, a young science Fellow is charged with scientific fraud and dismissed from his college.This novel, which became a successful West End play, describes a miscarriage of justice in the same Cambridge college which served as a setting for The Masters.
Strangers And Brothers: The Corridors Of Power
The corridors and committee rooms of Whitehall are the setting for the ninth in the Strangers and Brothers series.They are also home to the manipulation of political power.Roger Quaife wages his ban-the-bomb campaign from his seat in the Cabinet and his office at the Ministry.The stakes are high as he employs his persuasiveness.
MANSFIELD PARK
Date: 2003
Character: Tom Price
Production: BBC Radio 4
Mansfield Park centres on Fanny Price, one of nine children born to a family in financial difficulties who is sent to be raised by her wealthy aunt and uncle. David Tennant and Benedict Cumberbatch play brothers Tom and Edmund, sons of Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, and cousins to Fanny. Of the two, Tom is the profligate gambler and character of ill-repute, but it is towards the gentle and kind Edmund that Fanny is drawn and with whom she forms a romantic attachment. Fanny struggles to be the social equal of her adoptive family and those in their circle, however, she is the moral centre of the story.
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THE ROTTER'S CLUB
Date: 2003
Character: Bill Trotter / Fudge
Production: BBC Radio 4
Four part adaptation of the 2001 novel by British author Jonathan Coe, set in Birmingham during the 1970s, and inspired by the author's experiences at King Edward's School, Birmingham.
POMPEII
Date: 2003
Character: Narrator
Production: BBC Radio 4
David Tennant read the Radio 4 Book At Bedtime, Pompeii by Robert Harris.
It is a historical fiction with a blend of fictional characters with the real-life eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD that overwhelmed Pompeii and its surrounding towns.
A QUICK CHANGE
Date: 2003
Character: Colin
Production: BBC Radio 4
Colin rents out his Edinburgh flat to a small theatre company for the duration of the Festival. Roped in as company dogsbody, and asked to help the actress with her quick change, he soon finds himself completely out of his depth.
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THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS
Date: 2003
Character: Dangerous Beans
Production: BBC Radio 4
The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents... Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has come up with the perfect scam. Inspired by the Pied Piper tale, cat and kid lead a band of rats from town to town to fake invasions of vermin. The rewards to get the rats out of town are plentiful. It works perfectly - until their little con game is sussed.
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CAESAR! PEELING FIGS FOR JULIUS
Date: 2003
Character: Caligula
Production: BBC Radio 4
The story of Emperor Caligula, whose name has become a byword for depravity.
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DOCTOR WHO: EXILE
Date: 2003
Character: Time Lord No. 2 / Pub landlord
Production: Big Finish
What if... the Doctor had escaped the justice of the Time Lords?
"They want to punish me for being me!"
All the Doctor has to do to avoid being caught by the Time Lords is work in a supermarket and go to the pub. It's a cunning plan - certainly far less dangerous than fighting the dreaded Quarks and all those other alien fiends.
But just when everything seemed mundane and safe, alien transmissions, exploding poison gas, Princess Anne and wobbly trolleys burst onto the scene to ruin everything. It's a crisis! A fiendish alien plot! And the Doctor must use all the resources at her disposal to defeat it.
She'll probably need to have a large vodka first, though.
DOCTOR WHO: SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
Date: 2003
Character: Colonel Brimmecombe-Wood
Production: Big Finish
1997… and a lone exile arrives on Earth, years later than planned.
On the eve of the Handover, an advanced Chinese stealth bomber crashes in the hills above Hong Kong. The discredited UNIT has just 24 hours to steal the technology, rescue the passenger and flee to international waters.
Down by the harbour, there's big trouble in Little England - a bar owned by an old soldier, who simply wants to forget the past. But an ancient evil is stirring in a place of peace.
The Doctor finds a world on the brink of terror. A world that has lived without him for years. A world that is frighteningly like our own…
ISLAND
Date: 2002
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Production: Radio 4
Nikki Black owes nobody anything. She's hard, selfish, hurt and vengeful. If only she could stop having the Fear and falling from one disaster to the next, she could possibly succeed. But a childhood in erratic care has made her unable to retain a hold on life and when she decides at 28 to kill the mother who left her on the steps of Camden Post Office as a baby, she gains a clean, clear vindictive purpose. Since the preface of Jane Rogers' sixth novel is a local news report of the murder, the tale is less a suspense novel than a whydunnit, setting off at a cracking pace, as Nikki describes her alienation from "the mummied and daddied kids" and her fury at being constantly rejected by her carers.
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THE MUSEUM
Date: 2002
Character: Brian
Production: BBC Radio 4
A Scottish student falls for a Sudanese girl, but not everything goes smoothly. With David Tennant as Brian.
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FACADE
Date: 2002
Character: William Walton
Production: BBC Radio 4
Broadcast a few days after the William Walton centenary, the play deals with his relationship with the wordsmith Edith Sitwell as they were putting together "Facade" a composite of music and verbal imagery.
DOUBLE INCOME NO KIDS YET
Date: 2002
Character: Daniel
Production: BBC Radio 4
Sitcom about a young couple, Lucy and Daniel, and their circle of friends.
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As Daniel's birthday approaches, Lucy tries to tempt their friends away from their offspring long enough for them to attend a party. With Elizabeth Carling, David Tennant, Meera Syal, Polly Frame, Toby Longworth,Tony Gardner and Joanna Brookes.
When best selling author April Prescott gets writer's block, Lucy and Daniel get lumbered with an unwelcome little house guest.
Lucy and Daniel find themselves succumbing to other people's marital problems when all they really wanted was a quiet weekend.
Poker and childbirth make for uneasy bedfellows. Nevertheless, Dan has a poker night and Lucy pretends to be a mum.
Lucy is up for a big promotion at work, but is distracted by Katie's post-natal indecision about her new baby's name.
Daniel and Lucy have been asked to be godparents, but are they right for the job? How can they refuse without damaging old friendships?
Dan isn't happy about becoming a godparent but Lucy wants to, and has even bought her new godchild a present - a Teletubby.
Lucy decides it is time to shape up. But having managed to drag Daniel to the gym, she faces an unexpected problem - how can she persuade him to leave?
When Lucy joins a school reunion website, youthful indiscretions return to haunt Daniel's best friend, Andy.
Daniel's brother suggests a night in the pub and Lucy's best friend meets a new man, thwarting their plans for a week away from other people's problems.
When their new friends invite them to a dinner party, Lucy feels that it would be nice to reciprocate. But Daniel is less than convinced.
The news that their best friends are expecting another baby produces an unexpected reaction in Lucy. Daniel is forced to turn to his mother-in-law for help.
Lucy offers to help a first-time celebrity author write a book - which turns out not to be such a good idea.
Andy and Katie have a lovely new baby, Daniel has a brilliant new job and Lucy has a horrible new feeling. Is Daniel about to leave her for a woman called Katriona who is obsessed with cheese?
Golf, holidays with friends and having a baby are the three things that Daniel and Lucy have always sworn they will never do in life. But when they find themselves on a golfing holiday with their unbearable friends they start to realise that life doesn't always turn out how you plan it.
Change is in the air when Amanda and Richard put their happy lives together on the line by becoming engaged. But when Lucy and Daniel decide to change their lives Lucy resolves not to tell anyone. What Daniel hasn't told Lucy is that he can't keep a secret.
As an expectant mother Lucy is trying to avoid stress - until she tries to gently break the news of her pregnancy to her Mum and Dad. Meanwhile Daniel gets an unwelcome taste of the joys of fatherhood.
With a new baby on the way it's time for some house improvements. So, against their friends' advice, Daniel and Lucy hire a 'reassuringly middle-class' builder called Nigel.
Friends are getting divorced, accountants are living as cavemen and eighty seven year old women are having triplets. Have Daniel and Lucy finally had enough of dealing with other people's problems?
DR FINLAY: THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF A BLACK BAG
Date: 2002
Character: McKellor
Production: BBC Radio 4
Comedy drama about an idealist young doctor who joins a surgery in Tannochbrae
DR. FINLAY: ADVENTURES OF A BLACK BAG
Date: 2001
Character: Jackson
Production: BBC Radio 4
David Tennant featured in two episodes of Dr. Finlay Adventures Of A Black Bag, The Day Dandini Came To Town and The Story Of Wee Robertson.
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DOCTOR WHO: COLDITZ
Date: 2001
Character: Feldwebel Kurtz
Production: Big Finish
October 1944: As World War II draws towards its conclusion, a Nazi defeat begins to seem almost inevitable. But that might be about to change...
Two intruders are captured in the grounds of Colditz Castle, the most secure POW camp in Germany. At first, the guards think they're dealing with British spies. But the strangers arrived in an advanced travelling machine, the like of which they've never seen before.
With this TARDIS in their hands, the Third Reich might triumph after all.
TRUECRIME
Date: 2001
Character: Narrator
Production: Whole Story Audio Books
It's thirty years since Harry Starks and his gang kept the underworld of Soho under control, but the consequences of their brutal reign are still being felt. Julie McCluskey, the actress daughter of one of Starks' victims, has grown up without a father and now that she's discovered it was money from her father's murderers that put her through drama school, she's furious. Furious with her mother for accepting it, but even more furious with Harry Starks - and she's decided she wants revenge.
HE KILLS COPPERS
Date: 2001
Character: Narrator
Production: Whole Story Audio Books
August 1966 - the long hot summer of World Cup euphoria is abruptly shattered when three policemen are gunned down in a West London street. It is a senseless crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself and brings an end to victory celebrations. Yet it also marks a beginning for three men whose fates are inextricably bound up with the event and its consequences which come to a head thirty years on: Frank Taylor, Tony Meehan, Billy Porter.
THE LONG FIRM
Date: 2001
Character: Narrator
Production: Whole Story Audio Books
London. The 1960s. The capital is swinging, but underneath the boomtown there's a dark underbelly. Meet Harry Starks: club owner, racketeer, porn king, sociology graduate and keen Judy Garland fan. Harry's business is fronting violence with rough charm and cheap glamour; putting the frighteners on, performing menace while trying to desperately trying to jump the counter into legitimacy.
Five characters tell five tales that combine in an extraordinary narrative that is both an explosively paced thriller and brilliantly imagined sociological and topographical portrait of sixties London.
SUNDAY WORSHIP
Date: 2001
Character: Himself
Production: BBC Radio 4
David Tennant presents Sunday Worship from St Stephen's Centre, Edinburgh.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Date: 2001
Character: Benedick
Production: BBC Radio 4 Play
David Tennant and Samantha Spiro star as Benedick and Beatrice in this audio adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
Shakespeare's delightful comedy sparkles with the verbal sparring of our two reluctant lovers in a world where nothing is quite what it seems.
THE SEA
Date: 2000
Character: Willy Carson
Production: BBC Radio 3
The Sea depicts a small coastal village on the east coast of England, sharply divided between ruthless order and rampant chaos. After a beloved resident of the village drowns in a storm at sea, the differing reactions of the villagers reveal a community torn apart by disputes and disorder. Willy Carson, the survivor of the tragic boating accident, stays in the village to grieve for his friend and finds himself entrapped within a hierarchical community presided over by the domineering Mrs. Rafi. Mrs. Rafi lives in the big house and represents order and respectability, surrounding herself with the twittering ladies of the village. Leading the official grieving, she finds herself at odds with the local draper, Hatch, who is continuously rebuffed and put out of pocket by the grande dame. Mad as a box of frogs, Hatch believes that aliens have infiltrated the village from another planet. He identifies Willy Carson’s sudden appearance in the village as proof of the aliens’ arrival and establishes a taskforce to spy on Willy and the wise village drunk, Evens. In a mad rage, Hatch feverishly attacks the washed up corpse of the drowned man with a knife, mistakenly believing it to be Willy sleeping on the beach. In the middle of this madness, Willy encounters Rose Jones, the fiancee of his dead companion. United in their grief, the couple realize that their only hope of moving forwards is to escape from this community and establish a life elsewhere. As Evens tells Willy to go away and find his answers some place else, Willy and Rose prepare to board their train and leave the village far behind.
HENRY VI - PART ONE, PART TWO AND PART THREE
Date: 2000
Character: Henry VI
Production: Arkangel Audio Books
David Tennant stars in this full cast audio production of Shakespeare's Henry VI Part One, Part Two and Part Three
The all-conquering King Henry V is dead and the throne is occupied by his infant son, Henry VI. The good Duke Humphrey of Gloucester has been appointed protector, but a struggle for power soon develops between the young king's Lancastrian relatives and the powerful house of York under Richard Plantagenet. Meanwhile the French, led by Joan of Arc, the maid of Orleans, threaten to win back the territories lost to Henry V.
FIRE IN THE HEART
Date: 1999
Character: Reader
Production: BBC Radio 4
David Tennant reads Fire In The Heart By John Keats on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.
THE GOLDEN TRAINGLE: THE ORDER OF RELEASE
Date: 1998
Character: John Everett Millais
Production: BBC Radio 4 Play
Back in 1998 David was featured in The Golden Triangle Part 2 - The Order Of Release which was the second of three plays about painters broadcast on Radio 4.
Ruskin and his wife Effie go on holiday on a sketching tourto Scotland with the painter Millais. Passions are aroused and their lives will never be the same again.
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THE AIRMEN WHO WOULD NOT DIE
Date: 1998
Character: Captain Raymond "Hinch" Hinchliffe
Production: BBC Radio 4 Play
The Airmen Who Would Not Die aired as part of the Saturday Playhouse. The play is 90 minutes long and was adapted for radio for Michael Crompton, based on the book by John G. Fuller.
A detailed investigation of the crash of the British dirigible R101 uncovers a famous medium's prevision of the catastrophe and the fearful warning given to another mystic concerning the airship and presents evidence of life after death.
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HEMLOCK AND AFTER
Date: 1998
Character: Eric Craddock
Production: BBC Radio 4 Play
Angus Wilson 's novel is dramatised in two parts by Michelene Wandor and stars Derek Jacobi as Bernard Sands and Anna Massey as Ella.
PAINT HER WELL
Date: 1996
Character: The Son
Production: BBC Radio 4 Play
KNOCKING ON HEAVEN'S DOOR
Date: 1994
Character: Lindsay Lerner
Production: BBC Radio 4 Play
A clap of thunder ... a howling dog.... and a ring at the doorbell. These are the three sound effects that entrants of the BBC Education Writing for Radio competition were invited to use as a plot outline for a radio play.
This is the prizewinning entry by 15-year-old Inderjeet Lalli, adapted and dramatised by Michael Butt.
THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
Date: 1993
Character: Policeman
Production: BBC Radio 4 Play
Robert Louis Stevenson 's classic story of unleashed evil, starring
Alexander Morton as both Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Tom Fleming as Legion.
Dramatised by Robert Forrest
THE FIFTY FRIENDS OF SIMON GOBERSCHMITT
Date: 1993
Character: Raymond
Production: BBC Radio 4 Play
Mrs Urquhart has a mystery lodger, a foreign gentleman who gets stacks of mail from all round the world. For three other lodgers, Mr Goberschmitt becomes an obsession.
David Tennant has a varied career in audio work. He has played a number of parts in radio plays including Benedict in the BBC adaptation of Much A Do About Nothing, and the lead in the highly successful successful Radio 4 show, Double Income No Kids Yet.
He has recorded many parts for the Big Finish Doctor Who Series and narrated many talking books including the popular How To Train Your Dragon and Wizard Of Once series by Cressida Cowell.
David has also reprised his role as the Tenth Doctor for a series of Big Finish audio books alongside his Doctor Who co-stars Billie Piper and Catherine Tate.