Tag Archives: Ingrid Oliver

Doctor Who: Once and Future – Past Lives. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Baker, Sadie Miller, Jemma Redgrave, Ingrid Oliver, Rufus Hound, Ewan Bailey, Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, Stephen Noonan, Dan Starkey, Tim Treloar, Michael Troughton.

Stories are important, they are magical, they are a link to our past and our determination to see the future shaped in our image. Once a story has been silenced it becomes myth, the unspoken, the heritage of the speaker denied…but some tales persist in Time, they become the backdrop to our society, to our history and the dream that such days can once more return.

Doctor Who: Once and Future – Past Lives. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish. full post

(643 words, estimated 2:34 mins reading time)

Beyond Paradise. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kris Marshall, Sally Breton, Zahra Ahmadi, Dylan Llewellyn, Felicity Montague, Barbara Flynn, Jamie Bamber, Jade Harrison, Annette Badland, Ingrid Oliver, Phil Daniels, Monserat Lombard, Ruth Madoc, Pooky Quesnel, Marcia Warren, Samantha Spiro, Don Warrington, Ralf Little, Shantol Jackson, Tahj Miles, Spencer Jones.

“Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.”

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(656 words, estimated 2:37 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Redacted. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Charlie Craggs, Lois Chimimba, Holly Quin-Ankrah, Jodie Whittaker, Anji Mohindra, Jacon Hawley, Siena Kelly, Kieran Hodgson, Juno Dawson, Clare Perkins, Sarah Thom, Findlay Robertson, Jemma Redgrave, Ingrid Oliver, Doon Mackichan, Natasha Hodgson, Pip Gladwin, Karim Kronfli, Ken Chang, Alasdair Beckett-King, Ambika Mod.

The extremeness of erasing a life from existence is not as simple as it may seem. For all the people, rightly or wrongly ‘cancelled’ by society because of ill-thought, of a perceived tone of voice when explaining a situation, or because deep down we find their presence to not agree with our judgement of society, the way some have come to believe that a 1984 like world can exist if we scour away all those that defy our perception and image we wish to project.

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(568 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

The Watch. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Richard Dormer, Lara Rossi, Adam Hugill, Marama Corlett, Jo Eaton-Kent, Samuel Adewunmi, Bianca Simone Mannie, Craig Macrae, Wendell Price, Joe Vaz, Shane John Kruger, Anna Chancellor, Paul Kaye, Natalie Walsh, Matt Berry, Marc Hyland, Ingrid Oliver, Ralph Ineson, Trevor Frost, Russell Crous, Ruth Madeley, James Fleet, Jonathan Pienaar, Tarryn Wyngaard, Hakeem Kae-Kazim.

If the Devil is in the detail, then it must have taken one hell of a being to come up with the intricacies that lay in the world of Ankh-Morpork, and the realm that encompasses Discworld.

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(552 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Party’s Over. Radio Comedy Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Miles Jupp, Ingrid Oliver, Emma Sidi, Justin Edwards, Rosie Cavaliero, Adam Riches.

You may feel at times like a fish out of water, a nobody masquerading as a human being, attempting to be interesting, trying your best to get through life and not fouling up to the point where you become a social embarrassment, where everybody disowns you or finds ways to shout obscenities at you; even if you did your best to be liked, to be on the side of angels.

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(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Zygon Inversion. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Ingrid Oliver, Jemma Redgrave, Nicholas Asbury, Aiden Cook, Tom Wilton, Jack Parker, Nicholas Briggs.

If you want to defeat an enemy then talk their language, if you wish to save the world from destruction, then learn the art of co-existence, learn to have true and meaningful discourse.

For the world in which The Doctor inhabits is not one to be given up lightly. It is not a world of continued aggression, it is one where things can be achieved if people are willing to talk, willing to sacrifice something more than their humanity, something more powerful than the ability to change; it is not an invasion but a peace that can be sought and won.

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(427 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Zygon Invasion. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Ingrid Oliver, Jemma Redgrave, Jaye Griffiths, Cleopatra Dickens, Rebecca Front, Abhishek Singh, Samila Kularatne, Todd Kramer, Jill Winternitz, Gretchen Egolf, Karen Mann, Aiden Cook, Tom Wilton.

The world is replete with the tales of the fear of losing one’s identity, of having it usurped, stolen, by another and seeing it misused, misappropriated and driven to the edge of a psychological breakdown; it is the story that has been the inspiration behind so many science fiction stories and the very real and perhaps just as imagined terror that led to the insanity of the McCarthy Trials in the attempt to root out so called Communists in American life.

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(558 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

The Day Of The Doctor, Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Matt Smith, David Tennant, John Hurt, Jenna Coleman, Billie Piper, Jemma Redgrave, Joanna Page, Ingrid Oliver, Ken Bones, Nicholas Briggs, Jonjo O’Neill, Orlando James, Aiden Cook, Paul Kasey, Peter de Jersey, Tom Keller, Ankur Sengupta, Tom Baker, Peter Capaldi.

The Day of The Doctor…Thanks to the way the B.B.C. has taken very seriously the notion of the longest running science fiction programme of all time turning 50 years old, it’s been more like several months of snippet here, a smidgen of misinformation there, the release of a rumour, conjecture, assumption and speculation.

The Day Of The Doctor, Television Review. B.B.C. Television. full post

(489 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)