Tag Archives: Louise Jameson

Doctor Who: He Who Fights With Monsters. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jonathon Carley, Ken Bones, Nicholas Briggs, Richie Daysh, Indigo Griffiths, Louise Jameson, Harry Kershaw, Nicholas Le Provost, Emily-Jane-McNeill, Jason Merrells, Paksie Vernon.

Should we stare into the abyss knowing that the monster that looks back with sorrow is on the side we have taken in the battle, or do we face the war on our own knowing we strode the high line between two opposing monstrous factions, that He Who Fights With Monsters is divided by fate and the fury of a future as yet unknown.

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(515 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Unbound: Doctor of War 2: Destiny. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Colin Baker, Geoffrey Beevers, Nicholas Briggs, Terry Molloy, Jason Forbes, Philip Hurd-Wood, Louise Jameson, Akshay Khanna, Lara Lemon, Nichola McAuliffe, Deeivya Meir, Sadie Miller, Remmie Milner, Christopher Naylor, Justin Salinger, Anna Savva, Alisdair Simpson.

Eventually the path that should have been taken will reveal itself once more, another chance, another shot of redemption, for Destiny in the hands of the deserving is seldom a one-off affair, for the responsibility of the name is what providence and fate hold dear, a tethered connection, substantial, unreserved, unbound by the road less travelled; for a hero and a good person will always find the right path in the end.

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(527 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

McDonald & Dodds: A Billion Beats. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jason Watkins, Tala Gouveia, Jack Riddiford, Claire Skinner, Lily Sacofsky, Danyal Ismail, Paul McGann, Ben Batt, Daisy Bevan, Kelvin Fletcher, Paul Forman, Naoki Mori, John Omole, Bluey Robinson, Bill Skinner, Bridgitta Roy, Nino Furuhata, Louise Jameson.

There are sports that seem universally embraced and then there are those that to a proportion of the population is not for them, that is not only fuelled by a passion that defies logic, but can seem reckless, spoiled by money, out of the realms to ordinary men and women, and in the case of motor racing, is all about the one second glimpse of the vehicle, a second in which A Billion Beats of the heart can seem to be over in a flash.

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(490 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Doctor Who. Dalek Universe: The Dalek Protocol.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, John Leeson, Jane Slavin, Joe Simms, Jez Felder, Anna Mitcham, Nicholas Briggs.

Every ending must have a beginning, and every person you have ever said goodbye to, at some point said hello for the first time, such is the issue with Time that sometimes it can feel as though these moments are the wrong way round, maybe even inside out, and our minds have to catch up, have to adapt, or we might find that Time will find a way to erase us from the future to come.

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(422 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Midsomer Murders: The Wolf Hunter Of Little Worthy. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Louise Jameson, Maimie McCoy, Mark Williams, Siobhan Redmond, Poppy Gilbert, Mollie Harris, Ferdinand Kingsley, Kojo Attah, Brian Bovell, Lee Byford, Kadell Herida, Ruth Horrocks, Sinead Matthews, Mat McCooey.

Every village has its myth, its local legend, and if doesn’t then it should take a leaf out of the playbook of the long running and popular series, Midsomer Murders.

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(537 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

The Mousetrap, Theatre Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Louise Jameson, Anna Andresen, Nick Barclay, Tony Boncza, Lewis Collier, Gregory Cox, Amy Downham, Oliver Gully.

Arguably Agatha Christie’s name will last in the annals of English Literature history as long as William Shakespeare’s and will always be as revered to her fans as the Bard of Stratford-Upon-Avon. It is easy to see why, the cold calculating pace of her mysteries, the beloved nature of two of her famous creations so entrenched in television’s grasp that they sell world-wide with ease and the secrecy installed in a play that might never see the light of day beyond the confines of theatre; it is to that end that Agatha Christie’s name will always be celebrated and whispered, the mistress of crime and the bogeyman all in one terrific role.

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(458 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Fate of Krelos/Return To Telos. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, John Leeson, Frazer Hines, Michael Cochrane, Veronica Roberts, Bernard Holley, Nicholas Briggs.

The name Telos is enough to have long term fans of Doctor Who reaching for the nearest bottle of glee and asking their friends and neighbours to pour it all over them without hesitation or complaint. Telos, the stuff of legends, it’s up there with Mondas and St. Paul’s Cathedral in terms of iconic homes for the Cybermen.

Revisiting Telos though is problematic for The Doctor, for a start getting in the way of a previous incarnation is always going to stir up agitation.

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(506 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Cloisters Of Terror. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Rowena Cooper, Richenda Carey, Claudia Grant, Allison McKenzie, Jane Slavin.

When young women start go missing from St. Matilda’s College in Oxford, the police are to be summoned to help explain the disappearance; help arrives but not in the way it was expected, and neither is the sense of the problem at hand.

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(376 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: Suburban Hell. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish Audio.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Annette Badland, Katy Wix, Alix Dunmore, Raymond Coulthard, David Ricardo-Pearce.

 

There is surely one place and one set of foes more terrifying than a fleet of Daleks rampaging from the torment that is Skaro, the Cybermen climbing out of their icy wombs, the spiders of Metabelis 3 or the arch devil himself himself The Master burnt to a crisp and finding the best way to groom a beard and that is the nightmare that would make them all quiver in fright, the suburban middle-class themed party, the fear that dominates the Suburban Hell.

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

Doctor Who: Death Match. Audio Drama Review, Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, John Leeson, Geoffrey Beevers, Susan Brown, Damien Lynch, Andy Secombe, Chris Porter.

Death has always walked side by side with The Doctor that at times its hard to see where the join might be. One such clue is where the rotting shell of The Master is, Death surely is playing a more dangerous game with him than with the Doctor.

Following on directly from John Dorney’s Requiem For The Space Men, Death Match is a suitable sequel in which Big Finish asks the pertinent questions of what it means to be entertained.

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(493 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)