Nicholas Briggs has narrated 43 audiobooks on Listento.it by 38 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 75 ratings. The most-rated is Doctor Who: Ninth Doctor Novels.
Sherlock Holmes - The Ordeals of Sherlock Holmes
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Four decades. Four cases. One solution. From the plains of Afghanistan to the alleyways of Victorian London, from the dark heart of the English countryside to the ruin of Europe after the Great War, join Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson in a quartet of astonishing new investigations which span their lifelong friendship and beyond....
©2013 Big Finish Productions (P)2013 Big Finish Productions
Dalek Empire - 1.3 Death to the Daleks!
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Suz decides it is time to take control of events. But when she is summoned to an audience with the Dalek Emperor, she begins to fear that all her efforts have been in vain. Meanwhile, Earth Alliance Security commander in chief Tanlee is intent on locating Alby. The Dalek advance across the galaxy seems unstoppable, and the only possibility of salvation for the human race lies in the Lopra System. But how can Alby help when no one will tell him the purpose of Project Infinity? Written & directed by Nicholas Briggs.
©2001 Big Finish Productions (P)2001 Big Finish Productions
Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles (Dramatized)
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The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adapted by Richard Dinnick. Young Dr. Mortimer ventures from Devonshire to Baker Street with news of the death of his friend, Sir Charles Baskerville. Can it really be that the grisly legend of the hound of the Baskervilles might have something to do with the case? Holmes will have none of it, but even he must accept that dark forces are at work. Dark forces that, it seems, Dr. Watson must face alone...afoot!
©2011 Big Finish Productions (P)2011 Big Finish Productions
Daleks Destroy: The Secret Invasion and Other Stories
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Dalek invasion is imminent! Attention: the war against the Daleks continues apace in this new collection of vintage stories from the pen of their creator, Terry Nation. Our successful defence of the galaxy depends on all Anti-Dalek Force agents staying informed of the latest events, in outer space and on a variety of alien planets. That information can be found here! Intrepid ADF agents Nicholas Briggs, Terry Molloy, Steven Pacey and Jon Culshaw relate a series of terrifying adventures - The Castaway, The Solution, The Secret Invasion and The Seeds of Destruction - and issue special briefings including Dalek Terminology, Dalography of Skaro, Recent Findings on the Moon and The Dalek War Machines. All material is authenticated from Terry Nation's Dalek Annuals and other books. Whether in present day London or on further-flung shores, the battle with the Daleks is all around us. Listen now or be exterminated! Text © Terry Nation 1965, 1978, 1979 Cover images © BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 2020 PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
Tom Baker at 80
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In January 2014, Tom Baker celebrated his 80th birthday. In March 2014, Tom sat down with Nicholas Briggs to look back over his 80 amazing years - his youth, his early acting career, his great success with Doctor Who and beyond...and his return to his most famous role with Big Finish. This candid and intimate interview forms two fascinating hours of engaging entertainment in the unique company of Mr. Baker.
©2014 Big Finish Productions (P)2014 Big Finish Productions
Dalek Empire - 1.2 The Human Factor
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Alby Brook and Gordon Pellan are following the best information they have to locate Suz in Dalek-infested space. But what is it the Daleks want with her? On the slave planet Guria, Alby discovers Suz is already gaining a reputation as something of an angel of mercy. Could it be that she is now working for the Daleks? But as Suz and Kalendorf travel from planet to planet, a murmur of defiance is growing.... Death to the Daleks! Death to the Daleks! Written & directed by Nicholas Briggs.
©2001 Big Finish Productions (P)2001 Big Finish Productions
Dalek Attack: Blockade & Other Stories from the Doctor Who Universe
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The Daleks are back! The ruthless creatures of hate return to menace the galaxy in a further collection of vintage stories from Terry Nation’s Dalek Annuals. Urgent message to all Anti-Dalek Force agents: the battle continues! Vital examples of the continued defence effort are included in this new volume of stories featuring Daleks and the brave humans who fight against them. Special ADF agents Nicholas Briggs, Matthew Waterhouse, Louise Jameson and Jon Culshaw read five tales of adventure - 'The Fugitive', 'Assassination Squad', 'Blockade', 'The Planet That Cried "Wolf!"' and 'Nightmare' - alongside factual briefings including 'Anatomy of a Dalek' and 'Davros: Genius or Madman'. All material is authenticated from Terry Nation's Dalek Annuals of the 1970s. Remember, it is your duty to stay informed of progress in the ongoing battle between humans and Daleks!
©2019 Terry Nation (P)2019 BBC Worldwide Ltd
The Human Frontier: Series 1
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One crew takes the long route, sleeping for 1,000 years, in secret, on a ship called The Human Frontier. The other crew set off hundreds of years later, at hyper speed. When the sleepers wake as they approach the planet, the hyper-speed crew have been living there for 300 years already - and they have no clue the ‘sleepers’ are about to arrive. Part One: Possibility of Life Two awakenings. One is unexpected, the other is a dire emergency. One brings love. Both bring danger. This is the voyage of The Human Frontier. Part Two: Nowhere Near Neptune There’s a world called Triton. Its people have a long history of struggle and suffering. And they’ve never heard of The Human Frontier. Part Three: Machine Minds Anna Swift discovers the secret future history of Earth. And Triton discovers the secret past of The Human Frontier. Part Four: Control Is it the Tritons, Nilly, Planet Five...? Who is in control? And what does the future hold for The Human Frontier? Director: Nicholas Briggs Producer: Emma Haigh Executive Producers: Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs The Human Frontier is a trademark of Red Raygun Ltd.
©2020 Big Finish Productions (P)2020 Big Finish Productions
Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet
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An unabridged reading of this classic novelisation featuring the First Doctor's original encounter with the Cybermen.
The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Ben and Polly to a space tracking station in the Antarctic - and straight into trouble. A space mission is going badly wrong, and a new planet has appeared in the sky.
Mondas, ancient fabled twin planet of Earth, has returned. Soon its inhabitants arrive. But while they used to be just like the humans of Earth, now they are very different. Devoid of emotions, their bodies replaced with plastic and steel, the Cybermen are here.
Humanity needs all the help it can get, but as the Cybermen take over, the Doctor is dying....
Gerry Davis' novelisation of his own 1966 TV serial describes the lead-up to the Doctor's first ever regeneration.
©2017 BBC Worldwide Ltd (P)2017 BBC Worldwide Ltd
Doctor Who - Human Resources Part 1
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Lucie Miller's been headhunted to join the staff of Hulbert Logistics, a respectable blue-chip firm in Telford. Great prospects, competitive salary - you don't have to be mad to work here! But wasn't she made for better things, like travelling by TARDIS through time and space? The Doctor, meanwhile, has been fired - into a confrontation with the most terrifying of enemies.... The adventure continues in Doctor Who - Human Resources Part 2. Written by Eddie Robson and directed by Nicholas Briggs.
©2007 Big Finish Productions (P)2007 Big Finish Productions
Doctor Who: Twelve Angels Weeping
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Twelve Angels Weeping written by Dave Rudden, and read by the author, Pippa Bennett-Warner and Nicholas Briggs. Twelve extraordinary Doctor Who stories, each featuring a monstrous villain from the Doctor Who world. On every planet that has existed or will exist, there is a winter.... Many of the peoples of Old Earth celebrated a winter festival. A time to huddle together against the cold; a time to celebrate being halfway out of the dark. But shadows are everywhere, and there are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things, lurking in the cold between the stars. Here are 12 stories - one for each of the 12 Days of Christmas - to remind you that to come out of the darkness we need to go into it in the first place. We are not alone. We are not safe. And, whatever you do: don't blink.
©2018 BBC Worldwide Ltd (P)2018 Penguin Books Ltd
Doctor Who - Destiny of the Doctor - The Time Machine
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Twenty-third November 2013. In an Oxford laboratory, graduate Alice Watson helps Professor Chivers assemble the final pieces of an impossible machine. A time machine. The scientist and his assistant believe they are making history, little suspecting that the project's completion will threaten the existence of the entire universe. But someone has sensed the danger, and when the mysterious Doctor arrives, Alice is taken on a desperate race from libraries and dreaming spires all the way to the nightmare world of Earth's future. The monstrous Creevix are coming. They seek control of time itself and are certain that the Doctor is already too late to stop them. But can the key to saving the future lie in the Time Lord's past lives? Written by Matt Fitton and directed by John Ainsworth.
©2013 AudioGo/Big Finish Productions (P)2013 Big Finish Productions
Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner
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It is the long, oppressive summer of 1912. Four months ago the RMS Titanic was lost to the Atlantic. In Europe the drumbeats of war grow louder. These things have yet to touch Mr. Sherlock Holmes who, estranged from Dr. Watson, lives in reclusive retirement on the South Downs. The world’s foremost criminal investigator has turned his back on the past, hiding from the world and thinking himself immune to its excesses. Yet he is about to be faced by an old friend, to encounter the most hated man in England and to grapple with the painful implications of the Titanic disaster. More troubling still, he will be forced to try to solve a new and unexpected mystery - one of the most diabolical and fiendish murders with which he has ever been confronted....
©2012 Big Finish Productions (P)2012 Big Finish Productions
Doctor Who: Judgement of the Judoon
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An exciting adventure for the 10th Doctor, read by Nicholas Briggs. Elvis the King Spaceport has grown into the sprawling city-state of New Memphis - an urban jungle, where organized crime is rife. But the launch of the new Terminal 13 hasn't been as smooth as expected. When the Doctor arrives, he finds the whole terminal locked down! The notorious Invisible Assassin is at work again, and the Judoon troopers sent to catch him will stop at nothing to complete their mission. With the assassin loose on the mean streets of New Memphis, the Doctor is forced into a strange alliance. Together with teenage private-eye Nikki and a ruthless Judoon Commander, the Doctor soon discovers that things are even more complicated - and dangerous - than he first thought.
©2010 BBC Audiobooks Ltd (P)2010 BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
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Terry Molloy reads this brand new novelisation of the classic television adventure featuring the Fifth Doctor.
The TARDIS is ensnared in a time corridor, catapulting it into derelict docklands on 20th century Earth. The Doctor and his companions, Tegan and Turlough, stumble on a warehouse harbouring fugitives from the future at the far end of the corridor – and are soon under attack from a Dalek assault force.
The Doctor’s oldest enemies have set in motion an intricate and sinister plot to resurrect their race from the ashes of an interstellar war. For the Daleks’ plans to succeed, they must set free their creator, Davros, from a galactic prison – and force the Doctor to help them achieve total control over time and space. But the embittered Davros has ideas of his own....
35 years after its first TV transmission, Doctor Who fan-favourite Resurrection of the Daleks is novelised at last, by the author of the original script, Eric Saward.
Terry Molloy, who played Davros in the BBC TV series, reads the novelisation, with Dalek voices by Nicholas Briggs.
©2019 BBC Worldwide Ltd (P)2019 BBC Worldwide Ltd
Doctor Who: Illegal Alien
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An unabridged reading of this original novel featuring the Seventh Doctor, as played on TV by Sylvester McCoy, and Ace in an encounter with the Cybermen.
The Blitz is at its height. As the Luftwaffe bomb London, Cody McBridge, expat American private eye, sees a sinister silver sphere crash-land. He glimpses something emerging from within.
The military dismiss his account of events - the sphere must be a new German secret weapon that has malfunctioned. What else could it be?
Arriving amid the chaos, the Doctor and Ace embark on a trail that brings them face to face with hidden Nazi agents and some very old enemies....
©2016 BBC Worldwide Ltd. (P)2016 BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Doctor Who: Nuclear Time
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‘My watch is running backwards.’ Colorado, 1981. The Doctor, Amy, and Rory arrive in Appletown - an idyllic village in the remote American desert where the townsfolk go peacefully about their suburban routines. But when two more strangers arrive, things begin to change. The first is a mad scientist - whose warnings are cut short by an untimely and brutal death. The second is the Doctor....
As death falls from the sky, the Doctor is trapped. The TARDIS is damaged, and the Doctor finds he is living backwards through time. With Amy and Rory being hunted through the suburban streets of the Doctor’s own future and getting farther away with every passing second, he must unravel the secrets of Appletown before time runs out....
A thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy, and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.
©2010 Oli Smith (P)2010 AudioGO Ltd
Doctor Who - Phantasmagoria
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The Tardis takes the Doctor and Turlough to the London of 1702, where a mysterious highwayman roams the streets, a local occultist has made contact with the dead and gentlemen of fashion are disappearing, only to find themselves in a chamber whose walls weep blood.... The time travellers become enmeshed in the hideous plan of Sir Nikolas Valentine, a gambler at the mysterious Diabola Club who always seems to have a winning hand.... Written by Mark Gatiss. Directed by Nicholas Briggs.
©1999 Big Finish Productions (P)1999 Big Finish Productions
The Worlds of Big Finish
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From the streets of Edwardian London to the corridors of a near-infinite library in the distant future, a single book holds the key to the fate of life on Earth. Some believe it predicts our future - and the apocalypse - with unnerving accuracy. Others will stop at nothing to destroy it and will chase it from one side of the universe to the other, from a country house in the Roaring '20s to the casinos of Mars and from 221B Baker Street to the terrifying desert world of Sisyphus IX.... Featuring Abby and Zara, Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Gray, Iris Wildthyme, Vienna Salvatori and Bernice Summerfield, The Worlds of Big Finish brings together some of Big Finish's best-loved characters in an adventure spanning thousands of years! This release includes a bonus documentary, Round the Worlds, where director Scott Handcock leads a roundtable discussion with writer and cast about this special adventure, plus a selection of outtakes from recording. Directed by Scott Handcock.
©2015 Big Finish Productions (P)2015 Big Finish Productions
Doctor Who - Dalek Generation
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"The Sunlight Worlds Offer You A Life of Comfort and Plenty. Apply now at the Dalek Foundation." Sunlight 349 is one of countless Dalek Foundation worlds, planets created to house billions suffering from economic hardship. The Doctor arrives at Sunlight 349, suspicious of any world where the Daleks are apparently a force for good - and determined to find out the truth. The Doctor knows they have a far more sinister plan - but how can he convince those who have lived under the benevolence of the Daleks for a generation? But convince them he must, and soon. For on another Foundation planet, archaeologists have unearthed the most dangerous technology in the universe... A thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor as played by Matt Smith in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.
©2013 Nicholas Briggs (P)2013 AudioGO Ltd