Added by: badaboom | Karma: 5364.29 | Fiction literature | 30 November 2011
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Doctor Who Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury
Celebrate a Doctor Who Christmas with this luxury treasury of stories, poems, games and recipes for all the family.
Join the Doctor as he visits a Christmas truce in the trenches, gets caught up in an alien plot concerning the recording of Do They Know It’s Christmas? and even manages last-minute shopping in Oxford Street!
From heartwarming to heartbreaking, witty pastiches to chilling ghost stories, these tales are the perfect seasonal journey into time and space.
There was a time when some bacon fat and flour were thought to heal a bad bruise, and internal bleeding was remedied by wearing a dried toad around one’s neck. In The Doctor, students will get the lowdown on the life of a doctor practicing during the Middle Ages. Focusing on the different beliefs and practices carried out by members of this important profession, this lively program investigates the role that religion and social status played in curing everyday maladies,
Stephen Cole - Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned
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. And yet he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast...
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. Meanwhile, the Doctor steals a motorbike and stages a jailbreak. Well, how hard can it be to find the TARDIS, rescue Donna, and negotiate a peace?
Simon Messingham - Doctor Who: The Day of the Troll
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.
