Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks: 4th Doctor Novelisation [CD-Audio]

Jon Culshaw reads this exciting classic novelisation of a Fourth Doctor TV adventure, featuring the first appearance of the Daleks’ creator, Davros.

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The place: Skaro
Time: The Birth of the Daleks

After a thousand years of futile war against the Thals, the scientist Davros has perfected the physical form that will carry his race into eternity: the dreaded Dalek. Without feeling, conscience or pity, the Dalek is programmed to exterminate all lifeforms it deems inferior.

At the command of the Time Lords, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry travel back through time in an effort to totally destroy this terrible menace of the future. But as events spiral out of control in horrific ways, it becomes clear that even the Doctor cannot always win...

Jon Culshaw reads Terrance Dicks’s complete and unabridged novelisation, based upon the 1975 TV serial by Terry Nation, first published by Target Books in 1976. Duration: 4 hours approx.

Terrance Dicks (Author)
Terrance Dicksworked on scripts forThe Avengersas well as other series before becoming full Script Editor ofDoctor Whofrom 1968. Dicks worked on the Jon Pertwee Third Doctor era of the programme, and returned as a writer – scripting Tom Baker's first story as the Fourth Doctor:Robot. Terrance Dicks novelised many of the originalDoctor Whostories for Target books, and has written originalDoctor Whonovels for BBC Books.

Nicholas Briggs (Reader)
Nicholas Briggs has been a prolificDoctor Whocontributor since 1999, when he began work on the Big FinishDoctor Whoaudio dramas, for which he has written and directed extensively and is now Executive Producer. Nick is also an actor, and sinceDoctor Who’s return to television in 2005, he’s worked on set with all four of the new Doctors as tlÄ