Doctor Who: Harry Sullivan's War
Beyond the Doctor
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Narrated by:
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Christopher Naylor
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By:
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Ian Marter
About this listen
Christopher Naylor reads this original novel featuring the Doctor's former companion in his own adventure.
It's ten years since Harry Sullivan left UNIT and gave up his travels in the TARDIS with the Doctor and Sarah Jane.
Since then he has been engaged in top secret work, developing antidotes to nerve toxins. But when he is transferred to Yarra in the Hebrides to work on weapons research, he has severe misgivings. For one thing, it goes against much of what he believes in. For another, someone is out to kill Harry Sullivan.
Who wants Harry safely out of the way? What significance does Van Gogh painting have? And can Harry's old friend, the Brigadier, really be involved in a scheme which threatens the security of the Western World?
Reading produced by Morrison Ellis. Sound design by Oliver Denman. Executive producer for BBC Audiobooks: Michael Stevens
The novel’s chief strength lies in its characterisation of its protagonist. Ian Marter, intimately familiar with Harry from his time on-screen, depicts him exceptionally well here. While the narrative sometimes leans on Harry’s comedic clumsiness—a recurring element when he was with the Doctor—it also captures his good-natured, innocent charm. Harry’s well-intentioned, bumbling heroics as he tackles perilous situations evoke the suspense and tone of classics like ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ and ‘North by Northwest’.
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Epic Narrator!
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Clearly the writer didn’t like women and thought of them as just fluff that is there to bat eyelids at him and try things on while having no character and are also quite happy to be treated like they are a piece of filth yet still be madly in love. (Madly being the operative word).
At one point “Harry” being affected by something that won’t kill him tries halfheartedly to save a girl who just saved him and decides he’d rather drive off and leave her to die saying he will come back with help. Next you know he’s driving to Edinburgh! Goes in a train gets loads of food. Goes home. Sleeps. Doesn’t care he’s left her to die. I read the writer (the chap who played Harry Sullivan in Doctor WHO) wanted to kill Harry off in this book. But he wasn’t allowed.
I honestly wish he had. But in the beginning chapter so I didn’t have to listen to any more of it. I would happily have paid a credit to NOT listen to this.
Rubbish.
Please don’t make my mistake and listen to this drivel.
Garbage. Misogynistic rubbish
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