Baker's End: The King of Cats
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Baker's End: The King of Cats
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Narrated by:
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Tom Baker
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Katy Manning
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Susan Jameson
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David Benson
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By:
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Paul Magrs
About this listen
Former Doctor Who star Tom Baker stars as himself, Tom Baker, in a series of bedazzling audio adventures from the pen of Paul Magrs (Doctor Who, The Brenda and Effie Mysteries): Baker's End.
Peevish actors are descending mournfully upon the remote English village of Happenstance for the funeral of TV legend Tom Baker. His one-time costar Suzy Goshawk is sucked into a parochial vortex of intrigue involving the quailsome local vicar, Tom's acidulous housekeeper Mrs Frimbly and various other fruminous scumblebums. None of them can agree upon how Tom met his disastrous end, and Suzy is starting to suspect that something murksome and swervish is going on.
The snow comes down, and Suzy finds herself trapped at Baker's End for Christmas, with all the village's creepy pensioners enslaved by a strange, dancing dragon...and a Sinister Presence lurking on the sidelines.
Why are old ladies twerking their bottoms outside the post office-cum-mini-mart? Why is the vicar creeping about in the bushes in the dead of night? And why, just when all looks hopeless, does a strange, scobberlotching creature spring into view? Who exactly is the King of Cats in his furry costume and his battered golden crown?
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Critic reviews
"Beautifully bizarre and laugh-out-loud funny, writer Paul Magrs wonderfully baroque dialogue suggests the star himself may have had some input.... A riotous, fantastical, absurdist romp then.... 82-year-old Tom has never sounded more at home than in Baker's End." ( Edinburgh Evening News)
"Giggle-inducingly joyous listening.... Top wordsmithery on the part of the lovely Mister Magrs, beautifully realised by the cast and crew.... Highly recommended listening, if you like the clever, the silly, and the downright delightfully batty." ( We Are Cult)
Totally bonkers!
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Bafflegab have produced some of the very best audio dramas (The Scarifyers) and once again they have teamed up with writer Paul Magrs (The Brenda and Effie Mysteries) for Baker’s End.The story starts when Suzy Goshawk (narrator + played by Katy Manning) travels to Happenstance for Tom Baker’s funeral (played by himself), but not all as it seems.
Some stories are predictable, this is not. It’s bonkers and a highly enjoyable listen.
Episode 01 - King of Cats
Episode 02 - Gobbleknoll Hall
Episode 03 - Tatty Bogle
Only three episodes have been produced so far, but I do hope the saga of Baker’s End continues……..
Bafflegab + Paul Magrs = Pure Joy
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Hilarious
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Thank you. Please do more.
Dr Who for almost grown ups
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It's Weird. Gloriously weird..
It has Tom Baker playing a version of himself so over the top he's practically half way down the other side. It has the lovely Katy Manning playing the straight woman to Tom's lunacy. It has a talented supporting cast playing the eccentric villagers of Happenstance, where murksome deeds are beginning to unfold.
Mostly it has a mad plot that veered from the bizarre (the various versions of just how Tom died) to the downright ludicrous (the acolytes of Clacky the Dragon and where they keep their weapons, not to mention just what incantation our heroes use to save the day) by it's end.
I absolutely loved it. :)
Fudgeknocking bonkers..and earns it's five stars.
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