Doctor Who audio books, starring David Tennant's Tenth Doctor

If you're only looking for audiobooks read by David Tennant, here's your list! There's really no substitute for hearing David Tennant as The Doctor, and he does a great job voicing other characters as well.

NOTE: David Tennant also narrated "The Feast of the Drowned," a Doctor/Rose book. Unfortunately, the audio version isn't available on Amazon, but they do have the print version if you're interested.

Doctor Who: Dead Air
Running time: 1 hour, 12 min.
Product Description: At the bottom of the sea, in the wreck of a floating radio station, a lost recording has been discovered. After careful restoration, it is played for the first time - to reveal the voice of the Doctor, broadcasting from Radio Bravo in 1966. He has traveled to Earth in search of the Hush - a terrible weapon that kills, silences and devours anything that makes noise.

Doctor Who: The Last Voyage
Running time: 2 hours, 14 min.
Product Description: The TARDIS materializes on board the maiden voyage of a pioneering space cruiser, traveling from Earth to the planet Eternity. The Doctor has just started exploring the vehicle when there is a loud bang, a massive jolt and a flash of light. Shortly afterward, he discovers that nearly all the passengers and crew have disappeared.

Doctor Who: The Day of the Troll
Running time: 2 hours, 17 min.
Product Description: When the Doctor arrives in England, 2073, he's in for a nasty shock. Instead of the greatest party ever held in the Solar System (according to the guide), he finds a time of famine and world starvation. Even worse, something is coming out of the ground to steal people away...

Doctor Who: Pest Control
Running time: 2 hours and 26 min.
Product Description: The Doctor and Donna find themselves in the thick of trouble on a distant planet, where soldiers transform into monstrous beetles, and everyone falls under the threat of a huge, mechanical exterminator.

Doctor Who: The Stone Rose
Length: 2 hours and 22 min.
Product Description: Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum; a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realises that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose soon have more on their minds than sculpture.

Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket
Length: 2 hours and 29 min.
Product Description: Starfall: a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. And that includes the TARDIS.

An audiobook probably seemed like the perfect format for a story about an intelligent sound-creature that kills, but I can't help thinking that this idea would have worked better as an episode of the show. The premise is clever and the end is satisfying, but some of the time in between dragged a bit. While the story reminded me of "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead", the tension was often absent; it was too easy to forget that the characters were wandering through a dark and largely deserted ship. But the tale did have its moments -- some that made me laugh and some that gave me chills. And kudos to David Tennant for his narration, even if the character of Tommo did remind me entirely too much of Zaphod Beeblebrox. I'd call this one entertaining, but not essential listening for casual fans of The Doctor.

Audible.com (an Amazon.com-owned company) offers all of the Doctor Who audiobooks in downloadable MP3 format at discounted prices. Some titles are reduced nearly 50%, so the savings are significant! (For example, Doctor Who: Dead Air sells for $9.97 on Audible compared to $18.20 on Amazon.) And you don't have to be a member to get these prices.

Amazon has links and pricing for Audible versions on all their product listings.

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