Welcome back to the show Dylan Rees, host of the brilliant Doctor Who: Too Hot For TV podcast, for this careful, scholarly and entirely serious review of the debut novel from little-known Welsh writer Russell T. Davies who would one day bring Doctor Who back to the screen and make it the most wonderful and popular thing ever. But not today. Today it's 1996 and we're talking about a very different kettle of fish. Doctor Who might never be this bleak, this street, this gritty or depressing ever again. And yet, this is probably the most important of the Virgin New Adventures. So: allons-y! Follow @seaoftranquilitylane on Threads.

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Join Iain (@seaoftranquilitylane on Threads) and returning honeybun Jon Arnold to discuss that most meta, post-modern and high-concept Virgin New Adventure novel, 1994's Conundrum by Steve Lyons, a book with heavy links to a Troughton-era Doctor Who classic, a book with superheroes, adventuring children, a serial killer, a private dick, a quiet village, and a deadly trap for the Time Lord. Also, for once, a stunning cover painting! What's not to love?

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Join Iain and young Harry from the Who Can Convince You? podcast to discuss Trevor Baxendale's slimy thriller Coldheart from the EDA range. I'll be honest: we don't go into too much depth, due to tangents, diversions, nonsense and bumfoolery. But this episode is a good example of how to disagree agreeably... Follow @seaoftranquilitylane on Threads

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Hellfire and Sodomy! Jon Arnold joins me to talk about our memories of reading Lawrence Miles' debut novel, originally published in the summer of 1996. Meet Matheson Catcher, the Watchmakers, the Chirurgeons, the foul-mouthed Erskine Morris, and not forgetting the villainous Carnival Queen. And a fair number of tangents and diversions. All this and Kevin too, by Satan's Cock! Follow @seaoftranquilitylane on Threads.

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Join guest James and host Iain (@seaoftranquilitylane on threads) for episode two of our "sophomore" season. God, I used to hate reading that expression. But I digress. We're here to talk about the gripping climax of the Cat's Cradle trilogy and James has amassed DATA and EVIDENCE to support his diverse hypotheses. You're in for an hour of two men with a lot in common wittering away about a Doctor Who New Adventure originally published before Eldorado was even a thing...

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Welcome back to our podcast about both the Virgin New Adventures and the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures. To launch the second series with suitable gravitas and excitement, join me as I sit down with the man behind the second book in the Cat's Cradle trilogy - Andrew Cartmel. Cartmel was the script editor of Doctor Who during the Seventh Doctor era, wrote three of my favourite New Adventures, and in 2016 launched the Vinyl Detective series of cosy-crime novels. We discuss his writing career in depth, beginning -of course- with his very first book, 1992's Cat's Cradle: Warhead, which for my money is a breathtaking, visionary debut...Follow us @seaoftranquilitylane on Threads.

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Writer/editor James Hornby joins me to discuss the book Cwej: Down the Middle, published by Arcbeatle Press.

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Join Iain, Tim Reid from the Randomiser podcast, and the read-through crew for one last time in this series as we travel back to the dawn of the Time Lords in Marc Platt's Time's Crucible. Is it a classic, or is it a bit over-rated? Find out...

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