Power of 3

BBC Audiobooks has released an incredible number of productions this year - with more several hundred hours of audio entertainment.

We're talking with Michael Stevens, who oversees the Doctor Who range.

He tells us about past and present releases, and gives us an exclusive on a release that's coming out next year featuring the Daleks!

This episode of the Power of 3 is released in honour of what would have been William Russell's 100th birthday.

Sadly, the actor passed away earlier this year.

However, courtesy of James Hadwen-Bennett, we're able to bring you a convention panel featuring the great man, from 2003.

Let's celebrate him and remember everything he brought us in his time in the show - including his brief return in 2022 in The Power of the Doctor. A real Doctor Who legend.

With a title like Superior Beings, you could be forgiven that this Fifth Doctor PDA features the Daleks.

But it doesn't! The Doctor and Peri instead encourter the fox-like Valethske!

Author Nick Walters joins us to discuss his novel - and also, its sequel, The Secret of Foxfell Forest. It's now available from www.candy-jar-books.co.uk in paperback and hardback formats.

The Wheel in Space is one of those Doctor Who stories that's sometimes overlook.

One third of it still exists in the BBC archives, with the other four episodes being covered by a telesnap reconstruction in iPlayer (and originally created for Britbox USA).

Kenny, Steevie and John discuss the story, and are joined by special guest John Kelly, who created the telesnap version.

The Power of 3 Book Club turns back the clock to 1996 and the days of the Missing Adventures.

Today, we take a look at The Man in the Velvet Mask, which was regarded as something of a controversial release at the time.

Author Daniel O'Mahony joins us for a talk, including addressing the controversy, some 28 years later!

We bring you our second episode looking at the new Fifteenth Doctor audiobooks.

Today, we're putting Doctor Who on Ghost Beach under the spotlight - and yes, that is the full and correct title!

Author Niel Bushnell drops by to discuss it, with the story having been released on Thursday, 7 November.

Did you know that there's a lost Ninth Doctor adventure from BBC Books?

Mike Tucker was originally scheduled to write it, but a clash with other work meant it was shelved.

However, it was resurrected for the 2-in-1 book range, with the Doctor, Amy and Rory, rather than Rose and Jack.

Mike tells us all about it!

Series 14/season one/the first one with the Fifteenth Doctor is being extended again! Woohoo!

We take a look at Sting of the Sasquatch, the new release from BBC Audiobooks, which is out today, Thursday 7 November.

We speak to commissioning editor Michael Stevens - who's back VERY soon with more - and author Darren Jones, plus we have an exclusive five minute extract.

It's Halloween! Are you ready to be scared?

Dave and Kenny today take a look at Forever Autumn, the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones novel set on 31st October.

The pair discuss the novel - one of them reckons it's the best new series novel and should have been a TV episode - and author Mark Morris drops in. He's an acclaimed horror novelist, so he knows how to scare!

(Today's guest theme - What if John Carpenter did a Doctor Who Theme? by George C Music)

Season 25 is finally out on blu-ray, and we're all enjoying the lovely new extra content and archival gems.

Today, we're delighted to bring you some anecdotes from the making of the original stories, from visual effects assistant (as he was then) Mike Tucker.

He shares his memories of working on The Happiness Patrol, Silver Nemesis and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.