Doctor Who Hornets Nest 4 A Sting I..., Paul Magrs
Doctor Who Hornets Nest 4 A Sting I..., Paul Magrs
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Doctor Who Hornets' Nest 4: A Sting In The Tale

Author: Paul Magrs

Narrator: Full Cast, Richard Franklin, Tom Baker

Unabridged: 1 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2009

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

The Doctor arrives in a bleak English midwinter of long ago. Plunging into the snowy landscape of the Dark Ages, he learns that wild dogs besiege the local Tilling Abbey every night. When he is given shelter by the sisters of the abbey, the Doctor begs an audience with the Mother Superior they fiercely protect. Something unearthly has already happened here - and if the Doctor is right, it’s connected to his recent encounters with an ancient enemy. As night falls again, the dogs can be held off no longer - and the sisters’ secret is about to be revealed. Forced to draw his enemy off into the depths of the TARDIS, the Doctor finds himself in a nightmarish chase through his own ship - but is he the pursuer, or the pursued? As they fight him on his own ground, the hornets are determined to possess his mind... With Tom Baker as the Doctor, Richard Franklin as Mike Yates, Clare Corbett as the Nun, Susie Riddell as the Sister, Rula Lenska as the Swarm and Susan Jameson as Mrs Wibbsey, A Sting in the Tale is the fourth of five linked stories written by the acclaimed Paul Magrs. '... Baker delivers the drama and intensity that you recognise from the Fourth Doctor of old' - Doctor Who Magazine

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bobby on October 28, 2021

Great series of a classic character.......more

Goodreads review by Leila on May 05, 2020

We're back on track with this story after the disappointing Circus of Doom. The Doctor (Tom Baker) time travels back to an 11th century nunnery where the sisters worship a pig infested with alien hornets, thinking it is divine! The story is deeply creepy and Tom Baker is just perfect to narrate it.......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on November 02, 2010

My major complaint about the previous installment applies equally well to this one: because we are merely seeing the fulfillment of events that from our point of view have already happened, there's not a whole lot of tension. Despite that, I enjoyed this installment more than the previous one, proba......more

Goodreads review by Terri on September 30, 2013

The Doctor continues telling his story to Mike Yates. As he goes further back in time to the Middle Ages and a nunnery and finds the hornets tormenting the nuns there. Then it gets more personal and he brings us back to the present in Nest Cottage. This explained a lot of things and pulled things to......more

Goodreads review by Gabriel on February 01, 2017

Doctor Who: Hornets' Nest, Part 4 -A Sting in the Tale was entertaining and enjoyable to listen to. In this fourth volume of the series, the alien hornets do their best to take over the Doctor's mind. Doctor Who finds himself in the Dark Ages and does his best to fight against the hornets, whether t......more


Quotes

... great fun to listen to Bognor Regis Observer

A Sting in the Tale is probably the most alluring (not to mention probably the most rewarding) instalment of the Hornets’ Nest saga to date. http://www.doctorwhoreviews.co.uk