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Doctor Who

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Specially recorded audio dramas and readings from the time-travelling adventure series

Specially recorded audio dramas and readings from the time-travelling adventure series, featuring the First, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth and Tenth Doctors.

Doctor Who: Farewell Great Macedon

Doctor Who: Farewell Great Macedon: Episode 2

Farewell Great Macedon

Episode 2

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Doctor Who, Farewell Great Macedon, Episode 2

A lost 1960s gem brought to life. Alexander the Great welcomes his guests to Babylon.

A lost 1960s gem brought to life. Alexander the Great welcomes his guests to Babylon. Stars William Russell and Carole Ann Ford.

Time travel is an odd business - it's not just about the history you know, it's the history you don't. 

Hardcore Doctor Who fans can tell you when and where the Time Lord has been to on television. What about the adventures we DIDN'T see? What about the time the TARDIS landed in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the crew met Alexander the Great?

Find out as the original team - Ian, Barbara, Susan and the first ever Doctor - step out from the time machine into one of the Ancient Wonders of the World, in the year 323 BC. Hear the wit and guile of the very first Doctor in action as he thinks his way out of a walk on hot coals - and offers Alexander the Great a way to cheat death through 20th Century means... an iron lung!

This unproduced television script is brought to mesmeric life on audio in semi-dramatised form, featuring stars of the original series Carol Ann Ford and William Russell.

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama. With recent favourites from BBC Radio 4.

The TARDIS materialises in the year 323 BC, for the final days of Alexander the Great

The TARDIS materialises in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in the year 323 BC. These are the final days of Alexander the Great's life. First Doctor adventure stars William Russell and Carole Ann Ford.

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