Doctor Who: Rose Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Russell T Davies (Author), Camille Coduri (Narrator), BBC Digital Audio (Publisher)

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Camille Coduri reads this brand-new novelisation of the Ninth Doctor’s debut TV adventure.

"Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!"

In a lair somewhere beneath central London, a malevolent alien intelligence is plotting the end of humanity. Shop window dummies that can move - and kill - are taking up key positions, ready to strike.

Rose Tyler, an ordinary Londoner, is working her shift in a department store, unaware that this is the most important day of her life. She’s about to meet the only man who understands the true nature of the threat facing Earth, a stranger who will open her eyes to all the wonder and terror of the universe - a traveller in time and space known as the Doctor. This is the story that relaunched Doctor Who for the 21st century, novelised by showrunner Russell T Davies from his original script.

Novelisation copyright Russell T Davies 2018
Original script copyright Russell T Davies 2005

Cover illustration by Anthony Dry

BBC logo BBC 1996
Doctor Who logo BBC 2014

For BBC Worldwide:
Reading produced by Neil Gardner
Recorded at Ladbroke Audio Ltd
Sound design by David Darlington
Executive producer: Michael Stevens
TARDIS sound effect composed by Brian Hodgson

For BBC Books:
Editorial Director: Albert DePetrillo
Project Editor: Steve Cole
Cover design: Two Associates
Cover illustration: Anthony Dry

Doctor Who: Rose first published by BBC Books in 2018

Listening Length

4 hours and 14 minutes
Author

Russell T Davies
Narrator

Camille Coduri
Audible release date

3 May 2018
Language

English
Publisher

BBC Digital Audio
ASIN

B07C7JWCQR
Version

Unabridged
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Audiobook
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Listening Length	4 hours and 14 minutes
Author	Russell T Davies
Narrator	Camille Coduri
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	03 May 2018
Publisher	BBC Digital Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07C7JWCQR
Best Sellers Rank	58,082 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 66 in Science Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins 135 in Space Exploration Science Fiction 234 in Time Travel Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)

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The regeneration of Doctor Who.

Reviewed in Australia on 18 May 2019

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This is the story that introduced Doctor Who to a new generation, brilliantly written by Russell T Davis, this novel expands the original story and will not dissapoint.

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Eddie

Well read and well written

Reviewed in Australia on 23 April 2019

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Beautiful audio book read by Camill Courdi herself. Came to my Audible app easliy and smooth playback

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starmecrazy

A Rose by any other name is still a Rose

Reviewed in Australia on 15 November 2020

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Good! A lot more grand than the televised episode. And a lot more violent. Maybe not a children’s book, but definitely something for a fan.

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Alaran

Better than the onscreen version

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 April 2018

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Being the story that heralded the return of Doctor Who to our screens, it is only right and inevitable that ‘Rose’ should be included amongst the first wave of novelisations of ‘new’ episodes. Personally, though, I have never liked this story. So, unlike those novelisations published alongside it I haven’t been particularly enthused at the prospect of reading it. However, I’ve been pleasantly surprised and quite enjoyed it.

It is written by Russell T. Davies himself and he has incorporated into it a myriad of retrospective references and elements that give it multiple links across the whole spectrum of 2005 onwards Doctor Who. It gives the story another level of interaction with the reader. Thus, a couple of characters make brief appearances in this novelisation long before they were even conceived and there are references to all the Doctors, including the incoming Thirteenth.

Most of these are little tweaks and additions to entertain the fan but Rose’s fleeting encounter with the Tenth Doctor during the closing stages of ‘The End of Time’ is used to benefit the story. It means that it opens with a slightly altered perspective from Rose. Now when she is working at Henrik’s whilst wondering to herself whether there is more to life, she has a little glimmer of hope that something else might happen to change her life; a hope inspired by a few words from a man she didn’t know but somehow believed anyway. It makes her later decision to run off with a man she doesn’t know and leave her mother, boyfriend and life behind more understandable as she has almost been waiting for something like this to happen. It’s a good little tweak to the story.

Mickey receives a more substantial role. More about his background and his gran (that was later developed in ‘Rise of the Cybermen/the age of Steel’) is revealed and he has a group of friends who are featured throughout the story and the Auton attack on London. He is a much more developed character in this novelisation rather than just being present to be mocked by the Doctor.

Clive Finch also receives a somewhat larger role and gets better treatment from the story. He becomes more than just an obsessed geek and his demise is made much more sympathetic than it was onscreen.

Personally, I much preferred this novelisation over the original.

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MrHungry

An enjoyable read to introduce modern Doctor Who to the Target range.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 August 2020

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Russell T Davies’ novelisation of his own script is a worthy and for the most part faithful adaptation. Released some 13 years after the TV episode was broadcast, the author has taken the opportunity to insert into the book references to characters and events that had not been televised at the time and has expanded on some events. These for the most part work, such as the Auton attack that is presented on a much wider scale (and is surprisingly violent) and the casual description of Donna Noble sleeping off a night out, but the descriptions of Mickey’s friends feel like a gratuitous and cynical box ticking exercise to meet the BBC’s “diversity and inclusion” targets. On the plus side, Mickey, who I felt was woefully underutilised during the 9th Doctor’s run of stories, is at least given a reasonable backstory. All told an enjoyable read.

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T. A. Donnelly

Fantastic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 November 2020

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I picked this up for a little light reading and was blown away! Russell T. Davies looked back into his character notes (I suspect) and forward to the future history of Dr Who to deliver something much more compelling than the episode it is based on. There are brief but touching mentions of David Tennant’s Doctor (among others) and Catherine Tate’s Donna. The background he provides for Micky makes him more than the figure of fun he was (at least at this stage) on TV. This was far from Davies’ best episode, but he turned it into a ‘fantastic’ little book - let’s hope it’s a success and he writes up one of his classics like “The Parting of the Ways” or “Doomsday”...

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P.A.G

Good adaptation

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 December 2020

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I really enjoyed reading this novelization. Rose was the first doctor who story I watched when it came back in 2005. It brought it all back and had good funny lines featured in the episode "there's a strange man in my bedroom" that quote from Jackie Tyler made me laugh and I chuckled in 2020 when I read it. It was good too see Mickey get a lot of expansion and it all remains true for example his granny who we see in series 2 in a parallel earth because she survived and Clive is linked to Trotters Yard in Shoreditch linking him to Remembrance of the Daleks. Great too see so many who references too.

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John Hopper

great novelisation

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 September 2019

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This is a novelisation of the very first episode of the 21st century reboot of Doctor Who, broadcast in 2005 and which, like its predecessor Spearhead from Space, featured not only a new Doctor and companion, but also the plastic mannequin Autons and their controlling Nestene consciousness. The story's author was one of the key figures behind the programme's return and here expands very successfully on the script for a 45 minute TV episode, adding great depth to the characters, even relatively minor ones like the luckless Clive. All the same events happen in the same order, with some additional scenes, but the greater depth gives it much more impact. A great read, deliberately designed to echo the original Target novelisations of the 1970s.

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