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27 March 2025
This review contains spoilers!
Before Tom Baker was enticed into working for Big Finish, he starred as the Fourth Doctor in a series of BBC audio dramas centered Nest Cottage and written by Paul Magrs. For companions, he was set up with an interesting pair: former UNIT Captain Mike Yates, and his Nest Cottage housekeeper Mrs. Wibbsey. I'll never understand why they chose Mike Yates for these stories, but anyway. The Nest Cottage series is made up of three five-part arcs: Hornets' Nest, Demon Quest, and Serpent Crest. Stuff of Nightmares is the first part of Hornets' Nest and is primarily the Fourth Doctor telling Mike Yates the story thus far about alien hornets who desire to take over the Earth, in this story using taxidermied animals. It's fine. At this point, Tom still sounds like the Doctor from TV (compared to his most recent Big Finish releases) and is a decent narrator. The story is somewhat enjoyable, but it's nothing outstanding or spectacular. I'll keep going on the Nest Cottage series but I'm sure there will be plenty of other stuff that I listen to in between.
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