Doctor Who: The Paradise of Death
by Barry Letts (BBC Radio 5, 1993)
This five-part radio serial carries an aura of Pertwee-era authenticity, though broadcast two decades later. It’s also unambitious, concerned more with finding its audio feet, reuniting old favourites and riffing on familiar plot elements than with pushing any sort of creative envelope.
Who and Me
by Barry Letts [New, Expanded Edition] (Fantom, 2021)
The first half of Barry Letts’s unfinished Doctor Who memoir. There’s not much here that Letts didn’t offer up during assorted DVD commentaries, but his conversational style nonetheless makes this slim volume a pleasant read. The ‘new’ material is largely just repetition.
Doctor Who: The Ghosts of N-Space
by Barry Letts (BBC Radio, 1996)
Unfortunately the gratified nostalgia of having a new Third Doctor adventure after twenty-one years, even with strong performances by Jon Pertwee and Elisabeth Sladen, could not make up for the manifest shortcomings (namely, dire minor characters and plot) of this audio adventure.