Doctor Who – Scream of the Shalka Audio Drama – BBC webcast – Paul Cornell Free Audiobook

Written by Paul Cornell
Read by Richard F. Grant; Sophie Okonedo
Format: MP3
Dramatization

Here is a rarity for Doctor Who fans like myself who simply want everything that has ever existed in audio in their collection: the audio track from the webcast of The Scream of the Shalka.

I created this by stripping the audio from the motion comic. It works out fine as an audio drama and you don’t need the visuals. This is probably because it was first released as an audio drama and then turned into the Flash animated comic.

This is unique in Doctor Who as the only audio release that features the “Shalka” Doctor,. The “Shalka” Doctor was going to be the Ninth Doctor until the BBC series was released in 2005. It is interesting to speculate where the series would have gone with Richard L. Grant as the Ninth Doctor.

As such, this audio drama is not considered canonical by many sources, although others simply place it in the Ninth Doctor’s timeline before meeting Rose. It is the only instance of the “Shalka” Doctor that exists. Oddly, this also has been released as an audio book, which makes matters even more confusing.

Frankly, this is a pretty average Doctor Who release and not anything special, but I’ve seen people looking for it in various chat boards. So, download this and put it with your other audio webcasts!

Enjoy!