Lauren Mooney

'Switchblade sharp fiction for the work-life unbalanced' GLEN JAMES BROWN Danielle MacKinnon's nearly thirty and still hasn't got her life sorted. Her job as a PA to the blithely privileged Jeannie is boring, and existentially depressing, and now, after a break-up, she needs to find somewhere to live for the next two months. Her best friends Ben and Anita are keen to help, but Danielle's broke, burning through couches and good-will, until she gets an unexpected proposal from Jeannie. Danielle can stay at Westerley, the sprawling Yorkshire estate where Jeannie grew up. They need someone to look after the old place anyway. She'd be doing them a favour. At Westerley, Danielle luxuriates in her idyllic, borrowed life as lady of the manor - but the house is big, old and uneasy. It's a strange place to live alone. The sleep paralysis that began in London is beginning to worsen. And then Jeannie arrives unannounced. Working for her, serving her, living in her house, the razor-thin boundaries begin Danielle and her boss begin to dissolve. Soon their relationship slides into something older, stranger and harder to name. Something is happening at Westerley. Things where they shouldn't be. The shadow of a maid sweeping in the dawn light. But is the house really haunted? Or is Danielle?

'Switchblade sharp fiction for the work-life unbalanced' GLEN JAMES BROWN Danielle MacKinnon's nearly thirty and still hasn't got her life sorted. Her job as a PA to the blithely privileged Jeannie is boring, and existentially depressing, and now, after a break-up, she needs to find somewhere to live for the next two months. Her best friends Ben and Anita are keen to help, but Danielle's broke, burning through couches and good-will, until she gets an unexpected proposal from Jeannie. Danielle can stay at Westerley, the sprawling Yorkshire estate where Jeannie grew up. They need someone to look after the old place anyway. She'd be doing them a favour. At Westerley, Danielle luxuriates in her idyllic, borrowed life as lady of the manor - but the house is big, old and uneasy. It's a strange place to live alone. The sleep paralysis that began in London is beginning to worsen. And then Jeannie arrives unannounced. Working for her, serving her, living in her house, the razor-thin boundaries begin Danielle and her boss begin to dissolve. Soon their relationship slides into something older, stranger and harder to name. Something is happening at Westerley. Things where they shouldn't be. The shadow of a maid sweeping in the dawn light. But is the house really haunted? Or is Danielle?

The Zygons have come to claim the Earth, and this time they're playing the long game. For the Black Cadre have a plan, a plan that will take exactly one hundred years to come to fruition. From the streets of St Petersburg to the plains of Death Valley, the Zygon Century continues... 1922: The Black Cadre by Jonathan Barnes. 1968: An Incident in Death Valley by Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle. 1974: The Caldwell Restitution by Ken Bentley. CAST: Jonathan Rigby (Herbert Scott), Charlie Russell (Vorvoren), Joshua Manning (Caldwell / Board Member 1).

Martin Binns is dead. He leaves behind a pile of video tapes and a warning on the walls of his flat: "He Is Coming". Andy's boss is keen to write the death off, but Andy's been around Torchwood too long to let it go. The tapes contain the rushes of an unfinished horror film. Hidden in it is a forgotten crime and a terrible warning. He. Is. Coming. NOTE: Torchwood contains adult material and may not be suitable for younger listeners. Cast: Tom Price (Andy Davidson).

In Victorian England, the Great Detective, Madame Vastra, her resourceful spouse, Jenny Flint, and their loyal valet, Strax, solve conundrums, fight injustice and capture criminals – but a shapeshifting enemy is moving against them... Hunting down their foe amid London society, Vastra is driven to distraction, and the Gang ousted from their home – before a final confrontation! 2.10 I Married a Zygon by Alan Ronald. The Gang visit an old friend in a haunted mansion. Miss Faversham is suffering a mysterious malady, and her engagement to the curious Lord Briar convinces Vastra she can scent the enemy... As Jenny helps supernatural investigator Harriet Cross catch a ghost, they discover something far more dangerous loose inside the walls of Briar Hall. 2.11 A Passion for Fashion by Helen Goldwyn. Society ladies are losing their fortunes and growing mortally sick – apparently infected by insatiable desire for the designs of enigmatic hat-maker, Monsieur Declerq. With the help of a shop-girl, the Gang uncover rivalry in the fashion world and a dark trade in cruel importation. They also find that Monsieur Declerq is much more than a flamboyant fashionista. 2.122.12 The Final Poblom by Lauren Mooney & Stewart Pringle. The villainous trespasser has finally succeeded in banishing the Paternosters from their home, using the most powerful weapon in his arsenal: the bailiffs. Stuck in a seedy boarding house, the Gang soon realise something else is afoot. Things are going missing. Something is munching its way through London, and it may be the answer to all their problems... CAST: Neve McIntosh (Madame Vastra), Dan Starkey (Strax), Catrin Stewart (Jenny Flint), Paul McGann (The Doctor), Nicholas Briggs (Lord Briar / Brottac), Beth Chalmers (Miss Faversham), Kammy Darweish (Monsieur Declerq), Susan Harrison (Ethel Kipling / Miss Trelawney / Lady Livingston) Lara Lemon (Harriet Cross), Shogo Miyakita (Mr Randolph), Kate O’Sullivan (Mrs McCreedy / Fence / Peggy / Old Woman), John Ramm (Fotheringay), Andrew James Spooner (Bailiff / Delivery Man / Eustace the Celebrant / Norris). Other parts played by members of the cast.

The Zygons have come to claim the Earth, and this time they're playing the long game. For the Black Cadre have a plan, a plan that will take exactly one hundred years to come to fruition. Prepare yourselves... the Zygon Century has begun 1901: The Unknowing Mirror by Jonathan Barnes. In Edwardian London, that scandalous investigator of occult phenomena, Mr Herbert Scott, and his associate, Father Felix Cromwell, are confronted by a case of possession. A young woman, suffering from unusually vivid dreams, seems also to exhibit signs of a completely separate personality. Another being is speaking through her, a being which claims not to be from Earth at all, a being which calls itself... Zygon. 1935: The Miracle of Pendour Cove by Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle. Freddie Trewella has found a mermaid, beautiful and strange, washed ashore in a Cornish bay. He names her Vorvoren, and she comforts him in his harsh life of servitude to a zealot father. As they grow together, Vorvoren shows Freddie her secret power, to change her appearance into anything she desires. But Freddie has secrets of his own, terrible secrets, and soon Vorvoren’s great adventure among the humans becomes a nightmarish fight for survival... 1957: Double Agent by Trevor Baxendale. In an England gripped by Cold War paranoia, wounded MI5 operative Caldwell is itching to rejoin the fray abroad. So why are the service sending him to a remote Cornish island? Can the future of the world really be at stake? Will he be able to complete his mission without falling foul of the hideous monsters stalking the caves? And who exactly is the island’s other new arrival: an operative of quite a different kind, known only as the Doctor? CAST: Patricia Allison (Edith Walker), Charlie Russell (Vorvoren), Michael Troughton (The Doctor), Kymberley Cochrane (Elowen Trewella / Zytar), Jonathan Forbes (Father Felix Cromwell), Jonathan Keeble (Vernon), Tom Kiteley (Archie), Beth Lilly (Harriet / Jorost), Joshua Manning (Caldwell), Joanna Monro (Krozon), James Northcote (Freddie Trewella), Lisa Palfrey (Mrs Maloney), Nicholas Pegg (Professor Vennix), Jonathan Rigby (Herbert Scott), Roger Ringrose (Dawson), Pip Torrens (Thomas Browne). Other parts played by members of the cast.

'Imagine yourself as a file on a computer: that's you. That's what you are now.' A woman wakes up in 2075, in a body that is not her own. Fifty years ago, Bridget died in a car accident. Now, thanks to a technological breakthrough, she is back: her mind, her consciousness, in a synthetic body. Metal. Wires. But she's still Bridget, isn't she? She must be. More Life is a sci-fi gothic horror, set in a future where pain and death are going rapidly out of date. It premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2025, in a production made in association with Kandinsky Theatre Company.

The Doctor, Audacity and Charley visit many times and places, always with the best of intentions. But others have a different agenda... Puccini and the Doctor by Matthew Jacobs. Inspired by his friends, the Doctor takes Charley and Audacity to Milan to meet Puccini and hear the music of love. But the Doctor is not the only alien entranced by humanity. The mysterious Tura is setting riddles, and for those who answer, the experience is transformative... Women's Day Off by Lisa McMullin. Iceland, 1975. Charley and Audacity are thrilled to discover that the women have gone on strike. All of them. With potentially disastrous consequences for a girl called Kyla - and everyone she comes into contact with. The Gloaming by Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle. The Doctor, Charley and Audacity arrive on Gloaming, a luxury sleep clinic in orbit around a dead world. Gloaming is filled with wealthy Sleepers, dreaming through the dark ages of their world in suspended animation. But something is growing here, creeping into minds and poisoning dreams. Something the Doctor fought long ago... CAT: Paul McGann (The Doctor), India Fisher (Charlotte Pollard), Jaye Griffiths (Lady Audacity Montague), Tim McInnerny (Giacomo Puccini), Molly Harris (Kyla), Will Huggins (Butcher / Father / Uncle / Caretaker), Sarah Lawrie (Elvira Bonturi), Abigail McKern (Meryl Zink), Richard Reed (Massimo / Karl), Tania Rodrigues (Princess Tura), Graham Seed (Franz), Kate Terence (Ms Gunnar / Caroline), Homer Todiwala (Dekkar), George Watkins (Jefred). Other parts played by members of the cast.

As the Doctor, Liv and Helen explore the universe, they come across lost souls, troubled minds and long-kept secrets. From a lonely world with birdsong but no birds, to an English university whose undergraduates tell ghostly tales, and a distant galaxy where a utopian society lives in the shadow of enormous creatures, the TARDIS crew are haunted by echoes of past, present and future… Birdsong by Tim Foley. The TARDIS arrives on an empty world where two scouts await the rest of their colony. Except this world may not be as empty as everybody thinks. There’s a figure in the woods – and a strangely familiar sound… As the Doctor and his friends learn more about the planet’s inhabitants, the birdsong they hear becomes a deadly chorus. Lost Hearts by Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle. Michaelmas term, 1903. In one of England’s ancient universities, strange apparitions float between quads and cloisters. While Liv and Helen protect a naïve undergraduate from a sinister society, the Doctor finds a ghost-hunting ally. One who happens to be the era’s foremost chronicler of things that go bump in the night… Slow Beasts by Dan Rebellato. The Doctor takes Liv and Helen to see one of the Wonders of the Outer Galaxy – to Ran-Zoan, where immense alien figures loom over the plains and settlements of the Renn. But the Slow Beasts hide a secret – a secret that, once unleashed, spells doom for this entire world. CAST: Paul McGann (The Doctor), Nicola Walker (Liv), Hattie Morahan (Helen), Jane Asher (Myra), Derek Griffiths (Mathryn), Fiona Button (Bex), Steve Brody (Monty James), Joe Pitts (Robert Sinclair), Timothy Bentinck (Professor Alistair Gray), Maya Saroya (Iri / Bartha), Dan Starkey (Calthrys / Valryth / Cha-Harr), Holly Jackson Walters (Zythrev). Other parts played by members of the cast.

A child goes missing in a small Welsh town. As Rhys grows closer to the traumatised Catherine and her husband, he discovers that something is badly wrong in their remote cottage. There are scratches in the plaster, little wooden figures hidden in the walls, and next-door neighbour Mr Collins isn’t what he seems. Will you join them at the festival of darkness? CAST: Kai Owen (Rhys Williams), Scott Arthur (Alex), Emily Burnett (Catherine), Arbel Jones (Maia), Sion Tudor Owen (Mr Collins). Other parts played by members of the cast. NOTE: Torchwood contains adult material and may not be suitable for younger listeners.

Andy Davidson has stumbled across the last proper pub on Cardiff Bay. Sticky carpets, cut-glass mirrors, eccentric regulars and absolutely no food. He gets chatting to the bar manager Nia, who has a strange tale to tell. A tale about bizarre experiments on the local dog population, about booze-hounds transplanted into real hounds. And the weirdest thing is, Andy might be starting to believe her. Torchwood contains adult material and may not be suitable for younger listeners. CAST: Tom Price (Andy Davidson), Zadeiah Campbell-Davies (Nia), Gareth Armstrong (Kenn), Howard Ward (Dick), Lissa Berry (Mary), Leah Marks (Sandra) and introducing Phoebe as Dog.

The Doctor crosses paths with many travellers – some at the start of their journey, some well on their way. From the remote nodes of a transmat network, to solving crimes at a spaceship service station, or helping a friend climb the political ladder - sometimes the journey is more interesting, and more dangerous, than the destination. Contains three new adventures: Below There by Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle. Vyx works on a teleport relay station in the darkest depths of space – and she’s afraid. Strange voices crackle through comms channels, shapes gather outside the starless viewing ports, and visions of death and destruction plague her dreams. Then she gets a call from the Doctor, who warns Vyx that her worst nightmares are about to become a reality. The Butler Did It by James Moran. The Doctor lands at a spaceship repair port on a dusty planet to tune up the TARDIS engines. But someone has poisoned an old friend of his, and now everyone at the station is a suspect. It's time to round up the clues, get out the magnifying glass – or sonic screwdriver – and check the butler's alibi... Run by Robert Valentine. When heinous demagogue Bellatrix Vega threatens the stability of the Galactic Federation, the Doctor convinces newly elected representative Alpha Centauri to run against her for president. As Vega’s team mount a campaign of dirty tricks, the Doctor and Alpha must thwart a murderous conspiracy or see the galaxy’s greatest democracy become a brutal dictatorship. CAST: Christopher Eccleston (The Doctor), Kelly Adams (Vyx Leeson), Jane Asher (Bellatrix Vega), Nicholas Briggs (Zzargol), Jane Goddard (Alpha Centauri), Daniel Cerqueira (Tom Francis), Homer Todiwala (Computer / Jacob Ojo), Emma Swan (Myra), Paul Thornley (Relb / Sita), Louise Faulkner (Larch / Kiri), Andrew French (Tiller/Hargenoy), David Langham (Kramp / Tau Ceti), Philip Pope (Speaker of the House / Cartel Boss). Other parts played by members of the cast.

Mysterious signals lead Torchwood to the Moil. 4-1-8-4. Greg likes countryside walks and recording the songs of birds. 3-6-2-7. No one knows the secret of the numbers stations. 1-2-0-5. How long has Ianto Jones been trapped in the boiler room? 9-7-2-3. Reality is collapsing. 3-5-8-1. The Lincolnshire Poacher is waiting. CAST: Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto Jones), Hywel Morgan (Doctor), Tania Rodrigues (The Numbers Station), David Shaw-Parker (Greg). Other parts played by members of the cast. NOTE: Torchwood contains adult material and may not be suitable for younger listeners.

The Doctor, Liv and Helen are travelling once again in the universe of space and time... Contains two stories - Paradox of the Daleks by John Dorney (2 parts) and The Dalby Spook by Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle (1 part).

The Mari Lwyd is a fine Welsh Christmas Tradition - the skeleton of a horse roams the streets, begging to be let in for food and warmth. Once she knocks, only the most cunning can send her away. Ianto Jones has come to a remote village for a quiet Christmas. But the Mari Lwyd has come knocking. And she's real. CAST: Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto Jones), Rhian Morgan (Mrs Watkins), Duncan Wisbey (Jim), Sion Daniel Young (Daniel). Other parts played by members of the cast. NOTE: Torchwood contains adult material and may not be suitable for younger listeners