This Christmas, BBC Radio 4 extra is transmitting the full series of the BBC Doctor Who Hornets Nest audio series, previously available on CD only.

Written by Paul Magrs, and stars Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Richard Franklin as Captain Mike Yates. It was released on five CDs by BBC Audiobooks between September and December 2009 and feature multiple actors, but all episodes contain some degree of narration by different characters. This is the first time Tom Baker has reprised the role of the Doctor in an original full length story since the original BBC TV series.

On Monday and Tuesday, in The Stuff of Nightmares, Mike Yates is reunited with the Time Lord. Barricaded in the Time Lord's cottage, he hears about re-animating bugs.

On Wednesday and Thursday, in The Dead Shoes, it's back in time to 1930s Cromer for Mike's next lesson about the alien swarm.

On Friday and Monday, in The Circus of Doom, the Time Lord encounters the invading swarm in early 19th-century rural England.

Next Tuesday and Wednesday, in A Sting in the Tale, his next alien insect encounter, the Doctor travels back to medieval England.

In the final story on Thursday and Friday, Hive of Horror, Mike Yates joins forces with the Time Lord to tackle the alien swarm.

It will air on weekdays from 12th-16th then 19th-23rd of December at 6pm, each episode is split into 25 minute sections, so the 5 CD set is in 10 parts!

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I've already set the TiVo box to record them :) This is also be available on iPlayer after transmission, I believe iPlayer radio works for international listeners :)

The Fourth Doctor, Yates and Mrs Wibbsey are reunited one year later in Paul Magrs sequel, Demon Quest and again in Serpent Crest, will the BBC play these at future Christmases I wonder?