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Terry Nation: The Man Who Invented the Daleks

Terry Nation: The Man Who Invented the Daleks

The Biography

Written by Alwyn W. Turner

Read by David Troughton

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SKU: 978-1-78196-109-4 Categories: Audio, Biography & Non-Fiction (Audios) Tags: Doctor Who, Easter
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The Daleks are one of the most iconic and fearsome creations in television history. Since their first appearance in 1963, they have simultaneously fascinated and terrified generations of children, their instant success ensuring, and sometimes eclipsing, that of Doctor Who.

They sprang from the imagination of Terry Nation, a failed stand-up comic who became one of the most prolific writers for television that Britain has ever produced. Survivors, his vision of a post-apocalyptic England, so haunted audiences in the Seventies that the BBC revived it over thirty years on, and Blake’s 7, constantly rumoured for return, endures as a cult sci-fi classic. But it is for his genocidal pepperpots that Nation is most often remembered, and on the 50th anniversary of their creation they continue to top the Saturday-night ratings.

Yet while the Daleks brought him notoriety and riches, Nation played a much wider role in British broadcasting’s golden age. He wrote for Spike Milligan, Frankie Howerd and an increasingly troubled Tony Hancock, and as one of the key figures behind the adventure series of the Sixties – including The Avengers, The Saint and The Persuaders! – he turned the pulp classics of his boyhood into a major British export.

In The Man Who Invented the Daleks, acclaimed cultural historian Alwyn W. Turner, explores the curious and contested origins of Doctor Who‘s greatest villains, and sheds light on a strange world of ambitious young writers, producers and performers without whom British culture today would look very different.

Reviews

‘Highly enjoyable’ – Financial Times
‘An utter delight’ – Doctor Who Magazine
‘As an account of a career, the book can’t be faulted’ – Daily Mail
‘It’s a book SFX readers should love … compelling’ – SFXmagazine
‘Well-researched and down to earth’ – Times Literary Supplement
‘Spectacular’ – Dominic Sandbrook
‘His life as a storyteller and his legacy as a mythmaker animates this history of pulp screen classics’ – The Times
‘Absorbing, detailed and intricately researched’ – Starburst
‘Incisive social history of British TV’s golden age’ – The Word
‘From classic ’60s spy capers to Hancock, it’s a window into a world long gone’ – Time Out

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Weight 0.25 kg
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About the author

ALWYN W. TURNER is the author of a number of acclaimed books on modern British culture, including Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s, Rejoice! Rejoice!: Britain in the 1980s and The Biba Experience

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