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Joseph Lidster is an English television writer best known for his work on the Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Biography

His debut work was the audio play The Rapture for Big Finish Productions in 2002. Numerous further audio plays and prose short stories followed for Big Finish, for their Doctor Who line, spin-offs and other series (Sapphire & Steel and The Tomorrow People).

In 2005, he started working for the BBC, writing tie-in material for the new Doctor Who television series. He made his television writing debut in 2008 on the second series of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood and subsequently wrote three two-part stories for The Sarah Jane Adventures. He has written the two-part story "Rebel Magic" for the new CBBC series Wizards vs Aliens.[1]

Lidster wrote the content for the tie-in websites relating to the fictional world of the television series, Sherlock.[2] Alongside co-producer James Goss, he has produced Big Finish Productions' dramatic reading range of Dark Shadows audio dramas since 2011.

In 2012, he won the 'Audience Favourite Writer' award for his first play Nice Sally in the Off Cut Theatre Festival. [3]

Selected bibliography

Television
Radio
Audio dramas
Theatre
Short stories
Novellas
Audiobooks
Other
From 2005 onwards, he wrote the fictional content for the Doctor Who tie-in websites including the MySpace blog for Martha Jones. In 2007, he edited the Doctor Who short story collection Short Trips: Snapshots. The following year, he wrote "Mad Martha"[7] for the Doctor Who website. In 2007 and 2008 he abridged a number of Doctor Who and Torchwood novels for BBC Audiobooks, including Sting of the Zygons, Wooden Heart, Another Life, Border Princes and Slow Decay.

References

  1. ^ "Russell T Davies Creates Aliens Vs Wizards for CBBC". SFX. 2012-03-05. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ "Sherlock:Other Sherlock related websites". BBC Online. Retrieved 2010-07-25.
  3. ^ "Off Cut Festival". Off Cut Festival. 2012-10-13. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  4. ^ "the plays - Off Cut". Retrieved 2012-09-14.
  5. ^ "42: Prologue". BBC. 2007.
  6. ^ "Doctor Who Adventure Calendar". BBC. 2012.
  7. ^ "Mad Martha". Joseph Lidster. 2008.

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