Joseph Lidster

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 is currently writing for the new children's series Aliens vs Wizards.

From 2010, Lidster wrote the content for several tie-in websites relating to the fictional world of the new television series, Sherlock.

Selected bibliography

Television

• Torchwood
  • "A Day in the Death" (2008)
• The Sarah Jane Adventures
  • "The Mark of the Berserker" (2 parts, 2008)
  • "The Mad Woman in the Attic" (2 parts, 2009)
  • "The Nightmare Man" (2 parts, 2010)
• Aliens vs Wizards (2 parts, 2012)

Radio

• The Afternoon Play
  • "Torchwood: Lost Souls" (2008)

Audio dramas

• Doctor Who
  • The Rapture (2002)
  • Master (2003)
  • Terror Firma (2005)
  • The Reaping (2006)
  • The Gathering (2006)
  • 100 (2007)
• Sapphire & Steel
  • Daisy Chain (2005)
  • The Mystery of the Missing Hour (2007)
• UNIT
  • The Longest Night (2005)
• Bernice Summerfield
  • The Crystal of Cantus (2006)
  • The Final Amendment (2007)
• The Tomorrow People
  • Aftermath (2006)
• Dark Shadows
  • London's Burning (2010)

Short stories

• Doctor Who
  • "I Was A Monster!!!" in Short Trips: Zodiac (2002)
  • "That Time I Nearly Destroyed The World Whilst Looking For a Dress" in Short Trips: Past Tense (2004)
  • "The Tramp's Story" in Short Trips: Repercussions (2004)
  • "Trapped!" in Short Trips: Monsters (2004)
  • "The Terror of the Darkness" in Short Trips: A Day in the Life (2005)
  • "She Won't Be Home" in Short Trips: The History of Christmas (2005)
  • "Curtain Call" in Short Trips: Farewells (2006)
  • "Prologue" and "Forgotten" in Short Trips: The Centenarian (2006)
  • "Natalie's Diary" in Short Trips: Dalek Empire (2006)
  • "Salva Mea" in Short Trips: Snapshots (2007)
  • "Keeping It Real" in Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas (2007)
  • "42: Prologue" for the BBC's Doctor Who website (2007)
• Bernice Summerfield
  • "A Summer Affair" in A Life Worth Living (2005)
  • "Dead Mice" in Something Changed (2006)
• Torchwood
  • "Monster" in the Torchwood Yearbook (2008)
  • "Consequences" (2009)

Novellas

• Bernice Summerfield
  • "On Trial" in A Life In Pieces (2004)

Audiobooks

• Torchwood
  • In the Shadows (2009)
  • Red Skies

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" 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.

External links

• Joseph Lidster at IMDb
• Joseph Lidster at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Interview with Lidster