Myth Sandwich: James Goss and the Acton Hauntings

We Can Be Weirdos

Global

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

James Goss (born 1974) is an English writer and producer renowned for his extensive work in the Doctor Who and Torchwood universes. Initially part of the BBC, he managed the official Doctor Who website from 2000, expanding its scope before transitioning to TV tie‑in media .

He wrote multiple Torchwood novels—Almost Perfect, Risk Assessment, First Born—and crafted acclaimed Doctor Who audiobooks and novels, including Dead Air (Best Audiobook 2010), Dead of Winter, and novelisations of Douglas Adams’ scripts like City of Death and The Pirate Planet .

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1:37.4	My name is Dan Schreiber.
1:38.7	I am coming to you today from my home at Roughway by C, where I am currently sitting at my desk, surrounded by tons of books
1:46.3	by an author who goes by the name, because it is his name, James Goss. James Goss is an audio
1:52.4	producer. He is an author. He's largely associated with the world of Doctor Who, and while he does a
1:58.5	bunch of different things for him, one of the main things he does
2:01.3	is the novelizations of existing episodes. And that's what's sitting in front of me right now.
2:06.4	I have Doctor Who classics that he's adapted from three different Douglas Adamscripts. So there
2:12.3	is the City of Death, Doctor Who and the Cricket Men, the Pirate planet. They're all brilliant books. I have a
2:19.3	novel that he wrote separate to any franchise, which is called haters. You can get that in bookshops.
2:24.2	And then I have the most recent episodes that he's novelized from the latest run of Doctor Who.
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