Eddie Robson Audiobooks

Science fiction played for laughs in Welcome to Our Village Please Invade Carefully

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Who is Eddie Robson?

Eddie Robson, born in 1978, is a British writer with one of those enviably varied CVs: books, comics, short stories, television, theatre, and a stint as a freelance journalist for science fiction magazines. Based in Lancaster, he is best known for two things – the sitcom Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully, and his extensive work on spin-offs from the BBC’s Doctor Who.

That pairing tells you plenty. Robson is a genre writer with a comedian’s instincts, or possibly a comedy writer with a genre obsessive’s knowledge; either way, the two halves feed each other constantly, and the result is a very British sort of career.

Eddie Robson in audiobooks

Fittingly, the Robson title in our catalogue is Welcome to Our Village Please Invade Carefully – the invasion comedy that made his name, where the science fiction premise sits right there in the title and the joke lies in how politely, carefully and very Britishly village life absorbs it.

Comedy written for broadcast is comedy written for the ear, which makes Robson a natural audiobook proposition. UK listeners raised on gentle-but-sharp British sitcom will recognise the rhythms at once: understatement, escalation, and a deep affection for the ridiculous. It is a lovely, low-stakes way into the work of a writer who deserves to be better known.