An Unearthly Child (audio story)

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 was a direct-to-audio novelisation based on the 1963 television serial An Unearthly Child. It was distinct from both the TV story and the Target print novelisation.

The audiobook was intended to be released in November 2013 but was delayed to February 2015 after AudioGO entered administration and subsequently closed. With the rights reverting back to BBC Worldwide, Random House became the new distributor of Doctor Who audiobooks. However, according to Michael Stevens, a "rights situation" was preventing the release of An Unearthly Child.

, the audiobook has not been released.

Publisher's summary
When schoolteachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright decide to investigate the home life of their unusual pupil Susan Foreman, they plunge into a nightmarish realm of eerie junkyards, impossible police boxes, and a crotchety old man who claims to be from another place and time. Read by William Russell, who played Ian in the original serial on which this book is based, this is a brand new audio novelisation of the first ever Doctor Who adventure, first broadcast in November 1963.