The eponymous villain in The Word Lord is called Nobody No-one, voiced by Paul Reynolds (reminiscent of Mr. Nobody from Raw Shark I wonder?).

**Spoilers Below**

Steven addressed some questions regarding Nobody No-one on the Big Finish forums (the producers of the Doctor Who audio series):

"I thought I'd stop by to quickly answer the question you raised about Nobody No One in your review, namely - why didn't anyone say 'nobody's powerless' or similar, and simply stop him in his tracks?

Well, the answer is (apart from the fact that the story would've been very short!) that while many of the other creatures from Nobody's dimension would be very much at the mercy of our words if they were ever to come here, Nobody is a full-blown Word Lord, equipped with his own CORDIS, and with that comes the ability to manipulate the effect for his own ends, to choose to take or not to take the various avenues other character's words open up for him (it's intended to be the equivalent of all living beings experiencing time in our dimension, but Time Lords having the power to manipulate it for their own purposes)

Funnily enough, I did think of adding a scene to make this clearer but the 25 minute format is punishing and the extra exposition felt heavy on top of everything else, so in the end Nobody's ability to selectively make use of the 'nobody can' effect had to stay implicit rather than explicit."

This fantastic alternative cover for The Word Lord was designed by Colin Brockhurst.

I just listened to this, and I think my first visit to the Doctor was a positive one.

Or, my prognosis is that it looks a case of interesting radio drama.

Or, can someone call in a prescription for a script of this?

EDIT:

Here's a character list from 'The Word Lord', according to the link above.

The Doctor
Hex
Ace
System
Private Fenton
Commander Claire Spencer
Captain James Hurst
Nobody No-one

Now, like I said above, I don't know much about Doctor Who, though from my quick google searching, I'm pretty sure only the first three (and System, which I am pretty sure is the voice of TARDIS) are recurring Doctor Who characters. It might just be a coincidence, but Private Fenton sort of intrigues me, if not for the name alone. Mainly because a "Bob Fenton" appears in The Raw Shark Texts (page 35, Canadian hardcover), as part of one of the addresses on the envelopes Eric finds in the package containing the Light Bulb Fragment.

Of the other names, two (Harrison Brodie and Simian Keslev) appear in some of Steven Hall's other work ('Not Jesus Yet' and a "deleted-scene" from The Slashmoderists (from which 'Not Jesus Yet' is excerpted). Confused yet? Me too, honestly). The other name is Steven Hall himself.

Anyway, the point I am trying to make, is those four names (Keslev, Brodie, Hall, and Fenton) are all connected, by at least coincidence, with works by Steven Hall.

The Doctor has encountered creatures in the TV series that survived in books and were described as analogous to fish, the Season Four two-parter, "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead".

In these episodes, the Doctor's enemy don't just lurk in the shadows; they are the shadows. The Vashta Nerada, described by the Doctor as "piranhas of the air", are microscopic beings that live in swarms in forests; their eggs can survive in wood pulp. Their name means "shadows that melt the flesh"; according to the Doctor they inspired a fear of the dark in most species across the Universe, since any shadow could be made of Vashta Nerada.

In the first episode the Doctor arrives on a planet called "the Library", devoted entirely to being a repository for books. However, the Vashta Nerada's eggs had survived the book production process and had subsequently manifested themselves, eating anything that stepped into the shadows.