By Stephen Wyatt
Complete and unabridged novelisation
Narrated
by Sophie Aldred
Published
by AudioGO Ltd
Running
Time: 4hrs 44min
Number
of CDs: 4
Release
Date: 01/08/2013
The Greatest Show in the
Galaxy is as you may have guessed – a circus, but inside the tent with the
sawdust and the audience are circus folk you will have never seen before.
This story features the
7th Doctor and his companion Ace and they’re on their way to a
psychic circus on the planet Seganax, a wilderness of a place, barren
landscape, where kites (not the birds) are deployed to search for those who may
have escaped from the circus. A hearse
driven by the Chief Clown is called out to collect the runaways with his team
of robot clowns. You see once you enter
the circus, you can never leave!
There are two
characters, Bellboy who is a robot repairer employed by the circus, and there’s
Flower Child who is in love with Bellboy, and they escape but the kites with
eyes painted on them fly into the sky in search of the runaways, and when it
sights them, it sends a message through to the hearse and the clowns are
deployed. Bellboy knows he will never outrun the kites and acts as a decoy in
order for Flower Child to escape.
There are many
characters within the story, including a proud biker called Nord who is also a
little stupid, but they’re all going to the Circus, to perform their acts in
front of an audience of three!
Sophie Aldred really has
her work cut out in this story, as I said, there are many characters, so
obviously many voices and she does it so easily, throwing a Scottish accent for
the Doctor, Ace’s gruff stubborn voice, then the deep grumpy accent for Nord,
then there’s Bellboy and Flower Child and many more besides.
The audio story was
written by Stephen Wyatt, who also wrote the novel published by Target Books in
1989. Stephen also wrote and novelised
Paradise Towers.
Sophie Aldred is a
British actress and television presenter best known for her portrayal of the
Doctor's companion Ace from 1987 to 1989.
Sophie has also performed on radio and in theatre, reprising her role as
Ace in a charity special Dimensions in Time and the Doctor Who audio plays
produced by Big Finish Productions.
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