Doctor Who: Enemy
Aliens (Destiny of the Doctor 8)
Audiobook
By DJ Forrest
Written by Alan Barnes
Readers:
Michael Maloney, India Fisher
Running
Time: 1hrs
Publisher:
AudioGo Ltd
Number
of CD’s: 1
Release
date: 01/08/2013
Its 1935, London, and
the 8th Doctor and his companion Charley Pollard have an investigation to
uncover. After a message that was cut
short in the Tardis by unknown circumstances, they are made aware that an enemy
alien invasion is coming to Earth and are made aware also that William Tell is
part of the plot. They also have to find
the Secret Key in the Hidden Lock.
When Charley begins
humming the tune to Rossini’s William Tell Overture, strange and disturbing
things begin to happen. And when they
visit the Trumps Music Hall and begin to ask one of the acts on stage, a man
who can foresee the future the man is killed by an unknown assailant. But as the crowd scatter in mad panic, and
Charley picks up the gun that has landed at her feet a good looking man comes
to her aid, posing as a policeman and they leave the music hall together.
Led out of the music
hall the man whom she discovers isn’t really a police officer but is unsure who
he may be wakes up in his apartment to noises downstairs. The Doctor had been arrested the day before,
his hands covered in blood from the dead man whom he’d tried to save, but to no
avail. But according to the papers of
the day, had escaped from the custody of the police and was at large, along
with Charley Pollard.
I’ve never read any of
the 8th Doctor stories and found this a delightful audiobook narrated by India
Fisher who through her narration reminded me of the black and white movies I
used to watch as a kid, the St Trinian’s jolly hockey sticks and What-ho
accents! She’s very clear in her
pronunciations and although she covers the voice of the Doctor, she is helped
along in the story by Michael Maloney who covers the voice of Hilary
Hammond. The good looking man who saves
Charley but hides a dark secret!
The story is a very
jolly affair, despite the levels of trouble both Charley and the Doctor become
embroiled in but what I found most enjoyable about this story was that it
featured the Thames Clyde train that took the adventure into Dumfriesshire,
which is very close to home. I did smile
at the mention also of the citadel on the English border that was quite
amusing.
The 8th Doctor came
across an awful lot like the 11th in the way he spoke and reacted, and I wonder
if that’s down to the writer who has also written 11th Doctor Stories.
.
The story is well put
together and you have to pay a good deal of attention to the plot as it reaches
a very dramatic conclusion that I found really ingenious in its
description. I’m not giving any clues on
that as this is a new story and it’s something you’re going to have to find out
for yourself.
India Fisher is a
British actress who has provided the voiceover for MasterChef and also the
voices for a series of sci fi audio dramas such as Doctor Who and Big Finish
Productions and the Sci Fi Channel UK’s online audio version of Blake’s 7
playing Lora Mezin.
Michael Maloney is an
English actor whose first appearance saw him as a teenager in the 1979 drama
series ‘Telford’s Change’. He has since gone on to appear in many film and
television programmes, radio and stage dramas, including ‘Truly, Madly, Deeply’
and ‘The Thick of It’.
Alan Barnes is a British
writer and editor, his notable works are Judge Dredd and Doctor Who.
He worked as editor of
Judge Dredd Magazine from 2001 to December 2005 and worked for five years at
Doctor Who Magazine progressing from writing strips to becoming joint editor in
1998 to sole editor from 2000 to 2002.
This is a delightful
audio, which also includes a few place names I’m familiar with along the
route. Well worth a listen to, and well
worth hunting out a few more audio adventures with the 8th Doctor
and his companions.
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