Friday, 22 August 2008

New Companion Chronicles


Read by CAROLE ANN FORD as SUSAN
With STEPHEN HANCOCK as THE FIRST MATE

(Duration: 60' Approx)

CAST:

Carole Ann Ford (Susan); Stephen Hancock (The First Mate)

SYNOPSIS:
A new adventure with the First Doctor as told by his grand-daughter, Susan.

It was a terrible sound, like someone had just stabbed the Universe and it was crying out in pain

The distant future. The TARDIS, with the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara aboard, is drawn out of the Vortex and lands aboard the Earth Benchmarking Vessel Nevermore, where Captain Rostrum is navigating by punching holes in the very fabric of space. The Doctor is appalled by this act of vandalism, and fearful that it could unleash monsters from the dark dimensions.

As the benchmarking holes begin to fray, the fate of the universe is at stake. And while the Doctor contemplates a terrible sacrifice, Susan befriends the Nevermore’s First Mate - someone she will remember for the rest of her life…


Read by DEBORAH WATLING as Victoria Waterfield
With HELEN GOLDWYN as Tara Kerley

(Duration: 60' Approx)

CAST:

Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield); Helen Goldwyn (Tara Kerley)

SYNOPSIS:
A new adventure with the Second Doctor as told by his companion, Victoria Waterfield.

The Great Space Elevator is a marvel of human engineering; a transit tube stretching from the equator up to a space station held in geosynchronous orbit.

When the TARDIS lands in Sumatra in the future, the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria are captured by guards just as the station loses power. Together with Security Officer Tara Kerley, the three travellers take a one-way trip on the elevator to fix the problem, and find themselves confronted by a powerful alien force that threatens to wreak chaos on Earth…


Read by KATY MANNING as Jo Grant
with JANE GODDARD as Mrs Killebrew

(Duration: 60' Approx)

SYNOPSIS:
A new adventure with the Third Doctor as told by his companion, Jo Grant.

Retrocausation! Events before their cause. Time in reverse.

While investigating a temporal anomaly in Central London, the Doctor and Jo Grant meet Professor Harold Saunders, a man who possesses an unstable alien artefact, and who is seemingly haunted by the ghosts of dolls.

Who is the mysterious Mrs Killebrew? Why is a pack of hounds hunting them in reverse? And can Jo pick up any bargains while backwards shopping on Oxford Street?


Read by Louise Jameson as Leela

With David Warner as Co-ordinator Angell


(Duration: 60' Approx)

CAST:

Louise Jameson (Leela), David Warner (Co-ordinator Angell)

SYNOPSIS:
The present: Leela is doomed, trapped inside a prison cell of a dead race.

The past: After a disaster aboard the TARDIS, the Doctor and Leela arrive at the capital city of Synchronis, a world renowned for peace and civility. But an attack by a vicious creature leaves the Doctor in a coma, and Leela is persuaded to fight in the forthcoming Empathy Games, where she discovers that nothing on this world is as it seems.

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