Christopher Eccleston’s subsequent field set of audio adventures guarantees an encounter with Alpha Centauri.
August 2023 brings one other quantity of adventures for Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Physician. This time, we are able to stay up for a spooky teleport relay station and a whodunnit.
The set additionally reunites the Physician with an outdated good friend, the hermaphrodite hexapod Alpha Centauri. The high-pitched alien ambassador starred in two Pertwee-era tales representing the Galactic Federation. Additionally they made a short Capaldi-era cameo in ‘The Empress of Mars’.
Right here’s the synopsis for Journey in Hope:
The Physician crosses paths with many travellers – some at the beginning of their journey, some nicely on their means.
From the distant nodes of a transmat community, to fixing crimes at a spaceship service station, or serving to a good friend climb the political ladder – typically the journey is extra fascinating, and extra harmful, than the vacation spot…
The three tales are;
‘Under There’ by Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle
Vyx works on a teleport relay station within the darkest depths of area – and he or she’s afraid. Unusual voices crackle by means of comms channels, shapes collect exterior the starless viewing ports, and visions of dying and destruction plague her goals.
Then she will get a name from the Physician, who warns Vyx that her worst nightmares are about to turn into a actuality.
Kelly Adams (Hustle) stars in ‘Under There’ as Vyx Leeson.
‘The Butler Did It’ by James Moran
The Physician lands at a spaceship restore port on a dusty planet to tune up the TARDIS engines. However somebody has poisoned an outdated good friend of his, and now everybody on the station is a suspect.
It’s time to spherical up the clues, get out the magnifying glass – or sonic screwdriver – and test the butler’s alibi…
‘Run’ by Robert Valentine
When heinous demagogue Bellatrix Vega threatens the soundness of the Galactic Federation, the Physician convinces newly elected consultant Alpha Centauri to run towards her for president.
As Vega’s staff mount a marketing campaign of soiled methods, the Physician and Alpha should thwart a murderous conspiracy or see the galaxy’s biggest democracy turn into a brutal dictatorship.
Jane Asher stars as Bellatrix Vega, with Jane Goddard reprising her function Alpha Centauri. Plus, Nicholas Briggs as soon as once more voices the Ice Warriors.
“I can’t imagine [that] a few of the dramas I’ve recorded for audio haven’t been used visually within the tv collection. That’s the factor about Massive End. Their writers are top-drawer.”
Producer David Richardson added:
“It is a field set of contrasting tones – the darkish terrors of Under There, the wit and creativeness of The Butler Did It and the thrills and political intrigue of Run, as our three writers ship very totally different scripts.
“We’re fortunate to have such a beautiful solid on this set, giving performances that linger lengthy within the reminiscence lengthy after the closing theme has rolled. After I first joined Massive End, one of many first issues Artistic Director Nicholas Briggs stated to me was that to some extent we make these productions for ourselves – to intention to make issues that excite and entertain us, within the hope it does the identical for the broader viewers. And Journey in Hope ticked all my containers.”
Physician Who – The Ninth Physician Adventures: Journey in Hope is now out there to pre-order as a collector’s version 4-disc CD field set (+ obtain), or on digital obtain solely, completely from Massive End.
Take a look at our opinions of all of the Ninth Physician’s audio adventures right here.