Serpent Crest 2: The Broken Crown

Oct 25, 2011 18:58

The third series of BBC Doctor Who audios by Paul Magrs, starring Tom Baker, have drastically improved on the first two by shifting to full cast plays and not having Richard Franklin as Mike Yates. The first episode here had us in a cyborg version of the later Russian Empire; here we have something narrsty in a Victorian vicarage, the vicar being ably played by Terence Hardiman. The young boy at the centre of the story is played by Guy Harvey, who struggles a little with the long passages of exposition inflicted on him by Magrs, but otherwise this is a rather good episode, Susan Jameson as the Doctor's companion Mrs Wibbsey being on top form, and Baker himself being unusually disciplined.

doctor who: audio, doctor who, doctor who: 04, writer: paul magrs

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