Audio The stories in this fourth anthology of this series are all tonally pretty dark, with each incarnation of the Doctor on several backfeet, all of them illustrating Clive Finch's warning to Rose that the Time Lord's constant companion is death. In the first story by Jonathan Morris, the Fourth Doctor comes face to someone else's face with the Harmony Shoal from The Return of Doctor Mysterio as they possess their way through a human colony. The second has the Sixth Doctor and Mel defending a castle against the clockwork droids from The Girl in the Fireplace with Jac Raynor's script becomes darker and darker with each passing moment. Both are, of course, utterly brilliant, and I applauded in my lonely room at the end of both. But, wow, did I need to give it a day before I launched into the final two instalments.The Silent Priest/The Silent CityThis David K. Barnes two-parter doesn't offer much levity either. We meet the Eighth Doctor at a point in this incarnation, in the midst of…
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