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Doctor Who: The First Doctor Audio Adventures Reviews - Frostfire

Starring Maureen O'Brian & Keith Drinkel  Written by Marc Platt  Directed by Mark J. Thompson  Vicki has a tale to tell. But where does it start and when does it end?  Ancient Carthage, 1164 BC.  Lady Cressida has a secret. She keeps it deep in the cisterns below the Temple of Astarte with only one flame for warmth. And it must never get out.  Regency London, 1814 AD.  The first Doctor, Steven and Vicki go to the fair and meet the fiery dragon, the novelist Miss Austen and the deadliest weather you ever did see.  But which comes first?  The Future or the Past? The Phoenix or the Egg?  The Fire or the Frost?  Or will Time freeze over forever?  The very first Companion Chronicle is a bit of an unusual beast. With it being the first Companion Chronicle, there was obviously going to be some differences to how the Companion Chronicles are released nowadays, but, in a way, it's similar to those later instalments, with real reflections upon a character's life post there travel

Random Ramblings - Doctor Who: Antidote To Oblivion

Starring Colin Baker, Lisa Greenwood, Nabil Shaban, Dawn Murphy, David Dobson, Mary-Ann Cafferkey, Scott Joseph & Mandy Weston  Written by Philip Martin  Directed by Nicholas Briggs  Future Britain is bankrupt, it's corporate owners facing financial ruin. Fortunately, the Universal Monetary Fund, and it's slimy representative Sil, are willing to give it's President a multi-billion credit bail out... but terms and conditions apply, and Sil's proposed austerity measures go far beyond mere benefit cuts. Responding to a distress call, the Doctor and his companion Flip land in a London whose pacified population has been driven largely underground. But the horrors down there in the dark are as nothing to the horrors that await them at ConCorp HQ, where a young biochemist in Sil's employ is working on a permanent solution to the nation's terminal unprofitability. Because in the final account, Sil plans to make a killing... Many listeners will have been hotly antici