Derek Jacobi, Peter Ling: Doctor Who: The Mind Robber (AudiobookFormat, 2009, BBC Studios Distribution Ltd)
Audiobook
English language
Published Aug. 2, 2009 by BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.
To escape a catastrophic volcanic eruption the Doctor takes the TARDIS out of space and time - and into a void he can only describe as 'nowhere'. But the crisis is far from over and when the time-machine's circuits overload, the TARDIS explodes. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe come to in a dark unearthly forest. There they encounter a host of characters who seem somehow familiar: a beautiful princess with long flaxen hair, a sea traveller dressed in eighteenth-century clothes, and a white rabbit frantically consulting his pocket watch...
What is happening to the three time-travellers? What strange power guides their actions? In the Land of Fiction who can really tell?
Derek Jacobi, who played The Master in the Doctor Who episode 'Utopia', reads Peter Ling's complete and unabridged novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1986.
Derek Jacobi's narration adds a certain gravitas to this surreal alt-reality tale of storybook characters interacting with the Doctor and his two companions. I loved the concept, although did feel it took too long to actually get going. Once underway, however, this is an entertaining listen and it was fun trying to recognise all the other storybook characters as they appeared.
