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| By: | Matthew David Rabjohns, Bridgend, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Thursday 9 June 2011 |
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| Rating: |  10 |
This story has all the staple Simon Guerrier elements. A strong narrative, strong characters and an easily followable pace. Caroline John sinks back effortlessly again into the role of the brilliant Liz Shaw, whilst Lex Shrapnel is excellent as the soldier in this one. It really is so good hearing tales from the first three Doctors again. Its a real decent tribute to the memory of the great William, Patrick and John. These companion tales just get better all the time. Ive not yet heard a real true dissapointment in this brilliant range of audio books. And Shadow of The Past is one of the strongest, its definitely worth a buy.
| By: | David Layton, Los Angeles, United States |
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| Date: | Sunday 4 August 2024 |
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| Rating: |  7 |
In this story, Dr. Elizabeth Shaw returns to the UNIT vault to inspect a piece of leftover alien technology some twenty years or so after UNIT had captured it. She gets to chatting with the UNIT guard assigned to her, which leads her into telling the story behind the capture of the alien device. The story she tells is very much in the vein of 1970 Doctor Who, quite a bit like a Quatermass story. Writer Simon Guerrier has given Liz room to express some of her own views of her time at UNIT and her relationships with The Doctor, The Brigadier, and other UNIT members. The surprise ending was not very surprising to me; I got it less than halfway into the story. Nevertheless, this is a good example of how a Companion Chronicle can give the listener a new understanding of old Doctor Who.
