Audio Being an Eighth Doctor completist does take you to some strange places. The Lost Magic is the third installment of a four part arc across four audiobook cds featuring Twelfth and a couple of teenage companions from the United States co-written by George Mann and the author of this installment Cavin Scott. It's a quasi-historical set on the eve of the Spanish Armada in which the Doctor investigates why the astrologist John Dee knows High Gallifreyan and is "inventing" anachronistic technology years before it should exist. Given everything, I think you can probably guess what kind of entity it might be. The area around Plymouth is wracked by time winds and Eighth cameo happens when the Doctor finds himself at the epicenter of a storm which forces him to degenerate backwards through his incarnations. Here's a transcript of Eighth's entire cameo: "Another flash and he was young, long hair flowing freely in the wind: "Need to win back control." Back in the day, there was a (probably) made-up rumour that one of the Christmas specials would feature just such a storyline with Tennant and McGann playing through large portions of the action. If only. Clearly this doesn't really count as an Eighth Doctor adventure. He still has all the Time Lord's experiences and memories through to Twelfth, so although he looks like him and talks like him (I suppose), it's not really him. But like I said, being an Eighth Doctor completist does take you to some strange places. The real star of the cd is Dan Starkey, an expert and exciting reader who's rendering of some of the Doctors is extraordinary. But much like Fraser and Pat, Dan's imitation of Peter is eerie in places, exactly the right area of whichever planet his Scottish accent is from. If only he'd managed to sneak in a "Don’t forget to click below to subscribe to the Official Doctor Who YouTube channel."Placement: New category! "Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the Eighth Doctor".
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