Audio This Eighth and Audacity adventure is part of anthology of stories released this past Halloween along with outings for nuUNIT, Stephen Noonan's First Doctor and Jon Culshaw's Twelfth. We open pretty generically with the TARDIS team following a strange vision to a vessel in a need of repair and a paranoid crew. But there's plenty of meat on these bones, or rather bark on the trunks (see below) through rich characterisation and some genuine mystery. It's also a rare chance to hear this TARDIS team without Charley around (she's left in the house on Baker Street) demonstrating my point from the Causeway review about how more than one companion can soften these central relationships. Noga Flaishon's script also continues the cross franchise effort to bring species evolved from trees together under the description of "arboreals" which includes the likes of the Forest of Cheem (although not enough to warrant their own TARDIS Wiki entry).
Placement: It's 1968 so it can't be set during In The Bleak Midwinter so I'm going to be bold and put it after Causeway. For now.
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