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Doctor Who: The Satan Pit

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Doctor Who: The Satan Pit

By: Matt Jones
Narrated by: Claire Rushbrook, Ronny Jhutti, Silas Carson, Maureen O'Brien
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A multi-voice reading of this thrilling novelisation of the 2006 BBC TV adventure.

The Doctor and Rose travel to Krop Tor – an impossible planet orbiting a black hole, defying the laws of physics.

With the TARDIS lost to them, trapped with a crew of human explorers and their alien servants - the Ood - they find ancient ruins…and something far older and darker stirring beneath the surface.

Whispers speak of a malevolent force imprisoned since before time – something that even the Doctor fears. As seismic horrors rise and minds begin to fracture, one terrifying question remains: what if the Devil is real?

Claire Rushbrook (Ida in the TV episodes), Ronny Jhutti (Danny), Silas Carson (the Ood) and Maureen O’Brien read screenwriter Matt Jones’s inspired retelling of his own two-part story from David Tennant’s first season as the Tenth Doctor.

Reading produced by Morrison Ellis
Sound design by Oliver Denman
Executive Producer: Michael Stevens

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It was absolutely brilliant and offered multiple perspectives from the episode! The performances were so fantastic and I just found it to be such an enjoyable and great read. I could not put it down! Definitely need more now!

A great adaptation

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I’m an old school whovian, who grew up in the age when we fans depended on the Target novelisations to relive the Doctor’s adventures once they’d been broadcast. Those novelisations are still dear to my heart, but they have dated more than a little.

Matt Jones’ novelisation of the TV episodes “The Impossible Planet” and “The Satan Pit” adds depth and context to the story we saw on screen, and delivers it in a very clever format that gets us thinking about the consequences of the Doctor’s actions to those who survive and are left behind. Jones proves that there’s still life in Doctor Who novelisations yet!

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