Doctor Who - Audio Details

One would-be assassin is in a mental ward.  Another's on the run.  Their intended victim is stirring up the mobs.  Terrorists are planning a strike of their own.  A talk-radio host is loving every minute of it.  A Whitehall insider whispers about a mysterious UN operative, with a hidden agenda.  Everyone's got someone they want you to be afraid of.  It'll only take a little push for the situation to erupt -- and something is doing the pushing.  But you can trust the Doctor to put things right.  Can't you?

Amazing.  Ten years to the month after I wrote my first headline for my local Who-club's newsletter - "Season 27 delayed; McCoy, Aldred may leave" - they're back, and I'm writing for them.  I could never have predicted the twisting paths that Doctor Who and I would take over that decade… but somehow everything came together at just the right time.  How very convenient, isn't it?

Unlike my fellow authors, I didn't have the luxury of attending the recording sessions for The Fearmonger - intercontinental travel costing what it does, but even so, I'm grateful for the chance to reconnect with the Seventh Doctor.  I still love the rumpled mage, the thousand-year-old clown, the odd little man with his unexpected power.  And beside him, Ace, facing a bif frightening universe with spirit and attitude, with the most amazing and scary and wonderful person we could ever imagine as our best friend.

It's a joy to have them back.

Jonathan Blum, December 1999