Doctor Who - Audio Details

When a teleportation experiment goes badly wrong, Nyssa finds herself stranded on the freezing slopes of the Swiss Alps in 1963.  But is it mere coincidence that she finds shelter in a snowbound school haunted by a malevolent poltergeist?

When the Doctor arrives, Nyssa and the other inhabitants of the school soon discover that the ghost is merely part of a darker, deeper and more deadly game involving rogue psi talents and something else…

Something not of this Earth.

Winter for the Adept is a title I've wanted to use for as long as I can remember.  The decision to do an audio adventure for Doctor Who gave me an opportunity to explore the mood the title conjured and begin dreaming up some suitable characters and situations.

On a more practical level, a one-line pitch to the producers ("St Trinians with witches") got the ball rolling, and soon we were all involved in a sinister finishing school in the Swiss Alps.

A couple of rewrites later - I won't even mention the abortive moonbase sequence - and suddenly a top flight cast and crew were gathered in a small studio in Fulham to make it all come to life.

On the first day of recording there was an eerie smell of incense along the entire street leading to the studio.  Honest, guv

Andrew Cartmel, April 2000