Doctor Who - Audio Details

Germany, 1589: the townspeople of Cologne pronounce a sentence of death on a mass-murderer who has stalked the countryside in the guise of a ferocious wolf.

Russia, 1812: retreating from Napoleon's invading forces, a merchant's daughter is rescued from bandits by a handsome partisan with a ravenous appetite.

Brazil, 2080: the Doctor and Turlough arrive for the Rio de Janeiro carnival.

Is wealthy heiress Ileana de Santos all that she seems?  What sinister ailment afflicts her invalid son, tended by the mysterious Dr Hayashi?  And who exactly is Rosa, engaged on a secret quest to fulfil the destiny of her extinct tribe?

Time is running out for Rosa, Ileana and the Doctor, as the fearsome shadow of an ancient werewolf moves ever closer…

I've always had a sneaking suspicion, or vain hope, that there are more powers in Heaven and Earth than we humans can possibly comprehend.  Always just out of the corner of the eye.  Maybe we're too self-absorbed to notice.  Or just not allowed to see.  They might be just behind you right now...

There are more werewolves out there than you think.  They have websites.  Take a look.  Strangely jolly.  And that's odd, because it's their inherent sadness that I've always liked - doomed to a lonely existence, proqling the dark alleys of time - the moon, the gipsy girls, the torch carrying mob...  Actually full moons don't appear in any legend I found.  So maybe it's just a Hollywood embellishment.  But supposed those wolves formed into a pack?  I wondered if the Doctor, champion of the underdog, would be rather more charitable to them than the average human.  But then what about the effect the Doctor himself has on the people whose lives he disrupts?  The Fifth Doctor might seem an attractive and intelligent companion for a lovely she-wolf.  But how would he cope?  And then I discovered The Damnable Life and Death of Stubbe Peeter, an allegedly true account of a werewolf trial in medieval Germany.  Big Bad Werewolf or not, Stubbe was a real fiend, just begging to be a monstrous third corner in maybe the weirdest eternal triangle ever.  But whatever happened to Little Red Riding Hood...?

Marc Platt, March 2001