Doctor Who - Audio Details

That terrible old reprobate and transdimensional adventuress Iris Wildthyme has gone and locked herself up in a nunnery on the savage world of Artaris.

Here she is discovered by the Doctor and the reasonably brutal warlord Grayvorn.  Together - with a peculiar nun they pick up en route - they must travel the forests and swamps of this ghastly world in Iris's double decker bus in order to tussle - to the death - with a horde of flesh-eating zombies for a mysterious and holy relic of unfathomable value and questionable pedigree.

But what is the Mother Superior's part in all this?

Here comes Iris at last, and I can't wait.  I've been hearing her voice in my head for a while now.  I mean, not in some kind of deranged way, but she has been popping up in various things I've written in recent years - to infuriate, elucidate, generally temper, pour oil on troubled waters and lashings of Bombay Sapphire onto lewdly-shaped ice cudes.  And here she is in the flesh at last, tangling with the Doctor and various others in person, as it were.  For those who haven't wandered into her Sobranie-scented orbit before, all I can say is that she's a traveller and a meddler, ,just like the Doctor.  She roams the dimensions in her double decker bus (curiously smaller on the inside than the out) and more often than not makes situations rather worse on the whole.

And she's unwittingly responsible, here at the very start of the Excelis saga, while she's hermiting away in a nunnery atop the highest mountain of Artaris... for everthing - all the grand, splashy, story-arc-spanning climaxes - that wonderfully ensue from here on in...

Paul Magrs, January 2002