Polly awakes somewhere that feels strangely familiar yet totally unrecognisable…

Guy Adams’ script for this final story of the set is very different from anything that the Chronicles has done before, making a virtue out of the two voice format in a manner that seems obvious in hindsight. It plays to the strengths of both Anneke Wills and Elliot Chapman once again, with both actors pushed a little outside the normal comfort zone of a Big Finish production.

There’s a very meta feel to the whole thing – which is explained in story – and there are links to the wider Doctor Who universe in a way that we rarely get with tales set during the 1960s. It’s a clever way of allowing for more stories in apparently non-existent gaps and it’s interesting hearing this so soon after Jonathan Barnes’ Short Trip, Falling, which covers some of the same period. What felt like production errors in the earlier stories are also explained as part of a masterplan that the potential to continue into a further set of Chronicles.

One of the nice touches throughout the set has been the contributions from sound designer and composer Robert T. Harvey in each of the extras, explaining how he came to create the varying different sound- and music-scapes. Hopefully these will be a hallmark of the range going forward.

Verdict: A very different but engaging conclusion to the set. 9/10

Paul Simpson