A drive through time

Our friends Mark and Rose, from Phoenix, have had a row. Rose has possibly done A Bad Thing this time, but Mark’s reaction to it is equally wrong.

We hear this short story from Mark’s perspective, and his disbelief, frustration and anger gives way to grief and horror as the spiralling, accelerating trap that Mark is in tightens its grip and tragic family secrets are revealed.

I say spiralling, as that is the predominant graphic that accompanies the audio this time and I am reminded of old Doctor Who opening titles and the idea of what life is like for the Doctor’s companions when they drop in and out of their lives within what is minutes for the Time Lord but years for them. I’m in bits by the end of the episode, it’s so sad.

A theme again this episode is a missing person, but with time travel – or a time prison of sorts – rather than what sounds like an alien attack. So I’m adding wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey to the list of strange goings on in this series.

Verdict: Heart-breaking loss as an unwilling time traveller doesn’t get to fix his mistakes. 8/10

Claire Smith