Doctor Who: The Art Of Death
Doctor Who: The Art Of Death – Written by James Goss & Read by Raquel Cassidy – CD / Download (AudioGo www.audiogo.co.uk)
A brand new story in which the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory are lost, and thus inexorably caught up in a planet ending and possibly universe changing adventure, in that wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey stuff that makes Doctor Who so much fun? I’d say that sounds like a perfect way to spend an hour or two on even the most jam packed, schedule filled day. I mean, come on, what’s the point of anything if you can’t find a couple of hours every day in which to enjoy yourself, and what better way to kick back and have a little fun than in the company of the Doctor? By company, I mean listening to his latest adventure, as you can’t actually spend any time with him. That’d be crazy, because everyone knows that The Doctor…Anyhow, moving on. In ‘The Art Of Death’, as has already been mentioned, The Doctor, Rory and Amy are lost in time, drifting backwards and forwards and appearing at random, around a fixed point, an Art Gallery. An Art Gallery that just happens to have a magnified glass ceiling that’s aimed directly up at that most impossible of (and by that I mean, shouldn’t exist) universal anomalies, a Paradox. A beautiful, light up the heavens with its astral glory, paradox. Then there’s Penelope, the girl who the gallery employs to sit in the gallery, watch the paradox and make sure nothing untoward happens in a room that’s been known to drive people over the edge of madness and into the chasm of insanity. Whose voice is it that Penelope can hear whispering to her in the gallery, and just how is the skeletal, mirrored creature that sometimes appears in the gallery linked to the paradox and Penelope, and why does the Doctor keep appearing to her? The answers are more terrifying than anything Penelope could have imagined, and if she’d known the truth, she’d have jumped into the chasm, giggling manically until she hit the bottom. ‘The Art Of Death’, another excellent addition to the arsenal of James Goss, brought into being and given life by Raquel Cassidy, proves that there’s no better way to spend your time (as long as you’re not lost in it of course) than in the company of The Doctor. Let me just clear my schedule… Tim Mass Movement
