Nicola Bryant reads this classic novelisation of the Sixth Doctor Television adventure.

On the way to Kew Gardens, the physician and Peri arrive in Northern England at the time of the Luddite uprisings. Unfamiliar to them, the TARDIS has been dragged of course by the Grasp, who plans to pervert the span of background and eliminate his arch enemy forever. But also present is the Rani, another exile from Gallifrey, who is conducting her own evil experiments on the humans of the 19th Hundred years. Soon the physician discovers that the feminine from the species is far, significantly deadlier than the male .