An unabridged reading of this novelisation of the classic 1960s Television serial, featuring the next Doctor. When space beacon Alpha One disintegrates into lumps of metallic, General Hermack of the area Corps realises that space pirates can see a new way to obtain valuable argonite. After witnessing further destruction, the overall leaves a squad of guards on beacon Alpha Four – just like the TARDIS materialises.

Suspected by the Space Corps to be pirates, then pursued as spies from the pirates themselves, the physician, Zoe and Jamie try to unmask the mastermind behind the thefts of argonite. In doing so they risk execution, explosion, and asphyxiation in the vacuum of space. Duration: 4 hours approx.