Jon Culshaw reads this exciting vintage novelisation of a Fourth Doctor TV experience, featuring the 1st appearance from the Daleks’ inventor, Davros.

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The place: Skaro

Period: The Birth of the Daleks

After a thousand many years of futile war against the Thals, the scientist Davros has perfected the physical form that will carry his contest into eternity: the dreaded Dalek. Without feeling, conscience or pity, the Dalek is certainly programmed to exterminate all lifeforms it deems second-rate.

At the order of the Time Lords, the physician, Sarah and Harry travel back through time in an effort to totally destroy this terrible menace of the future. But mainly because events spiral out of control in horrific ways, it becomes clear that even the physician cannot always win…

Jon Culshaw reads Terrance Dicks’s complete and unabridged novelisation, based upon the 1975 TV serial by Terry Country, first published by Target Books in 1976.