May Day is certainly approaching in the English village of Small Hodcombe, scene of an ancient Civil War fight. When the TARDIS gets there, the Doctor’s friend, Tegan, is wishing to go to her grandfather. Yet the travellers find out that he provides mysteriously disappeared, as well as the prepared re-enactment from the battle provides taken on a menacing tone. Local schoolteacher Jane Hampden knows how the county squire programs to celebrate May Day: using the May Queen conference a grisly end. Can Jane make the villagers see sense, or are they all consuming some unseen pressure? The village cathedral holds the hints to what is happening in Small Hodcombe, and soon the Doctor is normally facing a historical alien foe. Can he and his close friends triumph against it? Eric Pringle’s novelisation of his personal TV serial can be examine by Nerys Hughes, who performed Todd in the Doctor Who event ‘Kinda’. ‘BBC Audiobooks provides chosen well using its books and offers taken the right approach with its readers… they benefit from new music and sound effects’ – Doctor Who Publication.