With this thrilling adventure – the beginning of the ‘Trial of a Time Lord’ tale arc – The TARDIS continues to be taken out of time and the physician continues to be brought before a court of his fellow Time Lords. There the sinister Valeyard accuses the Doctor of breaking Gallifrey’s most important regulation and interfering in the affairs of other planets. If the Valeyard can verify him guilty, the physician must sacrifice his remaining regenerations. To show his case the Valeyard focuses on an experience occur the Doctor’s past. It is an experience set on earth Ravolox, a seemingly primitive world but one that your Doctor and Peri find strangely familiar… Lynda Bellingham, who played the Inquisitor in the physician Who serial The Trial of a period Lord, reads Terrance Dicks’ complete and unabridged novelisation, first published by Focus on Books in 1988.