Dan Starkey reads a whole new audio experience for the Eighth Doctor, occur Victorian Edinburgh. It’s the past due 1890s, and newspapers journalist Adam MacFarlane is over the trail of the supernatural entity. He’s joined in his investigations by a mystical stranger, who calls himself the physician and professes to learn a lot about vampires.

As gangs of local people gather zombie-like around the city’s streets, James and the physician find themselves on a dangerous trail to find the truth. What links the secretive Lord and Woman Elmhurst to regional events? What strange force can be luring ordinary men and women to a local quarry? THE PHYSICIAN soon realises the answers rest in his personal past…

Dan Starkey, who performed the Sontaran Strax in it series, reads this unique story by Andrew Street featuring the 8th Doctor, as performed on Television by Paul McGann.

Reading made by Neil Gardner

Sound design by David Darlington

Task Editor: John Ainsworth

Professional Producer: Michael Stevens