Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet: 4th Doctor Novelisation

Douglas Adams

Jan 2017 · BBC Digital Audio · Narrated by Jon Culshaw

About this audiobook

Jon Culshaw reads the brand new novelisation of a classic Doctor Who adventure by Douglas Adams. The hugely powerful Key to Time has been split into six segments, all of which have been disguised and hidden throughout time and space. Now the even more powerful White Guardian wants the Doctor to find the pieces.

With the first segment successfully retrieved, the Doctor, Romana and K9 trace the second segment of the Key to the planet Calufrax. But when they arrive at exactly the right point in space, they find themselves on exactly the wrong planet – Zanak.

Ruled by the mysterious ‘Captain’, Zanak is a happy and prosperous planet. Mostly. If the mines run out of valuable minerals and gems then the Captain merely announces a New Golden Age and they fill up again. It’s an economic miracle – so obviously something’s very wrong... Duration: 10 hours approx.

About the author

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) is a world famous author whose work includes five novels in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, two Dirk Gently novels, and three Doctor Who TV serials. He was script editor of Doctor Who in 1978/9, during which time he wrote City of Death based on a story by David Fisher. James Goss has written several Torchwood and Doctor Who novels, two radio plays, and is the co-author, with Steve Tribe of The Dalek Handbook and Doctor Who: A History of the Universe in 100 Objects. His Doctor Who audiobook Dead Air won Best Audiobook 2010 and his books Dead of Winter and First Born were both nominated for the 2012 British Fantasy Society Awards. He also novelised Douglas Adams's TV scripts for Doctor Who: City of Death.