Peter Davison reads this exciting novelisation of the explosive final adventure for the Fifth Doctor.

“With plenty of actions the keep carefully the sound designers occupied and some haunting music, this an important addition to the BBC Audio range” – Doctor Who Newspaper, December 2018

As soon as they land on earth Androzani Minor, everything goes wrong for the physician and his new young companion, Peri.

They become involved in the struggle between brutal gun-runners, ruthless Federation troops, and about Doctor Who and the Caves of Androzani: 5th Doctor Novelisation the hideously mutilated Sharaz Jek, who lurks in the depths from the caves along with his android army.

Key to the struggle is spectrox, the most valuable product in the world. Suitably prepared, spectrox can be an elixir of lifestyle, but in its natural state it really is a lethal poison – a fact which will cost the physician another of his Time Lord lives…

Peter Davison, who portrayed the Fifth Doctor in the strike BBC TV series, reads Terrance Dicks’s novelisation of the initial serial by Robert Holmes, frequently named as one of the best ventures of the original Doctor Who all series. Duration: 3 hours 5 mins approx.