Peter Purves reads this first experience featuring the First Doctor, Steven and Sara, set in the First World War.

‘The Battle of the Somme may be the pivotal second of the conflict… History depends on it!”

It’s the start of August 1916, and war is raging on the battlefields of France. In leading line trenches, United kingdom soldiers are vanishing without trace. Captain Mark Steadman witnesses one of his comrades being pulled down beneath the dirt, and realises that something is certainly terribly wrong..Read More about Doctor Who: Men of Battle: 1st Doctor Sound Original

When three civilians and a big blue box arrive for the picture, Steadman finds himself helping within their enquiries. THE PHYSICIAN declares that something has truly gone wrong using the timeline of the Battle; the Battle of the Somme must have already begun, yet there is absolutely no sign from it. He needs an viewers with Field Marshall Haig! A crater in no-man’s property discloses the grisly horror of the missing men’s destiny, and brings the Doctor and his close friends into terrible danger. You will find forces at the job here which also he can’t fully comprehend.

Peter Purves, who also played Steven in the BBC TV series, reads this powerful new story by Justin Richards.