A brand-new trilogy of udio dramas begins this July with The Worlds of Doctor Who – Dark Gallifrey: The Decayed Master. Starring Geoffrey Beevers as the Master, this three-part tale follows the Doctor’s arch-enemy in his most sadistic and disturbing persona – the Decayed Master.
Geoffrey Beevers first played the Master in the 1981 Doctor Who TV story The Keeper of Traken. Now, in his first-ever audio adventures, he returns as the fiendish Time Lord on a wrath-filled journey that will take him from a Victorian country house to the Venetian Republic, and then on to medieval York.
Part one will release in July and takes the Master to a beautiful and secluded country house during the Christmas of 1896. Diana Blount has lived at the house all her life, but with the death of her father, this Christmas will be the last she spends in her childhood home. Charlotte, her cousin, is also spending the season with her, but one day, their games and ghost stories begin to get out of control in the old abandoned east wing of the property, and something is trying to get through into the mortal realm, something with a Master to serve.
Geoffrey Beever
Part two (arriving in August) takes listeners to the canals and ballrooms of 18th-century Venice. Here, Lupo the mask-maker, impresses the rich with his delicate brushwork. But Lupo’s past is about to catch up with him, and the powerful enemy he made on a distant planet is using the ancient, legendary ‘skiproads’ to wreak havoc upon Lupo and the city.
In September’s Part three of the tale, Naava flees the Master to the plague-infected streets of York to warn her old friend Calix, the greatest of the chronosurgeons, of the nightmare on her tail. However, something else is using these ancient routes, leaving Naava with only one hope to set things right and escape the Master, but he’s hundreds of years in the future and listening out for ghosts.
All three parts of The Worlds of Doctor Who – Dark Gallifrey: The Decayed Master are available to pre-order for £8.99 for the download or £10.99 for the download and limited, collector’s edition CD.
