The Caves of Androzani
(Featuring the Fifth Doctor and Peri) Written by Terrance Dicks Read by Peter Davison RRP £20 (CD)
Available from BBC Audio
First published in 1984, just eight months after its TV equivalent, Terrance Dicks’ novelisation of The Caves of Androzani is a pacey tome that distils the essence of the screen classic into a well-constructed adaptation. With the addition of Peter Davison – who bookends the Fifth Doctor’s literary era with an earlier reading of Castrovalva – this recording becomes an urgently rendered sci-fi thriller.