WRITER EXCLUSIVE
Romana’s Road
Doctor Who writer Stephen Gallagher has returned to the Whoniverse for new audiobook The Kairos Ring
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→ DOCTOR WHO WRITERS OF DAYS gone by making a belated return has become a bit of a thing lately. Rona Munro followed up 1989 episode “Survival” with 2017’s “The Eaters Of Light”. ’80s script editor Eric Saward recently penned a spin-off comic. But Stephen Gallagher has surely set a new record: The Kairos Ring is his first wholly original contribution to the Whoniverse since 1983’s “Terminus”.
An audiobook narrated by Steven Pacey (Blake’s 7’s Del Tarrant), it kicks off Beyond The Doctor, a new BBC Audio series recounting the further adventures of some of the Doctor’s companions. We’ll find out what Ian, Barbara, Ben and Polly did next in 2022. This opener centres on Time Lord Romana, who bid farewell to the Fourth Doctor at the end of Gallagher’s 1981 story “Warriors’ Gate”.