Moynihan, evoking strong memories of Mrs. Toby Longworth voices Sancreda, a little troll-like monster whose voice grates on my nerves like a waitress telling you that sharing your kids salad bar is against the restaurant rules! Barring Sancreda, the rest of the cast sounds great. The story starts in prehistory with a character that can rival Jim Carey for the most annoying noise in the world. But Big Finish does have him on the cover of the release, which is unfortunate because it was such a nice surprise, like when an old friend rings your doorbell to say hello! I think it has to be down to not having confidence in the sales of these items but time will tell. (Look, a lot has happened in the 20 years since I last listened to this!) When Courtney showed up, I was delighted. This will be my strategy going forward because when one of the characters asked if the Brigadier had been around the dig, I didn’t even think it would be Nicholas Courtney’s Brigadier. Lesson learned: I can at least be surprised with each episode from now on!

I closed the jewel case and put it in the center compartment to retrieve later.

Even then, still careful to avoid looking at the case, I opened it and put the discs in the player. Yeah, I listened to these when they first came out back in 1999/2000, but who remembers that? I reached up, took down the ninth release and carefully brought it to my car. I also didn’t listen to the preview at the end of the last story because I didn’t want the villain spoiled. Both of the last 2 releases had the villain on the cover so I decided I wouldn’t look at the cover when I took this next one off my bookshelf. After the last two stories, I’d learned a lesson.

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