Doctor Who: The Space Pirates

Terry Molloy reads this exciting classic novelisation of a Second Doctor TV adventure

When a series of explosive charges detonate, space beacon Alpha One disintegrates into lumps of metal. A band of space pirates have discovered a new source of the precious mineral argonite.

General Hermack of the Space Corps diverts his V-ship to investigate, and arrives in in time to witness the destruction of another beacon. Determined to trap the pirates, he leaves a squad of guards on beacon Alpha Four – where, shortly afterwards, the incongruous shape of a blue police telephone box materialises.

Suspected by the Space Corps of being pirates, and then pursued by the pirates themselves, the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie risk asphyxiation, execution and explosion in their attempts to unmask the mastermind behind the argonite raids. But who can it be?

Terry Molloy, who played Davros in the BBC TV series, reads Terrance Dicks’s complete and unabridged novelisation of a 1969 serial by Robert Holmes, first published by Target Books in 1990.

Reading produced by Neil Gardner
Recorded at Ladbroke Audio Ltd
Sound design by Simon Power for Meon Productions - www.meonsound.com
Executive producer: Michael Stevens
TARDIS sound effect composed by Brian Hodgson

CD 1
1 Chapter 1: Spacejack
6 Chapter 2: The Intruders
9 Chapter 3: Trapped
13 Chapter 4: The Renegade
16 Chapter 5: The Survivors

CD 2
1 Chapter 6: Pursuit
5 Chapter 7: Missile Attack
8 Chapter 8: The Fugitives
12 Chapter 9: The Prisoners
16 Chapter 10: Escape

CD 3
1 Chapter 11: Betrayed
6 Chapter 12: Rocket Blast
10 Chapter 14: A Coffin in Space
15 Chapter 15: Countdown to Doom