Doctor Who: The Lost Flame: 12th Doctor Audio Original

Doctor Who: The Lost Series #4

by George Mann, Cavan Scott

Clare Higgins reads an exciting adventure for the Twelfth Doctor - as played on TV by Peter Capaldi - featuring the Sisterhood of Karn.

The TARDIS make a bumpy landing on Karn, home of the legendary Sisterhood. There the Doctor encounters his old acquaintance Ohila, who denies all suggestions of involvement in recent unusual activities on Earth.

The Doctor, Alex and Brandon move on to the planet Escalupia, a medical hub for Earth’s First Great and Bountiful Human Empire. There they find squalid living conditions and sinister, hovering drones preying upon the populace. Why does everyone fear doctors, and who is the Angel they seem desperate to see?

When Alex is captured by the drones, the Doctor discovers that the slums are test labs for huge medical companies, with the humans as lab rats. Furthermore, the mysterious Angel is someone they’ve encountered before - someone well known to Ohila…

The stakes are high, as the travellers and the Sisterhood fight to end an injustice and escape with their lives.

Clare Higgins, who played Ohila in the TV stories The Magician’s Apprentice and Hell Bent, reads this climactic original audiobook by George Mann and Cavan Scott, based on the hit BBC TV series.

Duration: 1 hour 16 mins approx

Genres: Doctor Who, Audiobook, Science Fiction, Fiction

34 pages, Audio CD

First published July 6, 2017

About the author

George Mann is an author and editor, primarily in genre fiction. He was born in Darlington, County Durham in 1978.
A former editor of Outland, Mann is the author of The Human Abstract, and more recently The Affinity Bridge and The Osiris Ritual in his Newbury and Hobbes detective series, set in an alternate Britain, and Ghosts of Manhattan, set in the same universe some decades later.
He wrote the Time Hunter novella "The Severed Man", and co-wrote the series finale, Child of Time.
He has also written numerous short stories, plus Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes audiobooks for Big Finish Productions. He has edited a number of anthologies including The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, The Solaris Book of New Fantasy and a retrospective collection of Sexton Blake stories, Sexton Blake, Detective, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock.

Reviews

[Bea]

Really don’t know how to rate this book because I was distracted listening to most of it so I’m not sure I even know what the complete plot is. Guess I’ll have to re-listen!

[Derelict Space Sheep · Rating 2 out of 5]

42 WORD REVIEW:

An exaggerated scenario with a deus ex machina finale. A concluding serial that ties in but tenuously with the rest of the series. Clare Higgins handles the reading with aplomb, but once again Cavan Scott and George Mann have failed to deliver.

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

An interesting premise when you get to it, which took far too long. Clare Higgins rendered the 12th Doctor nicely and he's given some decent lines but it was far too easy to drift away from the storytelling or not care that much.

Also.. "But I'm unqualified... but I suppose you'll need a nurse" Eeeeew.

[Shadowsword · Rating 3 out of 5]

Die Dynastie-Serie war besser als "die verlorene"-Serie. Ein nettes Hörspiel für nebenbei.
Alle wichtigen Themen kurz angerissen: Ghettos, Flüchtlinge, Kapitalismus, die Macht der Reichen und die Grenzen der Wissenschaft, Religion. Aber dafür ist es leider zu kurz mit 1 Stunde.

[Ashley Beery · Rating 4 out of 5]

I still felt the story line was a bit jilted, but overall it did feel like a Doctor Who episode and it still was a good listen. I just wish they had a better voice actor for the Doctor.

[Kathleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Der 12. Doctor Who wird sicher nie zu meinem liebsten werden, aber auch diese kurze Hörbuch-Reihe hat mich wieder überaus gut unterhalten. Fans werden auf jeden Fall auf ihre Kosten kommen.

[Tracy Smyth · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. I do enjoy these short little audio books and you gotta love Dr Who. They are great when you want to listen to something not to heavy

[Emma Dargue · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent enough 12th doctor adventure but nothing out of the ordinary. Good but not amazing.

[Stewart · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was...a finish, I suppose. Kind of tied things together. I don't really get what they were trying to do with this whole Lost Series, but I'd say it was largely unsuccessful.

[Oliver Knagg · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s the American health care system but with egg timer robots.
If you’re American then sorry for that. No offence intended.

[Jo-anne · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was nice to hear another story involving the twelfth Doctor. It wasn't the best story arc but the reader, Clare Higgins, provided a nice range of accents.

[Andy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great way to wrap up the “Lost” series featuring Alex and Brandon. The story was interesting and I liked how it ended.

[Jennifer Baratta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you so much George Mann and Cavan Scott. For this story.

[osoi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Сюжетная нить, старательно проведенная через первые три выпуска, находит свое логическое завершение в четвертом, и делает это достойно. Без особых восторгов, но добротно. Раскрывается источник магии, коей так бездумно швырялись в предыдущих историях. Тут же присутствует безрадостное человеческое будущее, где одним махом решается проблема перенаселения и медицинских открытий. Наличествует даже справедливый финал с ноткой грусти и без лишних выпрыгиваний из штанов (он в какой-то степени отрезвляет, потому что время чудесных спасений закончилось и наступила пора серьезных решений).

Оглядываясь назад, все четыре истории довольно ладно складываются в единую линию, но индивидуальные решения оставляют желать лучшего. Слепить бы их вместе и расширить декорации последней - была бы не книга, а загляденье.

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[Rhys Causon · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have to admit, I did not expect this “Lost [Blank]” story to end this way. Even though I had listened to this before. So it was a fun listen but obviously not too memorable yet still a good story for what it was.

[Jenny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well not bad but not great either.