Out Now: Short Trips – The Shadows of Serenity

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The latest installment of Big Finish’s Short Trips range, The Shadows of Serenity, is available now.

The story, featuring the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown, and read by Nicola Bryant, is written by Nigel Robinson and produced by Michael Stevens.

The Guns of Malgar once defended their planetoid from any who strayed too close; just one gun could obliterate an entire star fleet.

The Malgarians are known as a vicious, belligerent species – so when the TARDIS brings the Doctor and Peri to their homeworld, they are puzzled to be greeted by a pacifistic population.

Peri assumes the Doctor has just got his facts wrong, but he is reluctant to accept the Malgarians’ uncharacteristic behaviour. What lies behind it, and what is the secret of the Sisters of Serenity?

Short Trips remained a popular series but has recently converted to being available solely as downloads – at the much cheaper price of £2.99! It would be nice to see each story for this fifth series packaged together in a physical release later this year, but who knows whether that’ll actually happen.

This Sixth Doctor tale is followed by Dark Convoy, a Seventh Doctor story, next month.

The Shadows of Serenity can be downloaded now from Big Finish for just £2.99.

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