The Roof of the World (audio story)


 * Not to be confused with the first episode of Marco Polo.

The Roof of the World returns to Tibet, though not for Robot Yeti, instead continuing to explore the Great Old Ones, who were first named as such in the Virgin New Adventures novel White Darkness.

Publisher's summary
Tibet, 1917.

It's a time of great exploration, with intrepid teams of adventurers heading blindly into uncharted territory, determined to beat inexplicable odds and overcome any challenge they encounter...

But some things are not necessarily that easy to defeat...

An ancient evil, perhaps older than time itself, is stirring deep within the heart of the Himalayas... It has always known it will return and finish off what it started so many centuries before...

But the time has to be right...

As the TARDIS materialises, with the Doctor determined to take full advantage of an invite to a cricket match, the catalyst that the dark forces need unwittingly arrives...

Cast

 * The Doctor - Peter Davison
 * Peri - Nicola Bryant
 * Erimem - Caroline Morris
 * Lord Mortimer Davey - Edward de Souza
 * Pharaoh Amenhotep II - William Franklyn
 * General Alexander Bruce - Sylvester Morand
 * John Matthews - Alan Cox
 * Pyran - Adrian Rigelsford

Elements

 * Peri has used liquid nitrogen on the TARDIS swimming pool to make a skating rink.

Foods and beverages

 * Unusually for this incarnation, the Doctor uses jelly babies as a bribe to get some sherpas to transport his TARDIS by yak.

Continuity

 * Lord Davey is said to be related by marriage to the Cranleigh family from DW: Black Orchid and MA: The Sands of Time.

Timeline

 * The Roof of the World occurs after ST: Graham Dilley Saves the World
 * The Roof of the World occurs before ST: The Gangster's Story