First time I've listened to anything with Iris (though know about her as a character from being in fandom spaces and watching things that talk about her). Katy Manning is a delight, and you can just tell from the performance how much fun she's having playing Iris.

All the cast in this are incredible to be fair, Antony Stewart Head plays Greyvorn spectacularly, especially in the scene where he sees the future of the planet, and of course Peter Davidson always knocks it out of the park with the scene of him and Iris talking about Adric's death being a highlight.

It's also interesting some ideas that it brings up that then get used by the new series, especially curious to me is what The Doctor says about being in the death zone with older versions of himself. I think the implication is meant to be that he's just talking about the events of The Five Doctors, but the fact he mentions that he was with himself "four, five, six times over" (where he'd only be with himself three times over in The Five Doctors), him talking about how they all looked older than him as if they'd kept on going, and him mentioning it after talking about the fourth doctor's regeneration leads me to my own personal headcanon. That being that he's talking about the Fourth/Fifth Doctor's versions of the Guardians of the Edge, and that when The Fourth Doctor regenerated, the version of the edge he saw took on the form of The Death Zone and he saw his previous regenerations as if they'd kept going (possibly including pre-hartnell ones given how many times over he mentioned seeing them).

Not sure if that headcanon really works, but hey, it's a fun one.

Overall though, the story itself was enjoyable and while i like the character stuff a lot, I don't think anything really leapt out as ***really*** good to me.

7/10