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What a masterclass of a story. It's genuinely so impressive that a story like this can manage to be so grounded and simple and yet have such high stakes at the same time. You're lured in with a false sense of security, River is on a small island with a fairly average, normal family. And then the broadcast starts. And there's a sense of impending doom from there on out. There's no clever plan to beat the villain or anything, River is just trying her best to keep one family alive for slightly longer.

It's the first story in the Diary of River Song that genuinely makes her feel distinct from the Doctor in that she doesn't always save the day with some grand speech and it's frankly quite refreshing. Alex Kingston puts in her best performance yet alongside one of the best supporting casts I've heard in any Big Finish audio drama. By the end of it you genuinely care about these characters as much as River herself which is quite an impressive feat in just 50 something minutes.

I cannot overstate how much of a banger this is.

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