The First Doctor #18

'The Alchemists' (2013) from The Companion Chronicles.

Very nice to have another Pure Historical, and another Doctor-lite story. Really enjoying Carole Ann Ford's narration in these Companion Chronicles stories - she seems to be having a lot of fun with it. The Berlin setting is nice and the morals of time travel and war coming up are interesting, especially to see the First Doctor's opinions on it and compare that with how his opinion seems to have, not necessarily changed, but become more compassionate in incarnations like Ten down the line. Wraps up a little too quickly which I think has been the main issue with all of these stories so far, but a fun twisty-turny story overall.