Stories Audio Book Subscriber Short Trips The Caves of Erith 1 image Overview Characters Reviews 2 Statistics Quotes Overview Released Wednesday, December 16, 2015 Written by Alice Cavender Narrated by Stephen Critchlow Runtime 33 minutes Story Type Christmas Location (Potential Spoilers!) Earth Synopsis The Caves of Erith was the twenty-fifth Subscriber Short Trips audio story. It was read by Stephen Critchlow. It was released as a subscriber-exclusive download, available with subscriptions that included You Are the Doctor and Other Stories. It's Christmas, so the Doctor and Lucie spend Christmas in a B&B at a picturesque village, and they find that the village has had a large decrease in childbirth, and then they talk to the landlady's son, Oscar, about an almost extinct variety of bats. The Doctor and Lucie wake up next morning to see that Oscar has run off, and find him in a cave. There, he is trying to save a species of bat-people, and they want to reclaim earth by sterilisation... Listen Listened Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Eighth Doctor Lucie Miller Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 2 reviews 27 March 2025 · 38 words Review by Azurillkirby Kind of the opposite of the last one [The Young Lions]. The setup at the start was really interesting, but the conflict was not as much. Though that's underselling the conflict, it's still perfectly good. B. Maybe C. Azurillkirby View profile Like Liked 0 3 December 2024 · 196 words Review by deltaandthebannermen Spoilers This review contains spoilers! This is a little subscriber bonus short trip from Big Finish and finds the 8th Doctor and Lucie discovering an indigenous bat-like species living in some caves. It's all weirdly reminiscent of ...and the Silurians. There is a 'baddie' bat and a 'reasonable' bat. There is a human being duped into helping them wipe out humans. There are caves. The similarities are so obvious that it feels like there's a joke I'm missing (aside from what the Erith of the title is). It also has some odd references to Lucie's first audio adventure, Blood of the Daleks (what I can't work out is why the planet, Red Rocket Rising, or any of the specific circumstances are mentioned - it's all just vague references which seems odd when its a Big Finish story, not a story where they might need to worry about infringing copyright or something). The Christmassy links are basically the time of year the story is set and nothing more or less - although there is an odd baby being born bit at the end which I think is supposed to tie in with the birth of Jesus. It's all a bit odd, really. deltaandthebannermen View profile Like Liked 0 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating28 members 3.17 / 5 Member Statistics Listened 31 Favourited 0 Reviewed 2 Saved 2 Skipped 0 Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote
