3,5 ( )

The Seventh Doctor is far from my favorite to listen to -- he's shouty and over-dramatic and pompous even for the Doctor -- but he's tolerable in a good story, and this was a pretty good one, if a bit kitchen sink in piling on the threats/villains. I could have done without Mr Anagram's pointless gloating soliloquies and I would have liked more than just the one scene that actually involved Munch, but hey. ( )

In a rare example of Who prescience, this story (made in 2001) revolves around the theft of Edvard Munch's painting The Scream. A partial sequel to The Genocide Machine, so again I found it a bit difficult to tell the difference between Bev and Ace; but I liked everything else about it, with Caroline John as the doomed grande dame in charge of festivities and Geoffrey Beevers playing the mysterious Mr Seta. (Who? Yes.) It's not easy to convey grand planetscapes and world-busting scenarios on audio, but I felt this succeeded. (The reprises at the start of each episode were surprisingly long though.) ( )