JOURNEY INTO TERROR
Written by
TERRY NATION
1: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM
IAN: Surely we’ve got our twelve minute lead still?
DOCTOR: (Somberly.) I’m afraid not. It’s down to eight. It will be reduced even further after our next landing. We must face the facts; the
Daleks are closing in on us.
2: VORTEX
(The TARDIS journeys through vortex. Closer behind is the DALEK time machine.)
3: INT. HOUSE. DOWNSTAIRS HALL
(An eerie house. The fire in the main hall has two large closed eyes and a nose built into the stone above the mouth of the fireplace itself. The effect
created is of an open mouthed hideous Gargoyle like creature. The sound of thunder crashes through the room. Next to the fireplace, near to a cobweb-covered
candelabra, the TARDIS materialises. BARBARA steps out followed by IAN, VICKI and the DOCTOR. The main staircase of the house faces them. The ornate banisters
begin and end with statues of figures holding up bowls on their heads from which emanates a strange mist.)
BARBARA: I’m not wild about this place.
IAN: I don’t know...ideal place to fight Daleks, you know...good stout walls... (He walks over to the foot of the staircase.) an upper storey,
stairs...Daleks don’t like stairs.
(IAN steps on the first stair that creaks underneath his foot. Suddenly the lights flicker and a bat flies out of the darkness and swoops towards the
travellers as the thunder crashes again. BARBARA screams. The DOCTOR’S words of reassurance are drowned out by the thunder.)
VICKI: (Covering her head.) Probably vampires, if you ask me.
IAN: Oh, charming!
DOCTOR: Oh, rubbish my child. Vampire bats are only to be found in South America.
VICKI: Maybe that’s where we are?
DOCTOR: No, I don’t think so. Judging by the, er, architecture, I should say, er, Central Europe.
VICKI: Well, I’m with Barbara. I don’t like it here, I think we should go.
DOCTOR: Yes, in the normal, er...progress of time, m...my dear, I would say, er, ye...I would agree with you, but, erm, unfortunately we’ve got to face
the Daleks and I think it’s essential we take a look around. Let’s try upstairs, hmm?
(The DOCTOR steps on the first stair. Again it creaks, the lights flicker and the sound of more bats are heard.)
BARBARA: (Frightened.) Well, you got if you want to, but I’m staying near the TARDIS.
VICKI: Me too.
DOCTOR: Oh, very well, stay where you are. We shan’t be long.
(He starts to climb the stairs. He turns as he sees that IAN isn’t following. IAN takes the hint and repeats the reassurance to the girls.)
IAN: Shan’t be long.
(He follows the DOCTOR and the two nervous women are left below, clutching each other.)
BARBARA: Well Vicki, there’s...there’s really nothing to be scared of. (Stepping away.) This is...just an old house, it...we mustn’t let
our imaginations run away with us.
(There is another crack of thunder. BARBARA rushes back to VICKI.)
VICKI: No, you’re quite right. We...we mustn’t behave like children.
BARBARA: No, we mustn’t, now...come on, let’s, erm, let’s help the Doctor and look around down here. Erm, how about the fireplace?
(As the thunder crashes again, they walk over to the fireplace. Suddenly the two stone eyelids rise open and two evil eyes light up. The women jump and
nervously step away behind the TARDIS. They spot an old wooden chest.)
VICKI: Look at that.
(They step over to it.)
VICKI: What do you suppose is inside it?
(BARBARA is about to open it when they hear an evil laugh echo through the room. They open the chest. It is empty.)
VICKI: (Relieved.) Oh!
(The two women laugh. BARBARA shuts the chest. Suddenly a skeleton drops down between them. They scream...)
4: INT. HOUSE. LANDING
(The DOCTOR and IAN walk along a tapestry-covered landing. There is a crack of thunder. IAN stops, having heard the women scream.)
IAN: What was that?
DOCTOR: Oh, it’s just thunder, dear boy.
IAN: No, no, no, the noise before that.
DOCTOR: Oh, rubbish, there was no noise before that! Come along, come along. (Laughs.)
(The DOCTOR walks off. IAN pauses...and the ghost of a GREY LADY walks through him. IAN sees nothing but shivers as the apparition passes through. He looks
around, then walks on to the end of the landing. Next to a suit of armour is a doorway through which the DOCTOR is looking. Beyond are some steps leading down
to a room which is full of scientific equipment and a table, the contents of which are covered with a large cloth.)
IAN: What have you found now?
DOCTOR: Well, it looks...it looks like a laboratory to me. Look at all that equipment down there, hmm?
IAN: Doctor, I think we’d better check on Barbara and Vicki.
DOCTOR: Oh nonsense, we’ve only just left them, dear boy, hmm? Now, I must see what’s on that table.
(The DOCTOR walks down the steps.)
IAN: Must you? I’d really rather not know.
DOCTOR: You don’t mean that, do you? Where’s your spirit of adventure, mm? (Laughs.)
IAN: It died a slow and painful death when those bats came out of the rafters.
DOCTOR: Very well then, stay where you are! Mmm? Stay where you are! (Laughs.)
5: INT. HOUSE. LABORATORY
(The DOCTOR walks down the stone steps into the laboratory. Despite his misgivings, IAN follows. As they reach the base of the steps, the cloth falls back as
a bandaged-covered figure rises from the table - it is FRANKENSTEIN’S monster! The DOCTOR starts to run back up the steps. IAN stands mesmerised as the
monster starts to throw back the cloth and rise.)
DOCTOR: I say, I think we’d better check where Vicki and Barbara is!
(The monster stands. IAN needs no second bidding and hastily follows the DOCTOR. Once the two men have gone, FRANKENSTEIN’S monster falls back to the table
and lies down.)
VICKI: (OOV.) What’s that in aid of?
6: INT. HOUSE. DOWNSTAIRS HALL
(VICKI and BARBARA are waiting at the base of the stairs.)
VICKI: And what’s that in aid of?
(BARBARA nervously quotes from John Donne’s “Devotions upon emergent occasions”.)
BARBARA: “And therefore never send to know, for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee”!
(BARBARA looks round.)
BARBARA: I feel as though my hair’s turned white!
VICKI: It has as a matter of fact.
BARBARA: What!
VICKI: (Smiling, walking over to BARBARA.) It’s all right though. It quite suits you.
BARBARA: Oh Vicki!
(Behind them, a familiar form in a cloak walks out of a doorway. It speaks, in a strange disembodied voice - as though it were a recording.)
COUNT DRACULA: Good evening.
(The women gasp and spin round.)
VICKI: (Nervously.) Good...evening!
BARBARA: (Also nervous.) Who are you?
(The figure doesn’t speak for a moment. Then it raises a hand in a robotic fashion and speaks - again in a disembodied style, its lips not fully
synchronised with its speech.)
COUNT DRACULA: I am Count Dracula!
BARBARA: (Amazed and horrified.) But...you can’t be, I mean, not...not really!
(In answer, DRACULA just walks away through the hidden doorway.)
VICKI: He’s gone. Thank goodness for that anyway.
BARBARA: Vicki...do...do you think there’s something strange going on around here?
VICKI: (Sarcastically.) Oh no!
BARBARA: T...What....Why did he go away so quickly?
(BARBARA goes over to the hidden and now closed doorway. She tries to find it again.)
BARBARA: Well, I can’t seem to open it from this side. Vicki, do you supp....
(BARBARA turns round. VICKI is nowhere to be seen.)
BARBARA: Vicki? Vicki, where are you?
(BARBARA backs along the wall. Suddenly, she sees the GREY LADY above her on the landing. She gives out a banshee type cry. BARBARA looks up in terror and
back into an alcove - which turns on a pivot, taking BARBARA with it. She screams as she disappears.)
7: INT. HOUSE. CORRIDOR
(The DOCTOR and IAN stumble along a darkened corridor, the DOCTOR finding the way with his pen torch. The two men stumble into each other.)
IAN: Oh!
(The DOCTOR jumps and spins round to him, then sees who it is.)
IAN: Oh, there’s one thing about this place, Doctor; it certainly stimulates the phagocytes.
DOCTOR: Hmm. Hmm?
IAN: The phago...? (He shakes his head.) You know, it’s...it’s uncanny, strange and weird, but...
DOCTOR: Mmm.
IAN: ...it is familiar!
DOCTOR: Yes, that’s the word, dear boy, familiar! You know when I was coming down those stairs, I knew that thing was going to move, hmm? I knew it!
(Laughs.)
IAN: Oh, did you? I didn’t notice you standing around to check your premonition.
DOCTOR: I never stay where I’m not wanted. Come along.
(They walk on...)
8: INT. INT. HOUSE. LANDING
(...and onto the landing.)
DOCTOR: Huh! Pre-conditioned - that’s it! Pre-conditioned!
IAN: What are you talking about?
DOCTOR: This house is exactly what you would expect in a nightmare! Yes, we’re in a world of dreams; creaking doors, thunder and lightning, monsters
and all the things that go bumpety bumpety in the night! Hmm?
IAN: With one vital difference, Doctor.
DOCTOR: Hmm?
IAN: This house is real. It exists.
DOCTOR: Yes...yes, it exists - in the dark recesses of the human minds. Millions of people secretly believing! Think of the immense power of all these
people, combined together, makes this place become a reality, hmm? (Laughs.)
9: INT. HOUSE. DOWNSTAIRS HALL
(They step to the top of the stairs.)
IAN: Then we’re safe!
DOCTOR: Safe? What on earth do you mean, dear boy?
IAN: But the Daleks can’t touch us here? Not in the human mind?
DOCTOR: You know I believe you’re right. Yes! The Daleks can never land here! Ha ha!
(They start to run down the stairs. As they reach the bottom step...)
IAN: Woah!
(...they tread carefully. Again the step creaks, setting off the noise of the bats. They pause listening, then IAN notices the obvious.)
IAN: The girls have gone.
(The DOCTOR steps over to the TARDIS, opens the door and shouts inside.)
DOCTOR: Vicki! (He shuts the door and shouts round.) Barb...
(He crosses to IAN.)
DOCTOR: Perhaps they followed us upstairs, hmm?
(They walk back up the stairs. Behind them in the hall, the DALEK time machine materialises.)
10: INT. DALEK TIME MACHINE. MAIN CHAMBER
(An image of the downstairs hall of the house appears in the middle of one of the spinning concentric patterns.)
FIRST DALEK: The enemy time machine is here. We have caught them.
SECOND DALEK: Which planet are we on.
FIRST DALEK: Earth. They only changed their geographical and time location.
THIRD DALEK: This time they will not elude us. Already the search force is disembarking.
11: INT. HOUSE. DOWNSTAIRS HALL
(Two DALEKS glide out of the time machine.)
FOURTH DALEK: Search. I shall remain here in case they return.
12: INT. HOUSE. LANDING
IAN: Where are those girls, Doctor? Well we would have seen them if they were upstairs.
(He looks and points towards the stairs leading to the laboratory.)
IAN: Hadn’t we better take another look down there?
DOCTOR: Had we?
IAN: Afraid so.
DOCTOR: (Nervously.) Well, er, after you, dear boy! Mmm.
IAN: No, after you!
(The DOCTOR starts down.)
IAN: Wait for me.
(He follows.)
13: INT. HOUSE. LABORATORY
DOCTOR: Shh! Someone’s coming.
IAN: Well, take cover!
(They run down the stairs. IAN stops as he sees a DALEK in a small passage leading off the laboratory.)
DALEK: Where are the time travellers?
IAN: The time travellers? They’re...
(IAN quickly pulls down a portcullis that divides the passage from the laboratory. The DALEK starts to push and rattle the portcullis. The two men start to
leave the laboratory but suddenly the form of FRANKENSTEIN’S monster sits up on the table.)
DALEK: Do not move!
(The monster gets off the table.)
DOCTOR: The TARDIS! Quick!
(The two men run out of the room.)
DALEK: Do not move! I am a Dalek!
(The monster walks towards the DALEK. It fires on the creature who staggers back but regains its balance and carries on towards the DALEK.)
DALEK: We are invincible!
(The monster raises the portcullis and starts the attack the DALEK.)
DALEK: Stop! Stop! Ahh! Ahh!
14: INT. HOUSE. DOWNSTAIRS HALL
(The DOCTOR and IAN rush down the main staircase. VICKI runs forward.)
VICKI: Oh, there you are!
IAN: Vicki...
DOCTOR: Well where have you both been, eh?
VICKI: We climbed through a secret tunnel straight down...
IAN: (Interrupting.) There’s no time to tell us now. The Daleks are here.
BARBARA: Daleks!
IAN: Yes.
VICKI: Look out!
(On the other side of the hallway is a DALEK.)
FOURTH DALEK: Halt! You will be exterminated!
(Behind it, the form of COUNT DRACULA again steps out of the hidden doorway and speaks again in a disembodied voice.)
COUNT DRACULA: Good evening!
(The DALEK turns round to look at it.)
IAN: Quick! Into the TARDIS while we’ve still got a chance!
(The DOCTOR, IAN and BARBARA rush for the TARDIS. VICKI stops to shout out a warning to COUNT DRACULA.)
VICKI: Look out, he’ll kill you! You’ll be killed!
(The DALEK fires at DRACULA. The figure is bathed in the rays but fails to fall.)
COUNT DRACULA: I...am...Count...Dracula.
(It turns to leave. VICKI makes a run for the TARDIS but is quickly surrounded by more DALEKS. The TARDIS starts to dematerialise.)
FOURTH DALEK: Eradicate her!
(The form of FRANKENSTEIN’S monster steps out of a doorway. A DALEK turns to face it. The TARDIS fades away. FRANKENSTEIN’S monster starts to pick up a
DALEK.)
FOURTH DALEK: Obliterate.
(COUNT DRACULA walks forward again.)
COUNT DRACULA: I...am....Count...Dracula.
(The FOURTH DALEK spins round. Realising that it has failed to exterminate the creature, it starts to back away. DRACULA walks forward in a robotic fashion
and starts to repeat...)
COUNT DRACULA: Don’t go. Don’t go. Don’t go.
(FRANKENSTEIN’S monster lifts the DALEK above his head into the air...)
COUNT DRACULA: Don’t go. Don’t go.
(...and dashes it to the ground.)
COUNT DRACULA: Don’t go.
(The GREY LADY appears on the landing and again gives out her wail.)
COUNT DRACULA: Don’t go. Don’t go.
(Another DALEK fires on the GREY LADY as FRANKENSTEIN’S monster starts to pound at its victim.)
COUNT DRACULA: Don’t go.
(The GREY LADY is as unaffected as her companions by the DALEK fire power. She laughs. VICKI takes advantage of the confusion to dash into the DALEK time
machine.)
FIFTH DALEK: Embark at once!
FOURTH DALEK: At once!
FIFTH DALEK: Yes! Embark!
FOURTH DALEK: Embark! At once!
DALEKS: Embark! Embark! Embark! Embark!
(The DALEKS cautiously glide past FRANKENSTEIN’S monster as it finishes off its victim and into their time machine.)
15: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM
(The time path detector continues to bleep.)
IAN: This game of hide and seek through time is wearing a little thin now.
DOCTOR: Game? (Laughs.)
IAN: What an extraordinary place, eh? More spooks in a square mile than the Tower of London.
DOCTOR: Yeah...
IAN: You know that theory of yours...
DOCTOR: Theory, my dear boy? Fact - I am convinced that that house was neither tame...time nor space. We were lodged for a period...in an area of human
thought.
IAN: And were the Daleks lodging too?
DOCTOR: Oh, I don’t want to enter into it...
IAN: Oh, no, no, no!
DOCTOR: (To himself.) A discussion with him! Oh!
IAN: Have it your own way. I think there’s a much simpler explanation.
16: INT. HOUSE. DOWNSTAIRS HALL
(On one side of the hall, hidden by a wall, stands a ticket booth. A sign proclaims “FESTIVAL of GHANA 1996” but another sign across the window of the
booth states “CANCELLED BY PEKING”. The base of the booth advertises this particular attraction - “FRANKENSTEIN’S HOUSE OF HORRORS” - PRICE $10”.)
17: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM
(The DOCTOR continues to make further adjustments to his machine. IAN walks over.)
IAN: Well, how’s this box of tricks coming along, Doctor?
DOCTOR: Oh, necessarily crude, dear boy. I haven’t time to perf...to perfect anything.
IAN: Oh, when’s it going to be operational, eh?
DOCTOR: You know just as much about that as I do.
IAN: Oh Doctor, we can’t go on like this, can we? We’ve given them the slip once or twice but sooner or later we’re going to have to settle with
them.
DOCTOR: Oh, I quite agree with you. Running away won’t solve our problem. But as soon as we’ve reached the final decision, to stand and fight, they’ll
be no turning back. It’ll either be them...or us. Hmm?
(BARBARA walks in with four drinks.)
BARBARA: Here we are.
DOCTOR: Oh, my dear, very welcome.
IAN: (Almost dropping his.) Woah, thanks.
DOCTOR: Thank you.
BARBARA: (Looking round.) Where’s Vicki?
DOCTOR: (Worried.) But I thought she was with you?
18: INT. DALEK TIME MACHINE. MAIN CHAMBER
FIRST DALEK: We are locked in pursuit course.
SECOND DALEK: Calculate destination of enemy time machine.
(The DALEK looks at a series of three changing numbers below a scanner screen.)
FIRST DALEK: Report.
THIRD DALEK: The enemy is approaching the planet Mechanus.
SECOND DALEK: Contact Skaro. Report our destination to the Dalek Supreme.
FIRST DALEK: I obey.
(The FIRST DALEK glides away. The SECOND and THIRD DALEKS glide towards a doorway leading to a second chamber. A FOURTH DALEK waits by the doorway.)
SECOND DALEK: Is the reproducer repaired?
FOURTH DALEK: We await your orders.
THIRD DALEK: Manufacture will commence at once.
19: INT. DALEK TIME MACHINE. SECOND CHAMBER
(The DALEKS glide into a chamber, one wall of which is dominated by a large upright cylindrical machine.)
SECOND DALEK: Which if the four humans is to be re-produced?
FOURTH DALEK: Their leader - the one they call “Doctor”. Is the re-producer programmed?
THIRD DALEK: All is in readiness. Photo images and relevant data are in the computer. The humanoid will be completed by the time we arrive at our
destination.
FOURTH DALEK: Excellent. Commence operations, then assemble at cell renovator chamber.
SECOND DALEK: We obey!
THIRD DALEK: Of course.
(They glide out of the room. One glides suddenly back and watches as the two halves of the cylindrical machine slide open, revealing a glass doorway within.
It glides out again...and VICKI comes out of hiding from an alcove. She looks through the glass doorway but all is opaque. She walks over to a nearby wall of
machinery which seems to be a transmitter. She switches it on and it crackles into life.)
VICKI: TARDIS, hello. TARDIS? Come in please. Over.
(Static is heard.)
VICKI: Hello, TARDIS. Doctor? Somebody, please help me. Get me out of this. TARDIS! TARDIS!
(There is no response. She walks back over to the glass doorway. A still figure can now be seen within the smoky interior - it seems to be the DOCTOR!.)
20: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM
(The travellers pace the console room , worried by the realisation that they have left VICKI behind.)
DOCTOR: It’s my fault. All my own stupid fault. I shouldn’t have moved the TARDIS. I have should have checked up first to make sure that everybody
was inside. I shall never forgive myself!
IAN: Oh, no Doctor, don’t blame yourself. We’re all equally to blame. I was convinced she was on-board.
BARBARA: Isn’t there anything we can do? Is there no way of going back for Vicki.
DOCTOR: (Angrily.) You don’t think I’d be standing here doing nothing do you, if there were, hmm? We’re helpless...and you of all people
should know that the TARDIS can’t land in the same time and place twice!
IAN: Doctor, shut up! (Quietly.) We’ve never stayed long enough in any one place to repair the time mechanism of the TARDIS. If we did, is there
a chance of going back for Vicki?
DOCTOR: Yes, of course, it’s possible but it might take months, even years.
BARBARA: But Doctor, if we all worked together, if...if Ian and I helped you, surely it’s worth a try?
DOCTOR: Yes, my dear, I know it’s worth a try but you don’t think the Daleks are going to sit back and allow us to tinker do you? They’re right on
our tracks. Their one aim is to destroy.
IAN: (Thinks, then, to himself...) The Dalek time machine! Of course! (To the DOCTOR.) Doctor, I’ve got it. We can’t go back for Vicki
in the TARDIS, but we can in the Daleks own time machine.
DOCTOR: Do you mean...capture their machine?
IAN: Why not?
BARBARA: Well, that would take some doing.
IAN: It’s the only chance we’ve got, otherwise we’ll never see Vicki again.
DOCTOR: If we can only pull it off.
BARBARA: Doctor, we have nothing to lose...and now we have even more reason to stop and fight.
IAN: What do you say, Doctor?
DOCTOR: I say yes, yes, yes! Our next landing will be our battle ground and we shall fight. We shall fight to the death!
21: INT. DALEK TIME MACHINE. SECOND CHAMBER
(VICKI is trying the transmitter again...)
VICKI: TARDIS? Somebody hear me. TARDIS! TARDIS!
22: INT. DALEK TIME MACHINE. MAIN CHAMBER
FIRST DALEK: Report position of enemy machine.
SECOND DALEK: It’s movement through time is ending.
THIRD DALEK: It is approaching the planet Mechanus.
FIRST DALEK: How long before we reach them?
FOURTH DALEK: Er, er, in earth time, er, four minutes.
FIRST DALEK: There is much to do.
(The DALEKS glide into the second chamber.)
23: INT. DALEK TIME MACHINE. SECOND CHAMBER
FIRST DALEK: Is the humanoid robot complete?
THIRD DALEK: The computer is feeding its memory cells with data.
SECOND DALEK: Physical characteristics are completed. Energy cells fully charged.
FOURTH DALEK: Micro-units containing personality and vocal mannerisms are charged.
FIRST DALEK: Prepare to activate.
(A DALEK turns to a console.)
FIRST DALEK: Activate the robot.
(Within the machine the ROBOT DOCTOR, complete with walking stick, moves and pushes open the door. VICKI watches in horror.)
24: EXT. MECHANUS. JUNGLE (NIGHT)
(The destination of the pursued and their pursuers is dark with a thick growth of trees and a misty wet ground.)
25: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM
(The travellers see this image on the scanner.)
IAN: Ah, looks swampy.
DOCTOR: Yes, all to the good, my boy. This sort of terrain is going to make it very difficult for the Daleks. (Laughs.)
IAN: Yes. Well, we won’t have long to explore, Doctor, before the Daleks arrive so lets get moving.
(IAN picks up the DOCTOR’S machine.)
DOCTOR: Yes, you are perfectly correct, perfectly correct. However, it doesn’t matter about the appearances. It’s quite safe to go outside.
IAN: Good.
(The DOCTOR opens the doors and joins the two teachers in looking through the open doorway to the outside.)
BARBARA: Just look at that vegetation.
IAN: Yes. Just as though it were alive.
DOCTOR: Alive! Yes!
26: INT. DALEK TIME MACHINE. SECOND CHAMBER
FIRST DALEK: Success! Paramount success! It is impossible to distinguish from the original.
(A DALEK glides forward.)
FOURTH DALEK: We have landed on the planet Mechanus.
FIRST DALEK: Operate ramp control. Activate robot power source.
(After a pause, the ROBOT DOCTOR jauntily steps out of the machine and stands in front of its creators.)
FIRST DALEK: Your orders are understood? You will infiltrate and kill.
DALEKS: Infiltrate and kill!
(The ROBOT speaks, its voice and inflexions a perfect match of the DOCTOR’S.)
ROBOT DOCTOR: Understand? Of course I understand, my dear fellow. (It gives a wave of its arm.) Don’t fuss so! I am to infiltrate and kill,
infiltrate and kill!
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THE DEATH OF DOCTOR WHO
Dr. Who
WILLIAM HARTNELL
Ian Chesterton
WILLIAM RUSSELL
Barbara Wright
JACQUELINE HILL
Vicki
MAUREEN O’BRIEN
Frankenstein
JOHN MAXIM
Count Dracula
MALCOLM ROGERS
Grey Lady
ROSLYN DE WINTER
Dalek Voices
PETER HAWKINS
DAVID GRAHAM
Daleks
ROBERT JEWELL
KEVIN MANSER
JOHN SCOTT MARTIN
GERALD TAYLOR
Title music by
RON GRAINER
and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Incidental music
composed and
conducted by
DUDLEY SIMPSON
Story Editor
DENNIS SPOONER
Designers
RAYMOND CUSICK
JOHN WOOD
Producer
VERITY LAMBERT
Directed by
RICHARD MARTIN
(c) BBC tv
Transcribed By
JOHN TOMLINSON