As I mentioned earlier, at this time the Short Trips range were meant to be short audiobooks that someone could listen to in the span of a train trip. But even with those restrictions, this tale comes off as very odd. I'm very puzzled by how the story utilizes Barbara as its POV character, yet has William Russell narrating--I would think Maureen O'Brien would have been the natural choice, even thought Vicki is barely in the story proper. But that just might be my old man personal preference....
But the thing that nags me about this story is...well, it's not much of a story. Writer Niall Boyce is making a point about how life goes on in London after the series starts, and ties it in with the fact that the series debuted on the day President Kennedy was assassinated...but there's no connection to said point and our characters. I felt weirdly disconnected from the whole story, and as a whole it left me...unsatisfied, which is a bit of a surprise given how effective most of the other stories are in this particular box set.
Write this one off as a bit of a misfire, I'm afraid.
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