FROM THE PRODUCER: In 1999, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sophie Aldred took me to see her friend Sylvester McCoy in a production of Beckett monologues. With a small audience on the outskirts of Edinburgh, in a canteen with very little set, McCoy's performance dragged you into the bleak world of Beckett - and left you in no doubt that this master clown also had the ability to convey a tragic darkness. When I met him later we got to talking about Doctor Who, and Sophie suggested we bring it back to the BBC. I thought that travelling in time and space could make ideal radio, and McCoy's darkness would provide the emotional heart, so we plotted to make one last bow for the Doctor. In 2000, we recorded a pilot. The bits with Stephen Fry, and those with Leonard Fenton and Sophie Aldred, were recorded separately in a small booth in BBC Broadcasting House, with the rest of the episode being recorded at Soundhouse Studios in Shepherds Bush. In late 2001 we created the remaining four episodes; there then followd a marathon of editing in Jon Taylor's attic, frequently ending at around 2am, his children crying because they never saw their dad! Although the webcast (in weekly ten minute instalments) was more popular than we could have hoped, it gives me great pleasure to present the story as it was meant to be experience, in wacky super-stereo - sound effects, music and all. Long live the Doctor! Dan Freedman.