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Just days after being announced as the next showrunner of Doctor Who, Steven Moffat’s final story of the first Russell T Davies era is broadcast. In a darkened empty library, the story introduces us to River Song, a mysterious adventurer who might just be telling us exactly what is going to happen to the Doctor over the next six series. But more than that, she might be telling us what Moffat himself thinks about men, women, writing, fear, and the nature of stories.

Welcome to the dying days of Doctor Who. Witness the death defying feats of writer Stephen Wyatt and new Script Editor Andrew Cartmel as they walk the high wire without a safety net, perform spectacular acts of sympathetic magic and - before your very eyes! - lay to rest all the malign spirits of 1980s Doctor Who one by one by one.

No other story has had more requests to consider it in its proper historical context, but perhaps equally important is how that context affects our relationship with the story today.