'Short Trips': 'Loud and Proud' (1 Part) by Andrew Allen

Mel enrols the Doctor in an anger management class in Pease Pottage. The class is led by Doctor Prana, who claims just one class will cure all those present. She leads the tense group of attendees to engage in an exercise of tantric screaming, each man placing their hand in a bowl of what appears to be water; the combined sound is shocking, and the bangles on Prana’s wrist seem to respond to the noise. When the men collapse afterwards the Doctor chastises Prana for stealing and bottling their emotions, but Prana just insists she is helping her subjects. Prana reveals that she is from a race of empaths called the Kin, and is selling anger as a commodity to other alien races, for use by their soldiers during war. While Mel is appalled to learn that Earth is regarded as a race of bullies, the Doctor is more outraged at Prana weaponising anger just to make money. Hoping to escape, the alien empath splashes Mel with some of the water, causing her to become enraged and attack the Doctor. After using hypnosis to restore Mel to herself, the Time Lord confiscates Prana’s control bangles and uses them to overload the water with his own anger, flooding the market with an overabundance of the emotion to render it worthless. Leaving Prana bankrupted and angry, the Doctor and Mel depart in the TARDIS…

Stephen Critchlow (Narrator)

Release Date:
March 2019

Notes:

*Featuring the Sixth Doctor and Mel

*A Big Finish Audio Production