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Survival

The Survival Remixes by Dominic Glynn

Survival Remixes by Dominic Glynn.

Dominic Glynn’s score for “Survival” lives on a well-worn cat climber at the back of my mind, and has done since the summer of 1990, when the final McCoy serials made it across the pond. It reaches out, claws extended, and swats me regularly, often when I least expect it.

Glynn’s just-released remixes bring back the end of an era, but with a new wildness. I particularly like “The Dead Valley”, which is a long way from the planet of the Cheetah People, but of a piece with that dying world.

The theme to the Indefinable Magic podcast is a welcome bonus, and I commend the podcast—one of Toby Hadoke’s Time Travels—to you, if you aren’t already a listener.

If I’ve intrigued you, give it a listen here.

Last words…for a while.

The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred) in “Survival”.

“There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, the sea’s asleep and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there is danger and somewhere there’s injustice and somewhere else the tea is getting cold…

“Come on Ace, we’ve got work to do.”

My friend Andrew Cartmel wrote those words twenty-six years ago, and they closed out what was—for fifteen years—the final season of Doctor Who on 6 December 1989.