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Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum - a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realises that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose soon have more on their minds than sculpture.

While the Doctor searches for a missing boy, Rose befriends a girl who claims to know the future - a girl whose predictions are surprisingly accurate. But then the Doctor stumbles on the hideous truth behind the statue of Rose - and Rose herself learns that you have to be very careful what you wish for.

COMMENT

Jacqueline Rayner's THE STONE ROSE is not only a perfect story for young viewers to be introduced to DOCTOR WHO audiobooks with but for David Tennant to demonstrate his considerable talents with.

Tennant is a one-man repertory company who effortlessly migrates disparate characters whether a single-mother from a South London Council Estate, to an aged citizen of the Roman Empire, or even an all-encompassing Goddess.

And, as it is DOCTOR WHO, there is no where else can you hear such diverse topics are Kate Moss, Roman Pigeon 'pooh', Interflora and a

As it is DOCTOR WHO, the ordinary & humdrum is jostled by the extraordinary to deliver a fantastical story of time travel and love & loss. And where else can you hear about Roman pigeon 'pooh, supermodel Kate Moss and Interflora mentioned alongside a philosophical rationalisation of a time paradox.

A creative storytelling maze with the reassuring Doctor and Rose guiding us through, asking the questions we want to ask and offering a reassuring hand as danger looms.

On a family outing to the British museum, Mickey Smith discovers a statue of Rose, even down the earrings. Travelling in the TARDIS to Rome AD120, the mystery takes a twist of fate when they stumble across an attempted mugging.

As the threads unravel, the time travellers meet a father in search of his son, a surly sculptor who hides a dark and unspeakable secret, and a girl who knows the future. Only the Doctor is capable of tying them together at a break-neck and dazzling pace.

THE STONE ROSE is an archetypal DOCTOR WHO story with a tour-de-force performance from David Tennant, and one that the incomparable children's storyteller, Kenneth Williams, would applaud.