Asking For a Friend The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield 4.2 The Doctor is having a hard time being president of the universe - a doomed universe at that, maybe some counselling will help…. The structure of this audio is that it’s a series of sessions with the Doctor and therapist intercut with a number of interactions with Benny , flashbacks and such. There is no plot as such, being more of a reveal as to why the Doctor is behaving the way is, and “not the Doctor’ according to Benny. The Doctor is having to use diplomacy, negotiations, and bureaucracy to try and save people, planets and the universe, and its not easy. Gone are the days when’re he could sweep in, set the world to right in a day and swan off again. Now he has to ...