Jago in Love (audio story)

Jago in Love
Main character(s):	Jago, Litefoot, Leela
Featuring:	Ellie Higson, Quick, Claudius Dark
Main enemy:	Kempston, Hardwick
Main setting:	London and Brighton, the 1890s
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Nigel Fairs
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Alex Mallinson
Release details
Release number:	4.1
Release date:	March 2012
Format:	1 CD
Production code:	BFPJLCD04
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-562-4
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Jago in Love is the thirteenth Big Finish Productions audio drama in the Jago & Litefoot series and the first episode of series 4.

Publisher's summary

Escaping the shadowy presence of the mysterious Professor Claudius Dark, Jago, Litefoot and Leela take a holiday in Brighton. There, Jago meets and falls for music hall singer Abigail Woburn, a relationship that threatens to split the infernal investigators apart, as dark forces gather on the beach...

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Henry Gordon Jago - Christopher Benjamin
• George Litefoot - Trevor Baxter
• Leela - Louise Jameson
• Ellie Higson - Lisa Bowerman
• Sergeant Quick - Conrad Asquith
• Abigail Woburn - Elizabeth Counsell
• George Nevil - Matt Addis
• Mr Kempston - Christopher Beeny
• Mr Hardwick - Mike Grady
• Professor Claudius Dark - Colin Baker

References

• Leela tells Jago and Litefoot that she is "obliged" to stay in the 1890s.
• Jago first met Gypsy Nancy Lee while he was the proprietor of the Palace Theatre in the 1880s. He attempted to engage her for a season in the theatre but she preferred to stay in Brighton.
• Litefoot tells Leela that Queen Victoria apparently hated staying in the Royal Pavilion in Brighton as she felt exposed to the public gaze.
• Abigail Woburn wears a "theatrical" wig.
• Jago refers to the serialised adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson by Arthur Conan Doyle featured in The Strand magazine.
• Both George Nevil and his fiancée Mary Elizabeth Reilly were killed in a freak snowstorm in Brighton on 14 August 1887.

Story notes

• The first scene is a reprise of the final scene of the audio story Chronoclasm.
• The music hall song "Poor Little Dolly" was originally featured in the Sapphire & Steel audio drama Water Like a Stone, likewise written by Nigel Fairs.

Continuity

• Leela tells Jago and Litefoot that the Doctor spoke of holidaying in Brighton. (TV: Horror of Fang Rock) He and Romana were more successful in their attempt to reach Brighton but arrived during the winter rather than the summer. (TV: The Leisure Hive) During his fifth incarnation, he attempted to travel to Brighton in 1880 but instead arrived in Hove in 2008. (AUDIO: Cuddlesome) The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe would later visit Brighton in 1936. (AUDIO: Pier Pressure)
• Litefoot mentions that his house is still in a state of disarray. (AUDIO: Chronoclasm)
• Jago told Abigail that Leela has slaughtered "monstrous dragons and Chinamen." (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
• It was later revealed that both the Sandman and Abigail were created by Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick from soil obtained from Bedfordshire. (AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers)

External links

• Official Jago in Love - Series Four Box Set page at bigfinish.com