Swan Song (audio story)

Swan Song
Main character(s):	Jago, Litefoot, Leela
Main enemy:	The New Regency Theatre
Main setting:	The New Regency Theatre, London, the 1890s and 2011
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	John Dorney
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Alex Mallinson
Release details
Release number:	3.3
Release date:	June 2011
Format:	1 CD
Production code:	BFPJLCD03
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-561-7
Jago & Litefoot
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Swan Song is the eleventh Big Finish Productions audio drama in the Jago & Litefoot series and the third episode of series 3.

Publisher's summary

The New Regency Theatre is haunted and Jago, Litefoot and Leela witness the spirit of someone in a silver wheelchair floating over the stalls. This is the story of Alice — a young woman who had Swan Lake so cruelly taken from her...

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Henry Gordon Jago - Christopher Benjamin
• George Litefoot - Trevor Baxter
• Leela - Louise Jameson
• Alice - Abigail Hollick
• Dan Hawkins - Hywel Morgan
• Steven - Andrew Westfield
• Payne - Philip Bretherton

References

• Leela states that ghosts are a primitive belief.
• There were numerous productions of Hamlet at the New Regency Theatre, including one starring Sarah Bernhardt.
• At 11:39am on 22 May 1988, the eight-year-old Alice was paralysed from the waist down when a Range Rover crashed into her parents' car. Her parents were killed in the accident.
• Swan Lake was first performed at the New Regency Theatre some time after Jago's death. It was a huge success, selling out the theatre for months.
• The New Regency Theatre was destroyed in the Blitz at 8:47 p.m. on 12 October 1940, by which time Jago was long dead.

Story notes

• This is the first Jago & Litefoot audio drama in which Ellie Higson (Lisa Bowerman) does not appear as well as the only one to feature scenes based in the present day.

Continuity

• Jago, Litefoot and Leela are investigating a time break in the New Regency Theatre. (AUDIO: The Man at the End of the Garden)
• Leela recalls Jago and Litefoot telling her about Cockney rhyming slang. (AUDIO: Dead Men's Tales)
• Professor Litefoot refers to the events which brought himself and Jago together (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang) and the schemes of Madame Deuteronomy. (AUDIO: The Theatre of Dreams)
• Alice, Dan and Steven's benefactor is Elliot Payne. (AUDIO: Dead Men's Tales)
• Jago prefers to Eleanor Naismith's book coming to life. (AUDIO: The Man at the End of the Garden)
• Leela mentions that Johnny Skipton was transported from 1958 to the 1890s. (AUDIO: Dead Men's Tales)
• The Time Eaters showed Payne how to travel back in time to 2011. (AUDIO: Chronoclasm)

External links

• Official Swan Song - Series Three Box Set page at bigfinish.com
• Swan Song at the Doctor Who Reference Guide