Gifted (audio story)

Gifted
Main character(s):	Ram, April
Main enemy:	Mab
Main setting:	Shoreditch, 2016
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Roy Gill
Director:	Scott Handcock
Producer:	Scott Handcock
Music:	Blair Mowat
Sound:	Luke Pietnik
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	1
Part of:	Class: The Audio Adventures: Volume One
Release date:	21 August 2018
Format:	1 CD Download 1st of 3 stories
Production code:	BFPCLASS01
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78703-638-3 (physical); ISBN 978-1-78703-639-0 (digital)
Class: The Audio Adventures
Next →	Life Experience

Gifted was the first audio story in the anthology Class: The Audio Adventures: Volume One. It featured Sophie Hopkins as April MacLean and Fady Elsayed as Ram Singh.

Publisher's summary

When a talent scout arrives in Shoreditch, Ram sees an opportunity to further his goals, whilst April strikes up a friendship with new boy, Thomas Laneford. Their choices draw all three to Carterhaugh House – but who is the mysterious Mab that waits for them there...?

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Ram - Fady Elsayed
• April - Sophie Hopkins
• Tom - Rhys Isaac-Jones
• Mab - Deirdre Mullins

References

• Charlie was not interested in joining April’s English study group.
• Thomas Laneford gives April the book Child Ballads by Francis James Child. Ballad 39 in the book is called Tam Lin.
• Thomas recites parts of The Faerie Queene by Spencer.
• April thinks that Thomas takes literature with Mr Carlisle.
• Ram memorises the names J. Peak, T. Laneford and D. James from the Coal Hill School Roll of Honours Board.
• April's mother collects knitting patterns.
• Liam and Rhys are two other strong football players on Ram and Thomas's team.
• Ram is called to see the Head but leaves before she calls him.
• Ram is against asking for Miss Quill's help.
• Plover birds accompany crocodiles and clean their teeth.
• Mab tries to get inside April's head by reminding her about her father.
• Ram recalls a saying of his gran.
• Ram says his prosthetic leg doesn't react fast enough and this it give him 'the grace of a drunk hyena.

Notes

• retelling of Diana Wynne Jones' Fire & Hemlock

Continuity

• Mab mentions Ram's prosthetic leg given to him by the Twelfth Doctor. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)
• Mab knows that April shares a heart with Corakinus. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)
• Ram mentions meeting Shadow Kin (TV: For Tonight We Might Die), dragons (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo) and grief monsters. (TV: Nightvisiting)
• April plays the fiddle, preferring folk (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo) and roots. She even composes music herself.

External links

• Official Gifted page at bigfinish.com