A Storm of Angels (audio story)

A Storm of Angels
Doctor:	The Doctor
Companion(s):	Susan
Main enemy:	The Angels
Main setting:	The Golden Hind and Nonesuch Palace, 1588
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Marc Platt
Director:	John Ainsworth
Producer:	John Ainsworth and Jason Haigh-Ellery
Music:	Andy Hardwick
Sound:	Andy Hardwick
Cover by:	Paul Vyse
Release details
Number of parts:	4
Release number:	7
Release date:	22 January 2005
Format:	2 CDs Download
Production code:	BFPDWUNCD07
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-093-3
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A Storm of Angels was the seventh Doctor Who Unbound audio story produced by Big Finish Productions, it was also a sequel to the first story in the Unbound range Auld Mortality. Geoffrey Bayldon reprised the role of an alternative First Doctor as did Carole Ann Ford as Susan. This story was double the length of the first story featuring this Doctor being four parts over 2 CDs compared to Auld Mortality's single part story.

Publisher's summary

What if... the Doctor really had changed History, even just the tiniest bit?

1480: Leonardo da Vinci visits the stars.

1508: Vasco da Gama sets foot on Mars.

1585: Francis Drake begins charting the Asteroid belt.

1588: Earth is destroyed by a storm of angels.

The Doctor was really enjoying his freedom. But now there's a Temporal Agent on his tail. Gloriana and the President of Gallifrey are not amused. And Susan's none too well either.

Possibilities, like the Doctor, have a habit of running away with themselves. But who cares, when the jewels are so dazzling...

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Geoffrey Bayldon
• Susan - Carole Ann Ford
• Sir Francis Drake - Cameron Stewart
• Doctor John Dee - Ivor Danvers
• Zeuro - Ian Hallard
• Anthony Fettiplace - Nicholas Deal
• Mr Raju - Shiv Grewal
• Queen Elizabeth - Kate Brown
• Shewstone / Bosun - Ian Brooker

References

• The Doctor made a hearing aid for Ludwig van Beethoven. The real Susan reminds him of this.
• When the TARDIS materialises on the Golden Hind, the chameleon circuit disguises it as a barrel. On another occasion, the TARDIS took the form of a Morris Oxford.
• On their travels, the Doctor and Susan encounter Thaleks and Elvis Presley.

Notes

• This audio drama was recorded on 31 May and 1 June 2004 at the Moat Studios.
• This story was released as a two-disc set. It is now currently available as a download only.
• This story features Geoffrey Bayldon's final portrayal as the Doctor.
• This is a sequel to Auld Mortality.
• At the beginning of the story, during the Doctor's travels, he encounters a creature that says "Resistance will be crushed". While the creature is never identified in any way, its voice resembles that of a CyberTelosian of N-Space, implying that the creature may be a Cyberman.

Continuity

• In N-Space, the Sixth Doctor visited Elizabeth I's court in the company of Evelyn Smythe. (AUDIO: Thicker Than Water) The Eighth Doctor also did so in the company of Samson and Gemma Griffin. (AUDIO: Terror Firma) Furthermore, the War, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, in the company of Clara Oswald encountered her in 1562, during which she married with the Tenth Doctor. (TV: The Day of the Doctor) Later in her timeline, but earlier in the Tenth Doctor's, he and Martha Jones briefly encountered her in 1599. (TV: The Shakespeare Code)
• The Doctor and Susan travelled with Leonardo da Vinci. The Doctor took Leonardo to visit the Ore, a race who had ships which travelled by astrodynamic principles derived from the harmonies of the Spheres. This experience allowed Leonardo to master the power of flight, altering history so that humanity had developed spaceflight by the 16th century. (PROSE: The Innocents)
• The Doctor saved the Princes in the Tower. (AUDIO: The Kingmaker)
• The Doctor warned the Aztecs of Hernando Cortez's approach. While in Mexico, he was mistaken for their reincarnated High Priestess. (TV: The Aztecs)
• The Doctor has encountered the Thaleks. (AUDIO: Auld Mortality; PROSE: The Innocents)
• In N-Space, the First Doctor and Dodo Chaplet travelled aboard another version of the Golden Hind which was not a space galleon. (AUDIO: Maker of Demons)

External links

• Official A Storm of Angels page at bigfinish.com
• A Storm of Angels at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for A Storm of Angels at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide