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|image = | |image = | ||
|series = ''[[Main Range]]'' | |series = ''[[Main Range]]'' | ||
|audio anthology = | |audio anthology = Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories | ||
|range | |range = Main Range | ||
|number in range = 188c | |number in range = 188c | ||
|number = 188c | |number = 188c | ||
|doctor = Sixth Doctor | |doctor = Sixth Doctor | ||
|companions = [[Peri Brown]] | |companions = [[Peri Brown|Peri]] | ||
|enemy = [[ | |enemy = [[Maria Backhouse]] | ||
|setting = [[St Ursula's College]], [[England]], [[September]] [[1939]] | |setting = [[St Ursula's College]], [[England]], [[September]] [[1939]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Una McCormack | ||
|director = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | |director = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | ||
|producer = [[David Richardson]] | |||
|music = [[Wilfredo Acosta]] | |music = [[Wilfredo Acosta]] | ||
|sound = [[Wilfredo Acosta]] | |sound = [[Wilfredo Acosta]] | ||
|epcount = 1 | |||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date = | |release date = 11 July 2014 | ||
|format = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>3rd of 4 stories | |format = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>3rd of 4 stories | ||
|production code = 6Z/AC | |production code = 6Z/AC | ||
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-329-0 | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-329-0 (physical); ISBN 978-1-78575-735-8 (digital) | ||
|prev | |prev = Of Chaos Time The (audio story) | ||
|next | |next = The Curious Incident of the Doctor in the Night-Time (audio story) | ||
}} | |||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the third story in the audio anthology, ''[[Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories]]'', which comprised the one hundred and eighty-eighth release in [[Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Una McCormack]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Nicola Bryant]] as [[Peri Brown]]. | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
The year is [[1939]], and a case of poison pen letters at [[St Ursula's College]] threatens to change the course of the [[World War II|Second World War]]. Fortunately thriller writer | The year is [[1939]], and a case of poison pen letters at [[St Ursula's College]] threatens to change the course of the [[World War II|Second World War]]. Fortunately thriller [[writer]] [[Susan Perry|Miss Sarah Perry]] is on hand to investigate... | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
Tracking [[dark vacuum energy]] fluctuations, [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]] takes [[Peri Brown|Peri]] to [[St Ursula's College]] in [[September]] [[1939]] where she is mistaken by [[Petherbridge|Dr Petherbridge]], the [[principal]], for [[Susan Perry]], a thriller [[writer]] whom she is expecting. Dr Petherbridge tells Peri that anonymous poison pen [[letter]]s have been sent to [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[physicist]] [[Ruth Horwitz|Dr Horwitz]] and, to avoid involving the [[police]] and damaging the college's reputation, asks her to look into it, which the Doctor agrees that they will do. Peri gets the [[racism|racist]] letters from Dr Horwitz whilst the Doctor meets [[economist]] [[Joan Dalton|Dr Dalton]], who escorts him to his room to ensure that no undergraduates get an undeserved reputation for interacting with him. | |||
After [[Maria Backhouse|Dr Backhouse]] advises her to question Dr Dalton about her [[politics]], Peri catches up with the Doctor and she realises that Dr Dalton is a [[communism|communist]] rather than a [[Nazi]] following the announcement of the [[Second World War]] over the [[radio]]. Dr Horwitz tells Peri that somebody tried to [[murder]] as she was working, which coincides with the Doctor's readings becoming stronger, but she is unable to give a satisfactory answer for how she was able to escape. The Doctor and Peri wonder if Dr Dalton, who failed to recruit Dr Horwitz to the communist cause, is responsible and meet with her and Dr Petherbridge in the principal's office. Although Dr Dalton denies the charge, Dr Petherbridge has her [[arrest]]ed and Dr Horwitz says that a mistake has been made. | |||
Dr Horwitz's notes and work are stolen from her room and the Doctor confronts her about the impossibility of her escape from her attacker, leading her to explain that one of the stolen items is a family heirloom, a sketch of which the Doctor recognises as a [[petrification|petrified]] [[eye]], with the power of [[invisibility]] and that she has been studying it in the hopes of replicating its power to win the war. She says that the letters have been coming from Dr Backhouse, a Nazi who has been threatening her relatives in [[Vienna]] and who has apparently left by [[car]]. The Doctor follows the fluctuation readings so that he and [[policeman (An Eye For Murder)|a policeman]] can catch Dr Backhouse before she escapes, but the readings fade and he realises that she is still at St Ursula's. | |||
Peri, Dr Petherbridge and | Peri, Dr Petherbridge and Dr Horwitz realise that Dr Backhouse is using the eye to conceal herself in the building and chase the sound of her footsteps outside. The Doctor arrives and joins them in heading to the [[chapel]] where Dr Backhouse becomes visible. He warns her that the dark vacuum energy is causing her to fall apart, but she refuses to throw the eye away and falls to her [[death]] from a height, smashing the eye and fading away. Although Dr Horwitz's notes have been lost to the [[storm]], she is pleased to receive a [[telegram]] that her family left Vienna for [[Great Britain|Britain]] before war was declared, which was why Dr Backhouse had to resort to [[theft]] rather than [[blackmail]]. Dr Petherbridge asks the Doctor to address the undergraduates, but he defers to Peri and they head to the TARDIS, ostensibly to fetch Peri's notes. | ||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
* [[Sixth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Colin Baker]] | * [[Sixth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[Colin Baker]] | ||
* [[Peri Brown]] - [[Nicola Bryant]] | * [[Peri Brown]] - [[Nicola Bryant]] | ||
* [[Maria Backhouse|Dr | * [[Maria Backhouse|Dr Maria Backhouse]] - [[Jemma Churchill]] | ||
* [[Joan Dalton|Dr | * [[Joan Dalton|Dr Joan Dalton]] - [[Allison McKenzie]] | ||
* [[Petherbridge|Dr | * [[Petherbridge|Dr Petherbridge]] - [[Janet Henfrey]] | ||
* [[Ruth Horwitz|Dr | * [[Ruth Horwitz|Dr Ruth Horwitz]] - [[Jessica Knappett]] | ||
* Policeman - [[Andy Secombe]] | * [[Policeman (An Eye For Murder)|Policeman]] - [[Andy Secombe]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* The Doctor wears a [[London]] drape suit while visiting [[St Ursula's College]]. | * The Doctor wears a [[London]] drape suit while visiting [[St Ursula's College]]. | ||
* Peri describes the Doctor's coat as resembling "an explosion in a paint factory." | * Peri describes the Doctor's coat as resembling "an explosion in a paint factory." | ||
* [[ | * Peri likes [[coffee]]. | ||
* [[ | * [[Ruth Horwitz]] is [[Judaism|Jewish]]. She has been receiving anti-Semitic poison pen letters for two to three months. | ||
* | * [[Joan Dalton]] is an [[economist]] and a [[Communism|communist]]. | ||
* [[Maria Backhouse]] is a [[Nazi]]. | |||
*Dr Petherbridge mistakes the Doctor and Peri for a [[couple]]. | * Nazi [[Germany]] and the [[Soviet Union]] have signed a non-aggression pact. | ||
*The Doctor is a dab hand | * [[Petherbridge|Dr Petherbridge]] mistakes the Doctor and Peri for a [[couple]]. | ||
*The energy readings are [[dark energy | * The Doctor is a "dab hand" with a [[typewriter]]. | ||
* The energy readings are [[dark vacuum energy]] fluctuations. | |||
* [[Adolf Hitler]] and [[Josef Stalin]] are mentioned. | |||
*[[Adolf Hitler]] and [[ | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||