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|image = The Whispering Forest.jpg | |image = The Whispering Forest.jpg | ||
|range = Main Range | |range = Main Range | ||
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|number = 137 | |number = 137 | ||
|doctor = Fifth Doctor | |doctor = Fifth Doctor | ||
|companions = [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]], [[Nyssa]] | |companions = [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]], [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]], [[Nyssa]] | ||
|enemy = [[Mertil | |featuring = [[Mara|The Mara]] | ||
|setting = [[Chodor]], | |enemy = [[Mertil]], [[Shade (The Whispering Forest)|Shades]] | ||
|writer = | |setting = [[Chodor]], [[29th century]] | ||
|director = [[Barnaby Edwards | |writer = Stephen Cole | ||
| | |director = [[Barnaby Edwards]] | ||
|producer = [[David Richardson]] | |||
|music = [[Richard Fox]] & [[Lauren Yason]] | |||
|sound = Richard Fox & Lauren Yason | |||
|cover = [[Iain Robertson]] | |cover = [[Iain Robertson]] | ||
|epcount = 4 | |||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date = | |release date = 13 August 2010 | ||
|format = 2 CDs<br/>Download | |format = 2 CDs<br/>Download | ||
|production code = [[List of production codes#Big Finish production codes|6H/B]] | |production code = [[List of production codes#Big Finish production codes|6H/B]] | ||
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-84435-473-3 | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-84435-473-3 (physical); ISBN 978-1-78575-684-9 (digital) | ||
|prev = Cobwebs (audio story) | |prev = Cobwebs (audio story) | ||
|next = The Cradle of the Snake (audio story) | |next = The Cradle of the Snake (audio story) | ||
}} | |||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the one hundred and thirty-seventh story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Stephen Cole]] and featured [[Peter Davison]] as the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Sarah Sutton]] as [[Nyssa]], [[Janet Fielding]] as [[Tegan Jovanka]] and [[Mark Strickson]] as [[Turlough]]. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the one hundred and thirty-seventh story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Stephen Cole]] and featured [[Peter Davison]] as the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Sarah Sutton]] as [[Nyssa]], [[Janet Fielding]] as [[Tegan Jovanka]] and [[Mark Strickson]] as [[Turlough]]. | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to be | === Part one === | ||
Set to seek out mentions of [[Richter's Syndrome]] so that [[Nyssa]]'s [[cure]] can be tested, [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] lands on [[Chodor]] and [[Fifth Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] go to investigate the cry of a man being taken deeper into the [[forest]]. They are taken captive by [[Seksa]] and taken to [[Purity Bay]], learning on the way about how the [[Taker]]s kidnap those who become frail and that Seksa's ailing father, [[Anulf]], is missing. | |||
[[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] and [[Nyssa]], having fallen behind after leaving the TARDIS, run away from whispers which Nyssa feels being pushed into her mind by Shades. Because of Turlough's red hair, [[Mertil]], Seska's stepmother, believes that he is a Taker and tries to capture him, but he and Nyssa run and are forced to wade and swim across a stinking [[river]]. Mertil's people hit Turlough with a [[stone]] and Nyssa gets his unconscious body to safety. | |||
Impressed by the Doctor's title, Seksa decides to introduce him and Tegan to her [[germ]]-obsessed people as their saviours. The two of them enter the rest centre, the [[guard]]s of which were apparently [[drug]]ged by the Takers, and see advanced [[technology]] on the walls. Mertil finds them before Seksa is ready and orders [[Jestan]] to kill the Doctor by repeatedly shocking him with a [[Cardax defibrillator]]. | |||
=== Part two === | |||
By threatening to cough over the two sedated guards, Tegan gets Jestan to stop and Seska speaks in her and the Doctor's defence when she arrives. The two travellers enter the [[decontamination chamber]] as a show of good faith, but Tegan collapses and they are taken to the rest centre where the Doctor learns that the parts of the [[spaceship]] that the people did not use to build their home are kept at the [[Ghost Place]]. | |||
Turlough and Nyssa come across the remains of a Taker, an [[android]], and use its luminescent orange cap to find their way in a nearby [[cave]] home to other such androids. They run from the Takers when they present [[hypodermic needle]]s and use the broken one to pass through a [[force field]] into a tunnel from which Nyssa temporarily teleports, revealing how the Takers get around. | |||
The Doctor goes to the Ghost Place with Hervey and Jestan, whom Seska wants to keep away from Mertil given their connection. The Ghost Place is said to be home to the Shades, believed to be the unclean dead, and the Doctor realises that the ship is a [[hospital]], indicating that the people of Purity Bay are descended from the [[patient]]s. Jestan breaks Hervey's neck, planning on framing the Doctor to convince the people to [[execution|execute]] him. | |||
=== Part three === | |||
Mertil reveals that she pushed [[Seksa's mother]] from a cliff as part of her plan to become leader of Purity Bay before having [[Antan]] shoot Seksa. She blames the Doctor and Tegan for Seksa's injury and rouses up the people for a lynching, but Nyssa interrupts and presents them with the destroyed Taker in an attempt to earn their trust. When the Takers arrive and carry Tegan away in error, Turlough impersonates a Shade to frighten the people and the Doctor, having knocked out Jestan, uses a device in the rest centre to put them all to [[sleep]]. | |||
The Doctor, Turlough, Nyssa and the injured Seksa head to the caves to find Tegan and Anulf. From the Taker and its brief possession by a Shade, the Doctor deduces that the Shades are the echoes of forty-four patients [[euthanasia|euthanised]] due to them suffering from Richter's Syndrome, which the Takers were unable to treat. Mertil and the crowd catch up with them and intend to kill them whilst, in the Takers' sterile environment where their patients live, Tegan tries to convince Anulf to leave with her and learns that his wife is still alive. The Doctor, Turlough, Nyssa and Seksa pass through the force field. | |||
=== Part four === | |||
Jestan is killed when he tries to use the defibrillator to get through the force field and most of the crowd abandons Mertil. The Takers work to cure Seksa, who has been [[poison]]ed by carbolic acid entering her wound, and explain when the Doctor claims that they are a [[rescue party]] that the ship crashed when a staff doctor roused patients to stop the policy of euthanasia and the engines were damaged, turning many into Shades. The staff doctor became the leader of Purity Bay and banned any mention of the Takers, but they continued to care for the people in secret. | |||
Mertil enters the cave with Antan and thirteen followers using the damaged Taker. The Shades attack by inhabiting the Takers, driven insane by their time without bodies, and the Doctor decides to cut the power to disable them whilst trying to ensure that the [[life support system]]s in the intensive care ward remain operational. Mertil is killed when she refuses to hide from the Shades, Anulf is killed defending Seska and Antan helps the Doctor and Turlough shut down the Takers and discharge it into them, causing them to melt and giving the Shades peace at last. | |||
The Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa say goodbye to Seska, who no longer wishes to be the leader of Purity Bay, and return to the TARDIS. Tegan has not been sleeping well recently and is suffering from a [[headache]] which the Doctor correctly suspects is due to the [[Mara]]; the Mara takes her over and tells the Doctor that it still lives inside her mind and he never managed to get rid of it. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] - [[Mark Strickson]] | * [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] - [[Mark Strickson]] | ||
* [[Seksa]] - [[Hayley Atwell]] | * [[Seksa]] - [[Hayley Atwell]] | ||
* [[Mertil]]/[[Woman (The Whispering Forest)|Woman]] - [[Sue Wallace]] | * [[Mertil]] / [[Woman (The Whispering Forest)|Woman]] - [[Sue Wallace]] | ||
* [[Jestan]]/[[Man (The Whispering Forest)|Man]]/[[Taker]] - [[Paul Shelley]] | * [[Jestan]] / [[Man (The Whispering Forest)|Man]] / [[Taker]] - [[Paul Shelley]] | ||
* [[Hervey]]/[[Taker]]/[[Taker|Demi-Taker]] - [[Harry Melling]] | * [[Hervey]] / [[Taker]] / [[Taker|Demi-Taker]] - [[Harry Melling]] | ||
* [[Anulf]]/[[Taker]] - [[Lennox Greaves]] | * [[Anulf]] / [[Taker]] - [[Lennox Greaves]] | ||
* [[Antan]]/[[Taker]] - [[Aneurin Barnard]] | * [[Antan]] / [[Taker]] - [[Aneurin Barnard]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* During the [[27th century]], the [[Earth Empire]] was engaged in conflicts across [[Dravidian]] space. | * During the [[27th century]], the [[Earth Empire]] was engaged in conflicts across [[Dravidian]] space. | ||
* The planet [[Chodor]], on the eastern edge of [[Aldebaran]] has at least one moon, but no strategic or mineral importance. | * The planet [[Chodor]], on the eastern edge of [[Aldebaran]] has at least one moon, but no strategic or mineral importance. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This audio drama was recorded on [[30 December (production)|30 December]] 2009 and [[5 January (production)|5 January]] 2010 at [[The Moat Studios]]. | * This audio drama was recorded on [[30 December (production)|30 December]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]] and [[5 January (production)|5 January]] [[2010 (releases)|2010]] at [[The Moat Studios]]. | ||
* It was first released on [[13 August (releases)|13 August]] [[2010 (releases)|2010]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100330173828/http://www.bigfinish.com:80/whatsnew.aspx LATEST AND UPCOMING RELEASES - Archived on 21-08-2010]</ref> | * It was first released on [[13 August (releases)|13 August]] [[2010 (releases)|2010]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100330173828/http://www.bigfinish.com:80/whatsnew.aspx LATEST AND UPCOMING RELEASES - Archived on 21-08-2010]</ref> | ||
* The story was broadcast on | * The story was broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4 Extra]] between [[20 March (releases)|20]] and [[23 May (releases)|23]]-[[25 May (releases)|25 May]] [[2011 (releases)|2011]], forming a radio season with ''[[Cobwebs (audio story)|Cobwebs]]'' and ''[[The Cradle of the Snake (audio story)|The Cradle of the Snake]]''. | ||
* This story shares similarities to the television story ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]'', with a lost colony based on the remnants of a [[spacecraft]] scenario. | * This story shares similarities to the television story ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]'', with a lost colony based on the remnants of a [[spacecraft]] scenario. | ||
* This story is set between [[Enlightenment (TV story)| | * This story is set between ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]] and [[The King's Demons (TV story)|The King's Demons]].'' | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||