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|image = The Ravenclliff Witch (audio story).jpg | |image = The Ravenclliff Witch (audio story).jpg | ||
|range = The Fourth Doctor Adventures | |range = The Fourth Doctor Adventures | ||
|audio anthology = | |audio anthology = Solo (audio anthology) | ||
|series in range = Series 11 (4DA) | |series in range = Series 11 (4DA) | ||
|number in series = 2 | |number in series = 2 | ||
|number = 11.2 | |number = 11.2 | ||
|doctor = Fourth Doctor | |doctor = Fourth Doctor | ||
|companions = [[Margaret Hopwood|Margaret]] | |companions = | ||
|enemy = [[ | |featuring = [[Margaret Hopwood|Margaret]] | ||
|setting = [[Ravencliff]], [[3 November]], [[ | |enemy = [[Gordon Miles]] | ||
|writer = | |setting = [[Ravencliff]], [[Kent]], [[3 November|3]]-[[4 November]], [[1970s]] | ||
|writer = David Llewellyn | |||
|director = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | |director = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | ||
|producer = [[David Richardson]] | |producer = [[David Richardson]] | ||
|music = [[Jamie Robertson]] | |music = [[Jamie Robertson]] | ||
|sound = | |sound = [[Toby Hrycek-Robinson]] | ||
|cover = [[Ryan Aplin]] | |cover = [[Ryan Aplin]] | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date = | |release date = 16 March 2022 | ||
|format = 2 CDs<br/>Download | |format = 2 CDs<br/>Download | ||
|production code = BFPTOMCD081 | |production code = BFPTOMCD081 | ||
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|next = The Dreams of Avarice (audio story) | |next = The Dreams of Avarice (audio story) | ||
|soundcloudtrailer = | |soundcloudtrailer = | ||
|epcount=4 | |epcount = 4 | ||
}} | |||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second story of the [[Series 11 (4DA)|eleventh series]] of ''[[The Fourth Doctor Adventures]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[David Llewellyn]] and featured [[Tom Baker]] as the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Nerys Hughes]] as [[Margaret Hopwood]]. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second story of the [[Series 11 (4DA)|eleventh series]] of ''[[The Fourth Doctor Adventures]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[David Llewellyn]] and featured [[Tom Baker]] as the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Nerys Hughes]] as [[Margaret Hopwood]]. | ||
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At [[Ravencliff Power Station]], [[Vic Harris]] records himself as he goes to deal with a minor leakage. He replays the [[tape]] when he hears a strange noise and, when he sees a light and starts hearing whispers, he goes to investigate and sees something impossible. He screams. | At [[Ravencliff Power Station]], [[Vic Harris]] records himself as he goes to deal with a minor leakage. He replays the [[tape]] when he hears a strange noise and, when he sees a light and starts hearing whispers, he goes to investigate and sees something impossible. He screams. | ||
[[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]]' instruments give no indication of where it has landed or what the environment like, so [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]] exits and finds that he is near a [[coast]] on [[Earth]]. He goes to a nearby house but hurries back to the TARDIS when he hears it start to dematerialise, keeping it from leaving him behind. | [[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]]' instruments give no indication of where it has landed or what the environment is like, so [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]] exits and finds that he is near a [[coast]] on [[Earth]]. He goes to a nearby house but hurries back to the TARDIS when he hears it start to dematerialise, keeping it from leaving him behind. | ||
On the [[beach]], [[lighthouse keeper]] [[Silas Keynes]] and his [[dog]], [[Buster (The Ravencliff Witch)|Buster]], find a family of dead [[dolphin]]s. [[Margaret Hopwood]], who is looking for [[driftwood]] for a new [[sculpture]], sees them and notes that sea life has been washing up dead since the power station opened. She heads home and finds Silas' daughter [[Amanda Keynes|Amanda]] waiting for her and again refuses to sell her house to [[Gordon Miles]] and leave [[Ravencliff]] despite the increased offer. | On the [[beach]], [[lighthouse keeper]] [[Silas Keynes]] and his [[dog]], [[Buster (The Ravencliff Witch)|Buster]], find a family of dead [[dolphin]]s. [[Margaret Hopwood]], who is looking for [[driftwood]] for a new [[sculpture]], sees them and notes that sea life has been washing up dead since the power station opened. She heads home and finds Silas' daughter [[Amanda Keynes|Amanda]] waiting for her and again refuses to sell her house to [[Gordon Miles]] and leave [[Ravencliff]] despite the increased offer. | ||
[[Celia Banks|Dr Celia Banks]] and [[John Fairweather]] inform Miles of Vic Harris' disappearance and present his tape, but Miles is loath to contact the [[police]] despite [[Michael Harper]] from security vanishing earlier that month. In both cases, [[shadow]]s have been etched into the walls. Later, Miles has Amanda look over the quarterly reports despite the fact her working day was coming to an end and her colleague, [[Mavis | [[Celia Banks|Dr Celia Banks]] and [[John Fairweather]] inform Miles of Vic Harris' disappearance and present his tape, but Miles is loath to contact the [[police]] despite [[Michael Harper]] from security vanishing earlier that month. In both cases, [[shadow]]s have been etched into the walls. Later, Miles has Amanda look over the quarterly reports despite the fact her working day was coming to an end and her colleague, [[Mavis Barnes]], is killed by the same entity that killed Harris. | ||
The Doctor meets Margaret and learns of the power station, the beached dolphins and the [[Ravencliff witch]], whom she saw two days before learning of [[Margaret Hopwood's father|her father]]'s death at [[Battle of Passchendaele|Passchendaele]]. They investigate a light in the water by [[boat]] and the Doctor discovers, using [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|his sonic screwdriver]], that there is a void in [[spacetime]] below them. A [[whirlpool]] forms and the boat capsizes. | The Doctor meets Margaret and learns of the power station, the beached dolphins and the [[Ravencliff witch]], whom she saw two days before learning of [[Margaret Hopwood's father|her father]]'s death at [[Battle of Passchendaele|Passchendaele]]. They investigate a light in the water by [[boat]] and the Doctor discovers, using [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|his sonic screwdriver]], that there is a void in [[spacetime]] below them. A [[whirlpool]] forms and the boat capsizes. | ||
=== Part two === | === Part two === | ||
'' | The Doctor sends out an [[SOS]] with his screwdriver and gets the attention of Silas, who comes to his and Margaret's rescue and takes them to the [[lighthouse]]. Amanda arrives and tells them that Mavis somehow vanished in a dead end [[corridor]] and left her [[silhouette]] on the paintwork, a sign of a blast of [[radiation]]. The Doctor believes that Mavis's death, the whirlpool and the witch, whom Amanda saw before [[Silas Keynes' wife|her mother]]'s death when she was a girl, are connected. | ||
As Amanda does not believe that Miles will listen to anybody, she goes to see Fairweather in the morning whilst the Doctor, pretending to work for the [[British government|government]], sees Banks. Miles discovers the ruse after a call with [[Graham (The Ravencliff Witch)|Sir Graham]], however, and has the Doctor escorted out. After speaking with Fairweather, Amanda goes with him in search of Banks, but the witch kills Fairweather. | |||
Margaret and Silas research the witch and find that sightings date back to [[10th century|906 AD]], when a [[Edwin (The Ravencliff Witch)|Brother Edwin]] saw a [[shooting star]] land in the sea nearby. Since then, she has appeared shortly before people die. The house is surrounded by animals. The Doctor and Banks, who came to find out what he knew about the attacks given that he hinted to her that he knew about the shadows, see the animals heading to the house. Margaret and Silas are trapped inside with [[fox]]es. | |||
=== Part three === | === Part three === | ||
''to be | Amplifying the sonic screwdriver using a [[concrete sound mirror]], the Doctor gets rid of the animals. He believes that [[novium]], the station's power source, is responsible for the creatures' behaviour, but Banks disagrees and explains that [[Ministry of Defence|MoD]] divers found about 40kg of it at the site of the underwater void. Margaret connects the novium to the shooting star in 906 AD. | ||
Whilst Margaret and Silas go to the lighthouse in the hopes of being safer from the witch, the Doctor and Banks get into the desalination plant using the sonic screwdriver and head to the reactor via the coolant tunnels to acquire some of the novium. Protected by a [[displacement field generator]], the Doctor takes some novium and determines that the shards once formed a [[timeship]] called an [[Eon Cube]]. | |||
Amanda tells Miles that Fairweather was killed and that she saw the witch, but he is [[paranoia|paranoid]] and does not believe her. She refuses to take Miles down to see Fairweather's shadow due to her fear of the witch and passes out. When [[Tony (The Ravencliff Witch)|Tony]] informs Miles that the Doctor and Banks have been in the station, he orders the coolant tunnels to be flushed out. The Doctor and Banks try to escape, but Miles has had the service hatches bolted and the Doctor does not have the time to unscrew each and every screw. | |||
The witch appears to Margaret and Silas and they flee, but she attacks Silas and he falls from the lighthouse. Although she cannot fully make it out, Margaret is able to tell that the witch is whispering about the power station. | |||
=== Part four === | === Part four === | ||
''to be | Amanda saves the Doctor and Banks and they return to the lighthouse where they learn from Margaret of Silas's death. The Doctor recalibrates the lighthouse's [[radio]] to receive transtemporal signals and, using it, the witch warns them that nowhere on Earth is safe from the power station's imminent explosion; the Eon Cube's [[dimensional drive]] contains a [[singularity]], which will be unleashed if the novium fragments decay. | ||
Determining that the only way to stop the disaster is to reassemble the cube and send it back whence it came, the Doctor, Margaret, Banks and Amanda head to the station. The Doctor and Banks collect the eleven fragments and they recombine, but they find that there is a hole for an activation key which they must find to prevent the Eon Cube from destroying itself. Margaret realises that she found the key on the beach and used it in [[Nisyros (sculpture)|a sculpture]] she made shortly after [[World War II]]. The key, being connected to the decaying shards of novium, was what attracted the animals to the house. Whilst the Doctor and Margaret recover it, Banks goes to Miles' office for the key codes for the reactor. | |||
Banks finds the key codes and Miles draws a [[gun]] on her, having been driven mad by paranoia and the witch. The witch appears, causing the frightened Miles to fall into the reactor before he can kill Banks. The Doctor returns with Margaret in the TARDIS and shuts down the reactor and assembles the Eon Cube, which summons the remaining [[fuel rod]]s. Banks inserts the key and is sent back in time to the cube's arrival on Earth, becoming the Ravencliff witch whilst the Doctor, Margaret and Amanda get to safety in the TARDIS. The Doctor says his farewells and departs, telling them to remain vigilant and to watch the shores. Amanda decides that she will take over from her father as lighthouse keeper. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Gordon Miles]] - [[Richard Earl]] | * [[Gordon Miles]] - [[Richard Earl]] | ||
* [[Silas Keynes]] - [[Trevor Cooper]] | * [[Silas Keynes]] - [[Trevor Cooper]] | ||
* [[John Fairweather]] - [[Nicholas Briggs]] | * [[John Fairweather]] / [[Shipping Forecast Announcer]] (uncredited) - [[Nicholas Briggs]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* The Doctor considers going to the [[Moon of Celebrasis IX]] or the [[Palazzo Medici]] during the reign of [[Cosimo I]]. | * The Doctor considers going to the [[Moon of Celebrasis IX]] or the [[Palazzo Medici]] during the reign of [[Cosimo I]]. | ||
* Upon arriving on Earth, the Doctor smells 78% [[nitrogen]], 21% [[oxygen]], a smattering of [[argon]] and a pinch of [[carbon dioxide]]. | * Upon arriving on Earth, the Doctor smells 78% [[nitrogen]], 21% [[oxygen]], a smattering of [[argon]] and a pinch of [[carbon dioxide]]. | ||
* [[Buster (The Ravencliff Witch)|Buster]] is a [[dog]]. | * [[Buster (The Ravencliff Witch)|Buster]] is a [[dog]]. He is named after [[Buster Crabbe]] and not [[Buster Keaton]]. | ||
* [[Michael Harper]] worked in security. | * [[Michael Harper]] worked in security. | ||
* The power station uses [[novium]]. | * The power station uses [[novium]]. | ||
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* Margaret mentions [[Medusa]], [[Grendel]]'s [[Grendel's mother|mother]] and [[Kali]]. | * Margaret mentions [[Medusa]], [[Grendel]]'s [[Grendel's mother|mother]] and [[Kali]]. | ||
* Miles offers to take Amanda to a new [[bistro]] in [[Folkestone]]. | * Miles offers to take Amanda to a new [[bistro]] in [[Folkestone]]. | ||
* Miles forgets [[Mavis | * Miles forgets [[Mavis Barnes]]'s name. | ||
* Margaret cannot [[swimming|swim]]. | * Margaret cannot [[swimming|swim]]. | ||
* Amanda has two [[sugar]]s in her [[tea]]. | * Amanda has two [[sugar]]s in her [[tea]]. | ||
* The Doctor speaks [[dog (language)|Dog]], but never mastered the language of [[bloodhound]]s. | |||
* The staff of the power station have to sign the [[Official Secrets Act]]. | |||
* [[Silas Keynes' uncle|Silas's uncle]] was [[lighthouse keeper]] before him. | |||
* [[Silas Keynes' wife|Silas' wife]] is deceased. [[Silas Keynes' sister-in-law|Her sister]] lived in [[Ashford]] and, on her way to visit her, she died in a car crash on [[Canterbury Road]]. | |||
* When an [[atom bomb]] explodes, it leaves the [[shadow]]s of those blasted to [[atom]]s etched into stonework. | |||
* Ravencliff is in [[Kent]]. | |||
* [[Celia Banks]] is the [[chief science officer]]. | |||
* [[John Fairweather]] is a director. | |||
* The Doctor offers Banks a [[jelly baby]]. | |||
* Miles calls [[Graham (The Ravencliff Witch)|Sir Graham]]. | |||
* Miles has [[Tony (The Ravencliff Witch)|Tony]] escort the Doctor from the power station. He later informs Miles that the Doctor and Banks have been in the reactor. | |||
* [[Margaret Hopwood's grandmother|Margaret's grandmother]] was a [[spiritualist]] and only became more of one following the death of [[Margaret Hopwood's father|Margaret's father]]. | |||
* In [[1483]], the witch appeared just before the ''[[Aguila]]'', a [[Spain|Spanish]] vessel, was wrecked in a [[storm]] and all those aboard died. | |||
* In [[1939]], the witch was seen shortly before a [[Germany|German]] [[U-boat]] was sunk off the coast of Ravencliff. Margaret remembers this. | |||
* [[Novium]] is a primordial [[actinide]]. | |||
* [[Margaret Hopwood's mother|Margaret's mother]] was fond of [[Dover Beach|a poem]]. | |||
* Silas would rather Amanda get a job in Folkestone or [[Hastings]]. | |||
* Banks asks if she is on ''[[Candid Camera]]'', a TV series where practical jokes are played on people. | |||
* [[Cardovian]]s come from [[Cardovia]], a [[planet]] near the outer edges of [[Hoag's Object]]. They were banished to the extremities of time by the [[Time Lord]]s for using their [[Eon Cube]]s recklessly. | |||
* Silas gets Margaret a [[hot chocolate]] and [[Rich Tea]] biscuits. | |||
* Miles talks to [[Charles (The Ravencliff Witch)|Charles]] over the phone. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This story was recorded on [[30 June (production)|30 June]] and [[5 July (production)|5 July]] [[2017 (production)|2017]] at [[Audio Sorcery]]. | * This story was recorded on [[30 June (production)|30 June]] and [[5 July (production)|5 July]] [[2017 (production)|2017]] at [[Audio Sorcery]]. | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
'' | One of Margaret's sculptures eventually went on display at the [[Braxiatel Collection]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'') | ||
== Cover gallery == | |||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
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[[Category:Stories set in | [[Category:Stories set in Kent]] | ||