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|series = [[Novel Adaptations|Big Finish ''Doctor Who'' Novel Adaptations]] | |series = [[Novel Adaptations|Big Finish ''Doctor Who'' Novel Adaptations]] | ||
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|adapted from = Love and War (novel) | |adapted from = Love and War (novel) | ||
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|enemy = The [[Hoothi]] | |enemy = The [[Hoothi]] | ||
|setting = [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]], [[2570]] | |setting = [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]], [[2570]] | ||
|writer = [[Paul Cornell]] | |writer = Jacqueline Rayner | ||
|contributors = {{il|Based on a novel by [[Paul Cornell]];|adapted for audio by [[Jacqueline Rayner]]}} | |||
|director = [[Gary Russell]] | |director = [[Gary Russell]] | ||
|music = [[Steve Foxon]] | |music = [[Steve Foxon]] | ||
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|cover = [[Andy Lambert]] | |cover = [[Andy Lambert]] | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|release date = | |release date = 24 October 2012 | ||
|format = | |format = 3 CDs<br/>Download | ||
|isbn = 978-1-78178-024-4 | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-024-4 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-78703-977-3 (digital) | ||
|next = The Highest Science (audio story) | |next = The Highest Science (audio story) | ||
|soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-love-and-war | |soundcloudtrailer = https://soundcloud.com/big-finish/doctor-who-love-and-war | ||
|musicsuite = https://soundcloud.com/stevefoxon/24-love-war-music-suite-2012 | |musicsuite = https://soundcloud.com/stevefoxon/24-love-war-music-suite-2012 | ||
}}{{audio stub}} | |producer = [[Gary Russell]] and [[Scott Handcock]] | ||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first story in [[Big Finish Productions]]' ''[[Novel Adaptations]]'' range. It was | |production code = BFPDWLWCD01 | ||
|featuring = [[Audrey Dudman|Audrey McShane]] | |||
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first story in [[Big Finish Productions]]' ''[[Novel Adaptations]]'' range. It was adapted by [[Jacqueline Rayner]] from [[Love and War (novel)|the novel of the same name]] by [[Paul Cornell]] and featured [[Sylvester McCoy]] as the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Sophie Aldred]] as [[Ace]] and [[Lisa Bowerman]] as [[Bernice Summerfield]]. | |||
It was created to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the novel's release. | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
On a planet called [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]], all hell is breaking loose. | On a planet called [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]], all hell is breaking loose. | ||
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* [[Audrey Dudman|Audrey McShane]] - [[Maggie Ollerenshaw]] | * [[Audrey Dudman|Audrey McShane]] - [[Maggie Ollerenshaw]] | ||
* [[Clive Aubrey]] - [[Christopher Allen]] | * [[Clive Aubrey]] - [[Christopher Allen]] | ||
* [[Julian Milton]] - [[James Unsworth]] | * [[Julian Milton]] - [[James Unsworth (actor)|James Unsworth]] | ||
* [[Piers Gavenal]] - [[Scott Handcock]] | * [[Piers Gavenal]] - [[Scott Handcock]] | ||
* [[Death ( | * [[Death (mythology)|Death]] - [[Charlie Hayes]] | ||
* [[Eros (god)|Eros]] - [[Peter Sheward]] | * [[Eros (god)|Eros]] - [[Peter Sheward]] | ||
== | === Uncredited Cast === | ||
* Weather forecaster - [[Paul Cornell]] | |||
== Crew == | |||
* Cover Art - [[Andy Lambert]] | |||
* Director - [[Gary Russell]] | |||
* Executive Producers - [[Nicholas Briggs]] and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]] | |||
* Music and Sound Design - [[Steve Foxon]] | |||
* Producers & Script Editors - Gary Russell and [[Scott Handcock]] | |||
* Writer - [[Paul Cornell]], adapted by [[Jacqueline Rayner]] | |||
* Line Producer - [[David Richardson]] | |||
== Worldbuilding == | |||
* Ace attends the funeral of her friend [[Julian Milton]] in [[Perivale]] in [[1993]]. | * Ace attends the funeral of her friend [[Julian Milton]] in [[Perivale]] in [[1993]]. | ||
* The Doctor and Ace both refer to Little Jackie Paper from the song "[[Puff, the Magic Dragon]]". | * The Doctor and Ace both refer to [[Little Jackie Paper]] from the song "[[Puff, the Magic Dragon]]". | ||
* Heaven is located in the space between the [[Earth Empire|Earth]] and [[Draconian Empire]]s. | * Heaven is located in the space between the [[Earth Empire|Earth]] and [[Draconian Empire]]s. | ||
* Given that the [[Vacuum Church|Church of Vacuum]] believe that the [[universe]] is an accident and everything is meaningless, Ace compares them to the [[Goth subculture]] of her own time. | * Given that the [[Vacuum Church|Church of Vacuum]] believe that the [[universe]] is an accident and everything is meaningless, Ace compares them to the [[Goth subculture]] of her own time. | ||
* Benny refers to [[the Isley Brothers]]. The Doctor claims that their best song was "[[This Old Heart of Mine]]". | * Benny refers to [[the Isley Brothers]]. The Doctor claims that their best song was "[[This Old Heart of Mine]]". | ||
* Ace's | * Ace's [[Audrey Dudman|mother]] named her after Dorothy Gale from ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'', as that was her maternal [[Kathleen Dudman|grandmother]]'s favourite film. | ||
* Benny mentions the [[Rosetta Stone]]. | * Benny mentions the [[Rosetta Stone]]. | ||
* Ace refers to the Hoothi as the "giant mushroom monster. | * Ace refers to the [[Hoothi]] as the "giant mushroom monster". | ||
* The Doctor mentions [[Jimi Hendrix]]. | * The Doctor mentions [[Jimi Hendrix]]. | ||
* Ace was unaware that Julian was [[gay]]. However, he | * Ace was unaware that Julian was [[gay]]. However, he came out to her mother. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This adaptation was the first audio drama to feature the Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield since ''[[The Dark Flame (audio story)|The Dark Flame]]'' in [[March]] [[2003]]. In the interim, the Doctor and Bernice appeared together in ''[[The Final Amendment (audio story)|The Final Amendment]]'', ''[[Benny's Story (audio story)|Benny's Story]]'' (featuring the [[Eighth Doctor]]) and ''[[Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code (audio story)|Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code]]''. | * This adaptation was the first audio drama to feature the Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield since ''[[The Dark Flame (audio story)|The Dark Flame]]'' in [[March (releases)|March]] [[2003 (releases)|2003]]. In the interim, the Doctor and Bernice appeared together in ''[[The Final Amendment (audio story)|The Final Amendment]]'', ''[[Benny's Story (audio story)|Benny's Story]]'' (featuring the [[Eighth Doctor]]) and ''[[Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code (audio story)|Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code]]''. | ||
* The [[Prelude Love and War (short story)|prelude]] to the story, originally printed in ''[[DWM 192|Doctor Who Magazine 192]]'', was recorded and released on the bonus | * The [[Prelude Love and War (short story)|prelude]] to the story, originally printed in ''[[DWM 192|Doctor Who Magazine 192]]'', was recorded and released on the bonus disc and as a free podcast. | ||
* Benny's costume on the CD cover is the same here as was depicted on the original novel's cover. | * Benny's costume on the CD cover is the same here as was depicted on the original novel's cover. | ||
* The CD comes with a reversible cover | * The CD comes with a reversible cover: one side is styled as a ''Doctor Who'' release with no number, and the other as part of the [[Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series]], again with no number. | ||
* After [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Burning Prince (audio story)|The Burning Prince]]'', this is the second Big Finish audio drama released in as many months to feature a [[pyrokinesis|pyrokinetic]] character, namely [[Jan Rydd]]. | * After [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Burning Prince (audio story)|The Burning Prince]]'', this is the second Big Finish audio drama released in as many months to feature a [[pyrokinesis|pyrokinetic]] character, namely [[Jan Rydd]]. | ||
* Big Finish ran a poll on Facebook where fans could vote on the best Big Finish Doctor Who audio of 2012, which this audio drama won. It was subsequently put on sale at half price for 48 hours. | * Big Finish ran a poll on Facebook where fans could vote on the best Big Finish Doctor Who audio of 2012, which this audio drama won. It was subsequently put on sale at half price for 48 hours. | ||
* This audio drama was recorded on [[28 January (production)|28]] and [[29 January (production)|29 January]] [[2012]]. | * This audio drama was recorded on [[28 January (production)|28]] and [[29 January (production)|29 January]] [[2012 (production)|2012]] at [[the Moat Studios]]. | ||
* This is the first Big Finish audio drama to adapt a ''Doctor Who'' novel in which the Doctor has not been removed (see [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Birthright (audio story)|Birthright]]'' and ''[[Just War (audio story)|Just War]]''). It also marks the first time that one of the DWM preludes has been dramatised. | * This is the first Big Finish audio drama to adapt a ''Doctor Who'' novel in which the Doctor has not been removed (see [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Birthright (audio story)|Birthright]]'' and ''[[Just War (audio story)|Just War]]''). It also marks the first time that one of the DWM preludes has been dramatised. | ||
* This was the first Big Finish adaptation of a Virgin New Adventures novel since ''[[Dragons' Wrath (audio story)|Dragon's Wrath]]'' in [[2000 (releases)|2000]]. | |||
== Deviations from the original novel == | == Deviations from the original novel == | ||
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* The scenes of the Doctor encountering the military are excised. | * The scenes of the Doctor encountering the military are excised. | ||
* The Doctor uses a [[sonic screwdriver]], whereas this was absent in the original novel. It was destroyed in [[TV]]: ''[[The Visitation (TV story)|The Visitation]]'', but reappeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Pit (novel)|The Pit]]''. | * The Doctor uses a [[sonic screwdriver]], whereas this was absent in the original novel. It was destroyed in [[TV]]: ''[[The Visitation (TV story)|The Visitation]]'', but reappeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Pit (novel)|The Pit]]''. | ||
* The characters of [[Paul Magrs (Love and War)|Paul Magrs]] and [[The Trickster (Love and War)|the Trickster]] were omitted. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* Several months before the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]]'s arrival on Heaven, the [[Traveller (Love and War)|Travellers]], including [[Jan Rydd]], [[Máire Mab Finn]], [[Roisa McIlnery]] and [[Christopher (Love and War)|Christopher]] were able to look into their future using [[Puterspace]] and learned that three-quarters would soon die. [[Death ( | * Several months before the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]]'s arrival on Heaven, the [[Traveller (Love and War)|Travellers]], including [[Jan Rydd]], [[Máire Mab Finn]], [[Roisa McIlnery]] and [[Christopher (Love and War)|Christopher]] were able to look into their future using [[Puterspace]] and learned that three-quarters would soon die. [[Death (mythology)|Death]] referred to the time travellers as Time's Champion and his steward respectively. At the same time, [[Clive Aubrey]] believed that he saw [[Hoothi sphere|a new planet]] in the sky while drunk. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Prelude Love and War (short story)|Prelude Love and War]]'') | ||
* Ace refers to the [[Dalek]]s' use of [[Dalek time technology|time travel]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') | * Ace refers to the [[Dalek]]s' use of [[Dalek time technology|time travel]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') | ||
* Máire tells Ace that she was once a [[Dalek Killer]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer (comic story)|Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer]]'') She uses a Dalek [[gunstick]] as a weapon. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') | * Máire tells Ace that she was once a [[Dalek Killer]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer (comic story)|Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer]]'') She uses a Dalek [[gunstick]] as a weapon. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') | ||
* Although this is Bernice Summerfield's first encounter with the Doctor from her perspective, the same is not true of him. The [[Sixth Doctor]] and his companion [[Evelyn Smythe]] had met Benny and [[Irving Braxiatel]] on a dig conducted by Irving's [[Braxiatel Collection|collection]]. The Sixth Doctor remained completely ignorant of the fact that Benny would later travel with him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The 100 Days of the Doctor (audio story)|The 100 Days of the Doctor]]'') It can be assumed the archaeologist did not reveal this information to him to avoid disrupting the [[Web of Time]]. For the same reason, the Doctor does not reveal to Benny that he has previously met her future self. | * Although this is Bernice Summerfield's first encounter with the Doctor from her perspective, the same is not true of him. The [[Sixth Doctor]] and his companion [[Evelyn Smythe]] had met Benny and [[Irving Braxiatel]] on a dig conducted by Irving's [[Braxiatel Collection|collection]]. The Sixth Doctor remained completely ignorant of the fact that Benny would later travel with him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The 100 Days of the Doctor (audio story)|The 100 Days of the Doctor]]'') It can be assumed the archaeologist did not reveal this information to him to avoid disrupting the [[Web of Time]]. For the same reason, the Doctor does not reveal to Benny that he has previously met her future self. | ||
* Benny tells the Doctor that her father [[Isaac Summerfield]], an admiral in the [[Spacefleet]] of the Earth Empire, disappeared during a battle with the Daleks and was assumed to have been killed. She would later discover that his ship, the ''[[Tisiphone]]'', had fallen through a [[time rift]] and was transported, along with its surviving crew, to [[Earth]] space in [[November]] [[1963]]. The Doctor, Benny, [[Roz Forrester]] and [[Chris Cwej]] met him in the village of [[Little Caldwell]], [[England]] in [[1983]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Return of the Living Dad (novel)|Return of the Living Dad]]'') | * Benny tells the Doctor that her father [[Isaac Summerfield]], an admiral in the [[Spacefleet]] of the Earth Empire, disappeared during a battle with the Daleks and was assumed to have been killed. She would later discover that his ship, the ''[[Tisiphone]]'', had fallen through a [[time rift]] and was transported, along with its surviving crew, to [[Earth]] space in [[November]] [[1963]]. The Doctor, Benny, [[Roz Forrester]] and [[Chris Cwej]] met him in the village of [[Little Caldwell]], [[England]] in [[1983]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Return of the Living Dad (novel)|Return of the Living Dad]]'') | ||
* Whilst in [[Puterspace]], the Doctor experiences his worst memory, namely his [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]] spending ten years dying in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] while travelling through the [[Time Vortex]], and refers to his former companion [[Sarah Jane Smith]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'') while Ace meets an illusory version of her mother [[Audrey Dudman|Audrey McShane]]. This is Ace's third encounter with her (in some form or another) since she began her travels with the Doctor. She previously met her as a baby in [[Maiden's Point]] in [[1943]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'') and as a toddler in [[London]] on [[8 May]] [[1945]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Casualties of War (audio story)|Casualties of War]]'') | * Whilst in [[Puterspace]], the Doctor experiences his worst memory, namely his [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]] spending ten years dying in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] while travelling through the [[Time Vortex]], and refers to his former companion [[Sarah Jane Smith]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'') while Ace meets an illusory version of her mother [[Audrey Dudman|Audrey McShane]]. This is Ace's third encounter with her (in some form or another) since she began her travels with the Doctor. She previously met her as a baby in [[Maiden's Point]] in [[1943]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'') and as a toddler in [[London]] on [[8 May]] [[1945]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Casualties of War (audio story)|Casualties of War]]'') | ||
* Audrey refers to Ace's younger brother [[Liam McShane]]. Several years earlier in her personal timeline, Ace was reunited with Liam in [[San Antonio]] on [[Ibiza]] on [[14 May]] [[1997]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rapture (audio story)|The Rapture]]'') | * Audrey refers to Ace's younger brother [[Liam McShane]]. Several years earlier in her personal timeline, Ace was reunited with Liam in [[San Antonio, Spain|San Antonio]] on [[Ibiza]] on [[14 May]] [[1997]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rapture (audio story)|The Rapture]]'') | ||
* Ace mentions her maternal grandmother [[Kathleen Dudman]], whom she likewise met in Maiden's Point in 1943. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'') That was the first time that Ace met her grandmother as she died in [[1973]], when Ace was only three years old. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Night Thoughts (audio story)|Night Thoughts]]'') | * Ace mentions her maternal grandmother [[Kathleen Dudman]], whom she likewise met in Maiden's Point in 1943. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'') That was the first time that Ace met her grandmother as she died in [[1973]], when Ace was only three years old. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Night Thoughts (audio story)|Night Thoughts]]'') | ||
* Ace refers to being transported to [[Iceworld]] in the [[far future]] by a [[time storm]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'') | * Ace refers to being transported to [[Iceworld]] in the [[far future]] by a [[time storm]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'') | ||
* The Doctor mentions that he has a model train set somewhere in the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Model Train Set (short story)|Model Train Set]]'', | * The Doctor mentions that he has a model train set somewhere in the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Model Train Set (short story)|Model Train Set]]'', ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'', ''[[Genocide (novel)|Genocide]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor]] claimed that he had wanted to drive a steam train as a [[First Doctor|boy]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Black Orchid (TV story)|Black Orchid]]'') | ||
* The Doctor tells Benny that he | * The Doctor tells Benny that he is what the monsters have nightmares about. The [[Tenth Doctor]] would later tell the young [[Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson]] the same thing in [[1727]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)|The Girl in the Fireplace]]'') | ||
* The Doctor refers to his former companion [[Dodo Chaplet]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Massacre | * The Doctor refers to his former companion [[Dodo Chaplet]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Massacre (TV story)|The Massacre]]'') who he claims reminded him of his granddaughter [[Susan Foreman]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') Ace has never heard of her, only knowing the word [[dodo]] "as in the the expression 'dead as a...'" Dodos are, in fact, a well known extinct bird. The Doctor had found examples of surviving Dodos on two occasions, one time before this adventure, one time after. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Didus Expedition (comic story)|The Didus Expedition]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Dodo (novel)|The Last Dodo]]'') | ||
* The Doctor initiates [[telepathic contact]] with Benny. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'' et al) | * The Doctor initiates [[telepathic contact]] with Benny. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'' et al.) | ||
* | * After leaving the TARDIS, Ace joined the the [[Earth Empire]]'s [[Spacefleet]]. She fought the Daleks as well as other aggressive species. Three years later, combat-hardened and cynical, she resumed travelling in the TARDIS with the Doctor and Benny. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deceit (novel)|Deceit]]'') | ||
* Benny would visit Heaven once again in the aftermath of the invasion of the Braxiatel Collection by the Daleks and the [[Fifth Axis]] in the early [[27th century]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Death and the Daleks (audio story)|Death and the Daleks]]'') | * Benny would visit Heaven once again in the aftermath of the invasion of the Braxiatel Collection by the Daleks and the [[Fifth Axis]] in the early [[27th century]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Death and the Daleks (audio story)|Death and the Daleks]]'') | ||
* While in the [[Land of Fiction]] library, Ace would later find a fictionalised version of these events in the form of a novel entitled ''[[Love and War]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Conundrum]]'') | * While in the [[Land of Fiction]] library, Ace would later find a fictionalised version of these events in the form of a novel entitled ''[[Love and War]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Conundrum]]'') | ||
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Love and War (disambiguation)for other, similarly-named pages.
Love and War was the first story in Big Finish Productions' Novel Adaptations range. It was adapted by Jacqueline Rayner from the novel of the same name by Paul Cornell and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace and Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield.
It was created to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the novel's release.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
On a planet called Heaven, all hell is breaking loose.
Heaven is a cemetery for both humans and Draconians — a final place of rest for those lost during wartime. The Doctor arrives on a trivial mission — to find a book, or so he says — and Ace, wandering around Joycetown, becomes involved with a charismatic Traveller called Jan.
But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance. What is he trying to prevent? Is he planning some more deadly game connected with the coffins revered by the mysterious Church of Vacuum and the unusual Arch that marks the location of a secret building below ground?
Archaeologist Bernice Summerfield thinks so. Her destiny is inextricably linked with that of the Doctor, but even she may not be able to save Ace from the Time Lord's plans.
This time, has the Doctor gone too far?
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Ace - Sophie Aldred
- Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
- Jan Rydd - James Redmond
- Máire Mab Finn - Riona O'Connor
- Roisa McIlnery - Aysha Kala
- Christopher - Ela Gaworzewska
- Brother Phaedrus - Bernard Holley
- Audrey McShane - Maggie Ollerenshaw
- Clive Aubrey - Christopher Allen
- Julian Milton - James Unsworth
- Piers Gavenal - Scott Handcock
- Death - Charlie Hayes
- Eros - Peter Sheward
Uncredited Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Weather forecaster - Paul Cornell
Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Cover Art - Andy Lambert
- Director - Gary Russell
- Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
- Music and Sound Design - Steve Foxon
- Producers & Script Editors - Gary Russell and Scott Handcock
- Writer - Paul Cornell, adapted by Jacqueline Rayner
- Line Producer - David Richardson
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Ace attends the funeral of her friend Julian Milton in Perivale in 1993.
- The Doctor and Ace both refer to Little Jackie Paper from the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon".
- Heaven is located in the space between the Earth and Draconian Empires.
- Given that the Church of Vacuum believe that the universe is an accident and everything is meaningless, Ace compares them to the Goth subculture of her own time.
- Benny refers to the Isley Brothers. The Doctor claims that their best song was "This Old Heart of Mine".
- Ace's mother named her after Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz, as that was her maternal grandmother's favourite film.
- Benny mentions the Rosetta Stone.
- Ace refers to the Hoothi as the "giant mushroom monster".
- The Doctor mentions Jimi Hendrix.
- Ace was unaware that Julian was gay. However, he came out to her mother.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- This adaptation was the first audio drama to feature the Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield since The Dark Flame in March 2003. In the interim, the Doctor and Bernice appeared together in The Final Amendment, Benny's Story (featuring the Eighth Doctor) and Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code.
- The prelude to the story, originally printed in Doctor Who Magazine 192, was recorded and released on the bonus disc and as a free podcast.
- Benny's costume on the CD cover is the same here as was depicted on the original novel's cover.
- The CD comes with a reversible cover: one side is styled as a Doctor Who release with no number, and the other as part of the Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series, again with no number.
- After AUDIO: The Burning Prince, this is the second Big Finish audio drama released in as many months to feature a pyrokinetic character, namely Jan Rydd.
- Big Finish ran a poll on Facebook where fans could vote on the best Big Finish Doctor Who audio of 2012, which this audio drama won. It was subsequently put on sale at half price for 48 hours.
- This audio drama was recorded on 28 and 29 January 2012 at the Moat Studios.
- This is the first Big Finish audio drama to adapt a Doctor Who novel in which the Doctor has not been removed (see AUDIO: Birthright and Just War). It also marks the first time that one of the DWM preludes has been dramatised.
- This was the first Big Finish adaptation of a Virgin New Adventures novel since Dragon's Wrath in 2000.
Deviations from the original novel[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The relationship between Ace and Jan is less developed than in the original novel.
- The scenes of the Doctor encountering the military are excised.
- The Doctor uses a sonic screwdriver, whereas this was absent in the original novel. It was destroyed in TV: The Visitation, but reappeared in PROSE: The Pit.
- The characters of Paul Magrs and the Trickster were omitted.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Several months before the Seventh Doctor and Ace's arrival on Heaven, the Travellers, including Jan Rydd, Máire Mab Finn, Roisa McIlnery and Christopher were able to look into their future using Puterspace and learned that three-quarters would soon die. Death referred to the time travellers as Time's Champion and his steward respectively. At the same time, Clive Aubrey believed that he saw a new planet in the sky while drunk. (AUDIO: Prelude Love and War)
- Ace refers to the Daleks' use of time travel. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
- Máire tells Ace that she was once a Dalek Killer. (COMIC: Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer) She uses a Dalek gunstick as a weapon. (TV: The Daleks)
- Although this is Bernice Summerfield's first encounter with the Doctor from her perspective, the same is not true of him. The Sixth Doctor and his companion Evelyn Smythe had met Benny and Irving Braxiatel on a dig conducted by Irving's collection. The Sixth Doctor remained completely ignorant of the fact that Benny would later travel with him. (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor) It can be assumed the archaeologist did not reveal this information to him to avoid disrupting the Web of Time. For the same reason, the Doctor does not reveal to Benny that he has previously met her future self.
- Benny tells the Doctor that her father Isaac Summerfield, an admiral in the Spacefleet of the Earth Empire, disappeared during a battle with the Daleks and was assumed to have been killed. She would later discover that his ship, the Tisiphone, had fallen through a time rift and was transported, along with its surviving crew, to Earth space in November 1963. The Doctor, Benny, Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej met him in the village of Little Caldwell, England in 1983. (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad)
- Whilst in Puterspace, the Doctor experiences his worst memory, namely his third incarnation spending ten years dying in the TARDIS while travelling through the Time Vortex, and refers to his former companion Sarah Jane Smith, (TV: Planet of the Spiders) while Ace meets an illusory version of her mother Audrey McShane. This is Ace's third encounter with her (in some form or another) since she began her travels with the Doctor. She previously met her as a baby in Maiden's Point in 1943 (TV: The Curse of Fenric) and as a toddler in London on 8 May 1945. (AUDIO: Casualties of War)
- Audrey refers to Ace's younger brother Liam McShane. Several years earlier in her personal timeline, Ace was reunited with Liam in San Antonio on Ibiza on 14 May 1997. (AUDIO: The Rapture)
- Ace mentions her maternal grandmother Kathleen Dudman, whom she likewise met in Maiden's Point in 1943. (TV: The Curse of Fenric) That was the first time that Ace met her grandmother as she died in 1973, when Ace was only three years old. (AUDIO: Night Thoughts)
- Ace refers to being transported to Iceworld in the far future by a time storm. (TV: Dragonfire)
- The Doctor mentions that he has a model train set somewhere in the TARDIS. (PROSE: Model Train Set, Vampire Science, Genocide) The Fifth Doctor claimed that he had wanted to drive a steam train as a boy. (TV: Black Orchid)
- The Doctor tells Benny that he is what the monsters have nightmares about. The Tenth Doctor would later tell the young Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson the same thing in 1727. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace)
- The Doctor refers to his former companion Dodo Chaplet, (TV: The Massacre) who he claims reminded him of his granddaughter Susan Foreman. (TV: An Unearthly Child) Ace has never heard of her, only knowing the word dodo "as in the the expression 'dead as a...'" Dodos are, in fact, a well known extinct bird. The Doctor had found examples of surviving Dodos on two occasions, one time before this adventure, one time after. (COMIC: The Didus Expedition, PROSE: The Last Dodo)
- The Doctor initiates telepathic contact with Benny. (TV: The Three Doctors et al.)
- After leaving the TARDIS, Ace joined the the Earth Empire's Spacefleet. She fought the Daleks as well as other aggressive species. Three years later, combat-hardened and cynical, she resumed travelling in the TARDIS with the Doctor and Benny. (PROSE: Deceit)
- Benny would visit Heaven once again in the aftermath of the invasion of the Braxiatel Collection by the Daleks and the Fifth Axis in the early 27th century. (AUDIO: Death and the Daleks)
- While in the Land of Fiction library, Ace would later find a fictionalised version of these events in the form of a novel entitled Love and War. (PROSE: Conundrum)
- An alternative version of the Doctor was able to save the Travellers. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin)
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official Love and War page at bigfinish.com
- DisContinuity for Love and War at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide
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