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|setting = [[Albion]], [[Middle Ages]] | |setting = [[Albion]], [[Middle Ages]] | ||
|writer = [[James Goss]] | |writer = [[James Goss]] | ||
|director = [[ | |director = [[Barnaby Edwards]] | ||
|sound = [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]] | |sound = [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]] | ||
|music = [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]] | |music = [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]] | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* Donna and Natalie are taken to the Middle Ages by Parval, who summoned the time mage Merlin. ([[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]'') | * Donna and Natalie are taken to the Middle Ages by Parval, who summoned the time mage Merlin. ([[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]'') | ||
* Donna uses the phrase "wizard". A parallel version of her would also use it ([[TV]]: [[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]), as would the Meta-Crisis Doctor on realising he is part human. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') | * Donna uses the phrase "wizard". A parallel version of her would also use it ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]''), as would the Meta-Crisis Doctor on realising he is part human. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') | ||
* Natalie thinks the monks might be ninjas. The Doctor has previously encountered monks trained in martial arts. ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'') | * Natalie thinks the monks might be ninjas. The Doctor has previously encountered monks trained in martial arts. ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'') | ||
* Parval says Merlin has many bodies to contain all the stories about him, and asks why one shouldn't be a woman. The Doctor would later have female incarnations. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'' et al., [[PROSE]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'') | * Parval says Merlin has many bodies to contain all the stories about him, and asks why one shouldn't be a woman. The Doctor would later have female incarnations. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'' et al., [[PROSE]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'') | ||
Latest revision as of 19:15, 19 June 2024
The Sorcerer of Albion was the third audio story in the anthology Donna Noble: Kidnapped!.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Trying to get home, Donna and Nat end up in the right place at the wrong time – the Middle Ages!
A monastery is under siege from the Burning Knights, and the great Sorcerer Parval calls on the assistance of another great mage. He has summoned Merlin herself – or as Nat knows her, Donna Noble!
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Donna Noble - Catherine Tate
- Natalie - Niky Wardley
- Parval - David Schofield
- Vivien - Lydia West
- Garrison - Sebastian Armesto
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- When shown an image of her husband by the TARDIS, Natalie asks for Zac Efron or Will Miller instead, but the TARDIS refuses.
- Natalie describes Derren Brown as the greatest sorcerer who ever lived.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- This story is set between Forest of the Dead and Midnight.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Donna and Natalie are taken to the Middle Ages by Parval, who summoned the time mage Merlin. (TV: Battlefield)
- Donna uses the phrase "wizard". A parallel version of her would also use it (TV: Turn Left), as would the Meta-Crisis Doctor on realising he is part human. (TV: Journey's End)
- Natalie thinks the monks might be ninjas. The Doctor has previously encountered monks trained in martial arts. (TV: Tooth and Claw)
- Parval says Merlin has many bodies to contain all the stories about him, and asks why one shouldn't be a woman. The Doctor would later have female incarnations. (TV: Twice Upon a Time et al., PROSE: Rose)
- Parval believes Nat can read ancient Babylonian as a gift from Merlin. Donna reveals the TARDIS translates languages. (TV: The End of the World et al.)
- Emergency programme 12 reverses the polarity of its particles. This was a technique commonly used by the Doctor. (TV: The Dæmons et al.)
- Donna describes herself as a temp from Chiswick. She would do so again in TV: Journey's End.
- Donna describes the Doctor as her mate. (TV: Partners in Crime)
- Natalie finds a manual for the Doctor's TARDIS which he dropped in a antique clothes store during the Third Crusade. (TV: The Crusade)
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official The Sorcerer of Albion page at bigfinish.com
