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writer= [[Joseph Lidster]] |
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|scripturl      = https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/documents/torchwood-radio-lost-souls-recording-script-2902008.pdf
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|main character  = [[Jack Harkness|Jack]], [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]], [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]]
broadcast date= Radio 4 - [[10th September]] [[2008]] <br/> CD - [[18th September]] [[2008]]|
|featuring        = [[Martha Jones|Martha]], [[Julia Swales|Julia]]
previous story = [[Exit Wounds]] |
|enemy           = [[Neutron eater]]
next story = [[The Stolen Earth]] }}
|setting          = [[Large Hadron Collider]], [[10 September]] [[2008]]
|writer          = Joseph Lidster
|director         = [[Kate McAll]]
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|network          = BBC Radio
|broadcast date  = 10 September 2008
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|isbn            = ISBN 978-1-4056-8944-1
|next            = Asylum (audio story)
|clip            = Torchwood Lost Souls
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'''''Lost Souls''''' is an original [[BBC Radio 4]] audio play written by [[Joseph Lidster]]. It aired on [[10 September (releases)|10 September]] [[2008 (releases)|2008]] in the Afternoon Play slot as part of Radio 4's ''Big Bang Day''. It celebrated the switching on of [[CERN]]'s [[Large Hadron Collider]], [[10 September|that day]]. [[Andrew Marr]] introduced the audio play live from CERN. An MP3 version of the audio play was made available for seven days after broadcast. It was released on CD on [[18 September (releases)|18 September]] 2008.


"'''Lost Souls'''" is an original [[BBC]] Radio 4 audio play written by [[Joseph Lidster]]. It aired on [[10th September]] [[2008]] in the Afternoon Play slot as part of Radio 4's ''Big Bang Day'' which celebrated the switching on of CERN's Large Hadron Collider that same day. An MP3 version of the audio play was made available for seven days after broadcast and it was released on CD [[18th September]] 2008. [[Andrew Marr]] introduced the audio play live from CERN.
== Publisher's summary ==
When scientists start to disappear prior to the activation of the [[Large Hadron Collider]] at [[CERN]], [[Switzerland]], Dr [[Martha Jones]] of [[UNIT]] asks her friends at [[Torchwood 3]], still grieving over the recent death of two colleagues, to investigate.


==Plot==
== Plot ==
===Synopsis===
[[Martha Jones|Martha]] invites [[Jack Harkness|Jack]], [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]] and [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] to [[Geneva]] where she explains that her friend, [[Julia Swales|Julia]], has gone missing after finding that eleven people suffering from inexplicable symptoms at [[CERN]] vanished after supposedly being sent to an off-site [[hospital]]. Whilst Jack and Martha examine [[Leon Foiret|Leon]], the latest to fall into a [[coma]], Gwen and Ianto go to check the facility's [[database]]s in the main computer room and confirm that everybody who has fallen ill had entered the [[Large Hadron Collider]] tunnels. Martha deduces that Leon is disintegrating from the inside because his [[neutron]]s have been taken, a phenomenon that Jack once saw whilst working at the [[Time Agency]].
When scientists start to disappear prior to the activation of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland, Dr. [[Martha Jones]] of [[UNIT]] asks her friends at [[Torchwood 3]], still grieving over the recent death of two colleagues, to investigate.


==Cast==
Jack confronts the project leader [[Katrina Johnson|Professor Johnson]], who claims to have no knowledge of any missing persons, and Gwen and Ianto [[cycling|cycle]] different ways down the tunnel in search of anything out of the ordinary. Ianto encounters an entity which claims to be the [[ghost]]s of [[Owen Harper|Owen]], [[Toshiko Sato|Tosh]] and [[Lisa Hallett|Lisa]] and Martha finds [[Oliver Harrington|Dr Harrington]], head of [[UNIT]]'s medical team, in a building absent from the site plans with the twelve missing people. Professor Johnson is unable to put a stop to the LHC demonstration but, with Jack's help, decides to send out [[antiproton]]s to stop the [[proton]]s from colliding and opening a [[portal]] for the entities.
* [[Captain Jack Harkness]] - [[John Barrowman]]  
 
* [[Gwen Cooper]] - [[Eve Myles]]  
Gwen finds Ianto glowing and unconscious and carries him towards the exit. Dr Harrington holds Martha [[hostage]] to force Jack and Professor Johnson into allowing the demonstration and explains that he heard the voice of [[Marie Harrington|his late wife]] when the LHC was tested, leading him to believe that the portal is to [[Heaven (afterlife)|Heaven]] and that she and those killed by the entity will return. He activates the tunnel [[lockdown]] and helps Gwen get Ianto out before the door closes, locking himself inside and dying with the entity after it confirms its deception. Ianto and the other victims are restored and Torchwood heads back to [[Cardiff]].
* [[Ianto Jones]] - [[Gareth David-Lloyd]]  
 
* [[Martha Jones]] - [[Freema Agyeman]]  
== Cast ==
* [[Professor Johnson]] - [[Lucy Montgomery]]  
* [[Jack Harkness|Captain Jack Harkness]] - [[John Barrowman]]
* [[Dr Harrington]] - [[Stephen Critchlow]]
* [[Gwen Cooper]] - [[Eve Myles]]
* [[Ianto Jones]] - [[Gareth David-Lloyd]]
* [[Martha Jones]] - [[Freema Agyeman]]
* [[Katrina Johnson|Professor Johnson]] - [[Lucy Montgomery]]
* [[Oliver Harrington|Dr Harrington]] - [[Stephen Critchlow]]
* [[Leon Foiret]] - [[Mark Meadows]]
* [[Leon Foiret]] - [[Mark Meadows]]
* [[Flight attendant (Lost Souls)|Flight Attendant]] - [[Lucy Montgomery]]
== Worldbuilding ==
* The team are heard in pursuit of [[Weevil]]s.
* [[CERN]] is located in [[Geneva]].
* Jack once flew from [[Venus]] to [[Mars]].
* CERN are looking for the [[Higgs particle]].
* The [[Large Hadron Collider]] is twenty-seven [[kilometre]]s round and goes through [[Switzerland]] and [[France]].
* Martha attended [[Owen Harper|Owen]] and [[Toshiko Sato|Tosh]]'s [[funeral]].
* Owen was working on adapting a [[Bekaran deep-tissue scanner]].
* Martha wishes she had a [[sonic screwdriver]] when she tries to open a locked door.
* Ianto and Gwen ride [[bicycle|bikes]] to help them navigate the underground passages at CERN. Ianto is delighted to learn his bike has a [[bell]] and rings it.
* Gwen mentions the [[Bahamas]].


==Continuity==
== Notes ==
*The Torchwood team are still grieving the deaths of their colleagues [[Owen Harper]] and [[Toshiko Sato]]. Reference is made to a funeral service, which [[Martha Jones]] attended; that was her most recent meeting with the Torchwood team prior to this adventure. This therefore places the events of ''Lost Souls'' as some time prior to the events of [[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''.
* ''Lost Souls'' was broadcast on [[10 September (releases)|10 September]] [[2008 (releases)|2008]]. As later confirmed by ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'' in the [[DWU]], the [[Large Hadron Collider]] was first tested on [[10 September]] [[2008]].
*They have not seen Martha Jones, who is working for [[UNIT]], since the funeral. Upon greeting Martha, Jack welcomes her with the words "voice of a nightingale", the phrase he greeted her with upon her arrival in the ''Torchwood'' episode "[[Reset (Torchwood story)|Reset]]" and again when she telephones him in [[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''.
*The team are heard in pursuit of recurring ''Torchwood'' monsters [[Weevil|Weevils]] and reference is made to Martha's fiancé, [[Thomas Milligan]], a character seen in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[Last of the Time Lords]]" and her friend [[Julia Swales]], a character seen in ''Doctor Who'' episode "[[Smith and Jones]]".
*An alien creature poses as the ghosts of Owen, Toshiko and Ianto's deceased girlfriend, [[Lisa Hallett]], a character seen in the ''Torchwood'' episode "[[Cyberwoman]]".
*Jack uses the phrase "reverse the polarity", a phrase associated with the [[Third Doctor]] in ''Doctor Who''.
*Martha wishes she had a [[sonic screwdriver]] when she tries to open a locked door.
*CERN is located at [[Geneva]], the location of UNIT's world headquarters as established during the [[Third Doctor]] era.


==Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors==
=== Download and CD release ===
*Torchwood is no longer a covert organisation? At the nightclub, Gwen introduces herself as "... [[Gwen Cooper]], we catch aliens". ''This story takes place after numerous world-wide events had made the knowledge of alien life widespread (for example, [[DW]]: [[The Runaway Bride]]). Several Torchwood episodes, such as [[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]] and [[Dead Man Walking]] establish that Torchwood is, to a degree, widely known by the public; that said they aren't universally known given Professor Johnson's ignorance of the group.''
* ''Lost Souls'' was released by [[BBC Audio]] in both CD and MP3 download formats on [[18 September (releases)|18 September]] [[2008 (releases)|2008]], only a week after broadcast. Straight after initial broadcast, for one week only, internet users could download the radio serial free from the BBC website. The CD also includes the BBC Radio Wales feature ''[[Torchwood: All Access]]''. Presented by Julian Carey and aired to coincide with the debut of Series 2, this is a 25-minute documentary on the Welsh aspects of the program, featuring interviews with [[Russell T Davies]], [[Eve Myles]], [[Gareth David-Lloyd]], [[Kai Owen]] and behind-the-scenes personnel. The mastering of the track contains an error that results in several minutes of discussion regarding the Hub set and its construction being repeated.
*The story is intended to coincide with the real-life activation of the collider. However it has been established that "current" Torchwood storylines take place a year ahead of real time, so this story takes place in 2009 - a year ''after'' the real-life activation of the collider. ''Not everything in the Doctor Who Universe coincides exactly with real-life history. Perhaps in the DWU the Collider wasn't activated until 2009 -- possibly due to some of the other-worldly events that had occurred recently? (In fact, in the real world such a scenario appears to be playing out as repairs to the collider have delayed its full activation until 2009.  or it could be reactivation after its failure in 2008)''
* ''Lost Souls'', ''[[Asylum (audio story)|Asylum]]'', ''[[Golden Age (audio story)|Golden Age]]'' and ''[[The Dead Line]]'' were released, both individually, and together as a four-disc collected box set, entitled ''The Radio Adventures''.


==Releases==
== Continuity ==
''Lost Souls'' was released by [[BBC Audio]] in both CD and MP3 download formats on [[18th September]] 2008, only a week after broadcast (ISBN 978-1-405-68944-1). The CD includes as a bonus the BBC Radio Wales feature ''Torchwood: All Access''. Presented by Julian Carey and aired to coincide with the debut of Series 2, this is a 25-minute documentary on the Welsh aspects of the program, featuring interviews with [[Russell T. Davies]], [[Eve Myles]], [[Gareth David-Lloyd]], [[Kai Owen]] and behind-the-scenes personnel. The mastering of the track contains an error that results in several minutes of discussion regarding the Hub set and its construction being repeated.
* The Torchwood team are still grieving the deaths of their colleagues [[Owen Harper]] and [[Toshiko Sato]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'')
* When greeting Martha, Jack welcomes her with the words "voice of a nightingale", the phrase he used on her arrival in [[TV]]: ''[[Reset (TV story)|Reset]]'' and again when she telephoned him in [[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]''.
* Martha is still working for UNIT. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'', et al)
* [[Julia Swales]] was first seen working alongside Martha in [[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones (TV story)|Smith and Jones]]''.
* The [[Large Hadron Collider]] would later show up in [[TV]]: ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'', as well as [[CERN]] itself.
* An alien creature poses as the ghosts of Owen, Toshiko and Ianto's deceased girlfriend, [[Lisa Hallett]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'', ''[[Cyberwoman (TV story)|Cyberwoman]]'')
* Evidently this isn't the first time that CERN was involved with creating a black hole, as [[K9 Mark IV]] was tasked with fixing a black hole created by an earlier experiment in [[Switzerland]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]'')
* [[Liz Shaw]] joined CERN after leaving [[UNIT]] in the [[1970s]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Country of the Blind (short story)|Country of the Blind]]'')


==References==
== External links ==
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==External links==
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[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/bigbang/torchwood.shtml "Lost Souls" at BBC Radio 4's website]
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Lost Souls is an original BBC Radio 4 audio play written by Joseph Lidster. It aired on 10 September 2008 in the Afternoon Play slot as part of Radio 4's Big Bang Day. It celebrated the switching on of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, that day. Andrew Marr introduced the audio play live from CERN. An MP3 version of the audio play was made available for seven days after broadcast. It was released on CD on 18 September 2008.

Publisher's summary[[edit]]

When scientists start to disappear prior to the activation of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland, Dr Martha Jones of UNIT asks her friends at Torchwood 3, still grieving over the recent death of two colleagues, to investigate.

Plot[[edit]]

Martha invites Jack, Gwen and Ianto to Geneva where she explains that her friend, Julia, has gone missing after finding that eleven people suffering from inexplicable symptoms at CERN vanished after supposedly being sent to an off-site hospital. Whilst Jack and Martha examine Leon, the latest to fall into a coma, Gwen and Ianto go to check the facility's databases in the main computer room and confirm that everybody who has fallen ill had entered the Large Hadron Collider tunnels. Martha deduces that Leon is disintegrating from the inside because his neutrons have been taken, a phenomenon that Jack once saw whilst working at the Time Agency.

Jack confronts the project leader Professor Johnson, who claims to have no knowledge of any missing persons, and Gwen and Ianto cycle different ways down the tunnel in search of anything out of the ordinary. Ianto encounters an entity which claims to be the ghosts of Owen, Tosh and Lisa and Martha finds Dr Harrington, head of UNIT's medical team, in a building absent from the site plans with the twelve missing people. Professor Johnson is unable to put a stop to the LHC demonstration but, with Jack's help, decides to send out antiprotons to stop the protons from colliding and opening a portal for the entities.

Gwen finds Ianto glowing and unconscious and carries him towards the exit. Dr Harrington holds Martha hostage to force Jack and Professor Johnson into allowing the demonstration and explains that he heard the voice of his late wife when the LHC was tested, leading him to believe that the portal is to Heaven and that she and those killed by the entity will return. He activates the tunnel lockdown and helps Gwen get Ianto out before the door closes, locking himself inside and dying with the entity after it confirms its deception. Ianto and the other victims are restored and Torchwood heads back to Cardiff.

Cast[[edit]]

Worldbuilding[[edit]]

Notes[[edit]]

Download and CD release[[edit]]

  • Lost Souls was released by BBC Audio in both CD and MP3 download formats on 18 September 2008, only a week after broadcast. Straight after initial broadcast, for one week only, internet users could download the radio serial free from the BBC website. The CD also includes the BBC Radio Wales feature Torchwood: All Access. Presented by Julian Carey and aired to coincide with the debut of Series 2, this is a 25-minute documentary on the Welsh aspects of the program, featuring interviews with Russell T Davies, Eve Myles, Gareth David-Lloyd, Kai Owen and behind-the-scenes personnel. The mastering of the track contains an error that results in several minutes of discussion regarding the Hub set and its construction being repeated.
  • Lost Souls, Asylum, Golden Age and The Dead Line were released, both individually, and together as a four-disc collected box set, entitled The Radio Adventures.

Continuity[[edit]]

External links[[edit]]

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