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|name= Beautiful Things
|range          = Jago & Litefoot
|image= 4.2 Beautiful Things.jpg
|series in range = Jago & Litefoot: Series Four
|series=[[Jago and Litefoot]]
|series number in range = 4
|number= 4.2
|number in series = 2
|main character  =[[Henry Gordon Jago]]<br />[[George Litefoot|Professor George Litefoot]]<br />[[Leela]]
|series          = ''[[Jago & Litefoot]]''
|featuring      =[[Ellie Higson]]<br />[[Percival Quick|Sergeant Quick]]<br />[[Oscar Wilde]]<br />[[Sixth Doctor|Professor Claudius Dark]]
|number         = 4.2
|enemy = [[Warren Gadd]]<br />[[Kempston|Mr Kempston]]<br />[[Hardwick|Mr Hardwick]]
|main character  = [[Henry Gordon Jago|Jago]], [[George Litefoot|Litefoot]], [[Leela]]
|setting        =[[London]], the [[1890s]]
|featuring      = Ellie Higson
|writer = [[John Dorney]]
|featuring2      = Percival Quick
|director = [[Lisa Bowerman]]
|featuring3      = Oscar Wilde
|producer=
|featuring4      = Claudius Dark
|publisher= [[Big Finish Productions]]
|enemy           = [[Warren Gadd]], [[Kempston]], [[Hardwick]]
|release date= [[March]] [[2012]]
|setting        = [[London]], [[1890s]]
|format= 1 CD
|writer         = John Dorney
|production code= BFPJLCD04
|director       = [[Lisa Bowerman]]
|isbn= ISBN 978-1-84435-562-4
|music          = [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]]
|prev= Jago in Love (audio story)
|sound          = [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]]
|next= The Lonely Clock (audio story)}}
|cover          = [[Alex Mallinson]]
'''''Beautiful Things''''' is the fourteenth [[Big Finish Productions]] audio drama in the ''[[Jago and Litefoot]]'' series and the second episode of Series Four.
|publisher      = Big Finish Productions
|anthology      = Jago & Litefoot: Series Four
|release date   = March 2012
|format         = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>2nd of 4 stories
|production code = BFPJLCD04
|isbn           = ISBN 978-1-84435-562-4
|prev           = Jago in Love (audio story)
|next           = The Lonely Clock (audio story)
|producer = [[David Richardson]]
|epcount = 1
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'''''Beautiful Things''''' is the fourteenth [[Big Finish Productions]] audio drama in the ''[[Jago & Litefoot]]'' series and the second episode of [[Jago & Litefoot: Series Four|series 4]].


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
Jago, Leela and Ellie take a trip to the theatre to see [[Oscar Wilde|Oscar Wilde's]] new play and discover something sinister during the interval. Meanwhile, bodies are turning up at Litefoot’s lab, while Wilde meets his biggest fan...
Jago, Leela and Ellie take a trip to the theatre to see [[Oscar Wilde]]'s new play and discover something sinister during the interval. Meanwhile, bodies are turning up at Litefoot's lab, while Wilde meets his biggest fan...


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
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* [[Ellie Higson]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]]
* [[Ellie Higson]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]]
* [[Percival Quick|Sergeant Quick]] - [[Conrad Asquith]]
* [[Percival Quick|Sergeant Quick]] - [[Conrad Asquith]]
* [[Oscar Wilde]] - [[Alan Cox]]  
* [[Oscar Wilde]] - [[Alan Cox]]
* [[Warren Gadd]] - [[John Sackville]]
* [[Warren Gadd]] - [[John Sackville]]
* [[Kempston|Mr Kempston]] - [[Christopher Beeny]]
* [[Kempston|Mr Kempston]] - [[Christopher Beeny]]
* [[Hardwick|Mr Hardwick]] - [[Mike Grady]]
* [[Hardwick|Mr Hardwick]] - [[Mike Grady]]
and
* [[Sixth Doctor|Professor Claudius Dark]] - [[Colin Baker]]
* [[Sixth Doctor|Professor Claudius Dark]] - [[Colin Baker]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* Leela tells Jago and Litefoot that the flash of her blade is enough to fend off the advances of the builders in Litefoot's house. As her room is uninhabitable, she has taken to sleeping in one of the flower beds in Litefoot's garden.
* Jago mistakes ''[[Widowers' Houses]]'' for one of Wilde's plays. As Wilde informs him, it was actually written by his fellow Irish playwright [[George Bernard Shaw]].
* [[Sixth Doctor|Professor Claudius Dark]] claims that his enemies have found a way to him through Jago and Litefoot and he sent them to [[Brighton]] for their own protection. Being aware of their harrowing experiences while there, he suggests that he take them to see the Irish author and playwright [[Oscar Wilde]]'s new play ''A Woman of No Importance'' at the [[Haymarket Theatre]]. Litefoot finds it suspicious that Professor Dark has been able to procure tickets to the play at such short notice.
* Having previously met Wilde, Litefoot claims that he was not enamoured with him due to his egotistical behaviour. He describes Wilde's work as being about "terribly grand people being terribly witty about things that mean terribly little."
* Leela claims that she would have stabbed Lord Illingworth, one of the characters in the play, through the heart for his actions.
* While Jago and Litefoot were in Brighton, several young men, all artists and writers, were found alive but displaying only the barest signs of life. They were all brain dead and died within several days. All of these men were found standing up, staring into space with dead eyes. Sgt. Quick tells Litefoot that all of them lied about their intended destination when they were last seen in a normal state. One victim was a poet named Ambrose Hutchinson, who died shortly after Litefoot examined him. He claimed that he was going to visit his mother, who had in actuality died years earlier. Litefoot believes that their consciousnesses have been stolen.
* Leela states that Warren Gadd has no scent of any kind.
* Jago mistakes ''Widowers' Houses'' for one of Wilde's plays. As Wilde informs him, it was actually written by his fellow Irish playwright [[George Bernard Shaw]].
* Litefoot believes that Gadd has stolen the consciousnesses of the artists so as to halt the ageing process. On investigating his house, Litefoot and Sgt. Quick discover that he has an avatar who shows significant signs of ageing and infirmity. Litefoot compares this situation to Wilde's novel ''The Picture of Dorian Gray''. He is surprised that Jago has not read the book, considering that even Sgt. Quick has done so. In his defence, Jago tells him that he is "more of a [[Charles Dickens|Dickens]] man" and that he was "beside [himself] when Little Nell died," referring to the heroine of ''The Old Curiosity Shop''. Upon investigation, Jago discovers that Gadd was born in [[1851]] and that his parents died in the same manner as the artists.
* Gadd is aware that Wilde is keeping a terrible secret from his wife Constance. He comments that he observed him in the company of Lord Alfred Douglas at the party in Somerset House.
* A lover of art who places beauty over everything else, Gadd created his infinite library using the power of his mind as a child. It contains every book and song that could possibly be written and every work of art that could ever be created. He claims that it is a conceptual space rather than an actual one.
* Litefoot determines that the elderly and infirm Gadd is the real one and the young Gadd the avatar, the exact opposite of the situation in ''The Picture of Dorian Gray''.
* Litefoot expresses the hope that homosexuals such as Wilde and Gadd's victims shall be able to practice their love freely in a more enlightened time in the future.
* Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick directed Gadd to make Wilde his next victim, hoping that the [[temporal paradox]] caused by Wilde's death in the [[1890s]] would attract Professor Dark's attention and force him to come out of the shadows. However, Jago, Litefoot, Leela and Wilde were able to resolve the situation without Dark's assistance.


== Story notes ==
== Story notes ==
* [[Alan Cox]] (Oscar Wilde) previously played [[John Matthews]] in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Roof of the World (audio story)|The Roof of the World]]'' and [[Mark Seven (The Destroyers)|Mark Seven]] in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destroyers (audio story)|The Destroyers]]''.
* Although the overall series is not given a date more specific than the [[1890s]] until the audio story ''[[The Final Act (audio story)|The Final Act]]'', Oscar Wilde's play ''[[A Woman of No Importance]]'' premiered on 19 April 1893, whereas [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s play ''Widowers' Houses'' premiered on 9 December 1892 in real life. However, Litefoot, referring to "the love that dares not speak its name," quotes the poem ''Two Loves'' by [[Alfred Douglas|Lord Alfred Douglas]], which was originally published in 1894.
* [[John Sackville]] (Warren Gadd) previously played [[Polly Wright]]'s uncle [[Randolph Wright]] and a [[Randolph Wright (Nazi spy)|Nazi spy who impersonated him]] in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Resistance (audio story)|Resistance]]''.
* ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' by Oscar Wilde previously played an important role in the audio story ''[[Echoes of Grey (audio story)|Echoes of Grey]]'', which was likewise written by [[John Dorney]].
* Although the overall series is not given a date more specific than the [[1890s]] until [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Final Act (audio story)|The Final Act]]'', Oscar Wilde's play ''A Woman of No Importance'' premiered on [[19 April]] [[1893]] whereas [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s play ''Widowers' Houses'' premiered on [[9 December]] [[1892]] in real life. However, Litefoot, referring to "the love that dares not speak its name," quotes the poem ''Two Loves'' by [[Alfred Douglas|Lord Alfred Douglas]], which was originally published in [[1894]].
* ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' by Oscar Wilde previously played an important role in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Echoes of Grey (audio story)|Echoes of Grey]]'', which was likewise written by [[John Dorney]].


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Litefoot's house is still being repaired. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Chronoclasm (audio story)|Chronoclasm]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jago in Love (audio story)|Jago in Love]]'')
* Litefoot's house is still being repaired. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Chronoclasm (audio story)|Chronoclasm]]'', ''[[Jago in Love (audio story)|Jago in Love]]'')
* Jago and Leela discuss the former's brief relationship with [[Abigail Woburn]] during their trip to [[Brighton]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jago in Love (audio story)|Jago in Love]]'') Leela tells him that she knows how it feels to lose [[Andred|someone]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Insurgency (audio story)|Insurgency]]'')
* Jago and Leela discuss the former's brief relationship with [[Abigail Woburn]] during their trip to [[Brighton]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jago in Love (audio story)|Jago in Love]]'') Leela tells him that she knows how it feels to lose [[Andred|someone]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Insurgency (audio story)|Insurgency]]'')
* Per [[Sixth Doctor|Professor Claudius Dark]]'s instructions, Leela suggested that she, Jago and Litefoot have a holiday in [[Brighton]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jago in Love (audio story)|Jago in Love]]'')
* Per [[Sixth Doctor|Professor Claudius Dark]]'s instructions, Leela suggested that she, Jago and Litefoot have a holiday in [[Brighton]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jago in Love (audio story)|Jago in Love]]'')
* Litefoot has previously met Wilde. Following the appearance of metal spheres from the future in [[1890s]] [[London]], the [[Metropolitan Police Service]] issued the cover story that they were a stunt by a group by Bohemian artists. When Litefoot raised the possibility that this may, in fact, be the case, [[Percival Quick|Sergeant Quick]] told him that the police had interviewed Wilde to that end and were confident that he had nothing to do with it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Chronoclasm (audio story)|Chronoclasm]]'')
* Litefoot has previously met Wilde. Following the appearance of metal spheres from the future in [[1890s]] [[London]], the [[Metropolitan Police Service]] issued the cover story that they were a stunt by a group by Bohemian artists. When Litefoot raised the possibility that this may, in fact, be the case, [[Percival Quick|Sergeant Quick]] told him that the police had interviewed Wilde to that end and were confident that he had nothing to do with it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Chronoclasm (audio story)|Chronoclasm]]'')
* After watching the first half of ''A Woman of No Importance'', Leela thanks [[Xoanon]] as she initially believes that the play is over. She tells Jago and Ellie that she would have stabbed herself with a [[janis thorn]] if she had had one to hand. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]'')
* After watching the first half of ''A Woman of No Importance'', Leela thanks [[Xoanon]] as she initially believes that the play is over. She tells Jago and Ellie that she would have stabbed herself with a [[janis thorn]] if she had had one to hand. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]'')
* The [[Sixth Doctor]] had previously claimed to have attended the premiere of Wilde's subsequent play ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Assassin in the Limelight (audio story)|Assassin in the Limelight]]'')
* The [[Sixth Doctor]] had previously claimed to have attended the premiere of Wilde's subsequent play ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Assassin in the Limelight (audio story)|Assassin in the Limelight]]'')


== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{Bigfinish|releases/v/jago-litefoot-series-four-box-set-558|Beautiful Things - Series Four Box Set}}
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Beautiful Things is the fourteenth Big Finish Productions audio drama in the Jago & Litefoot series and the second episode of series 4.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Jago, Leela and Ellie take a trip to the theatre to see Oscar Wilde's new play and discover something sinister during the interval. Meanwhile, bodies are turning up at Litefoot's lab, while Wilde meets his biggest fan...

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Although the overall series is not given a date more specific than the 1890s until the audio story The Final Act, Oscar Wilde's play A Woman of No Importance premiered on 19 April 1893, whereas George Bernard Shaw's play Widowers' Houses premiered on 9 December 1892 in real life. However, Litefoot, referring to "the love that dares not speak its name," quotes the poem Two Loves by Lord Alfred Douglas, which was originally published in 1894.
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde previously played an important role in the audio story Echoes of Grey, which was likewise written by John Dorney.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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