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|enemy          = [[Sil]]
|enemy          = [[Sil]], [[Velandari]]
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|featuring      = [[Cordelia Crozier|Cordelia]], [[Na]], [[Anzor]]
|writer          = [[Philip Martin]]
|setting        = {{il|[[Tranquility]]|[[London]], [[2382]]}}
|writer          = Philip Martin
|director        = [[Nicholas Briggs]]
|director        = [[Nicholas Briggs]]
|producer        = [[David Richardson]]
|music          = [[Fool Circle Productions]]
|music          = [[Fool Circle Productions]]
|sound          = [[Fool Circle Productions]]
|sound          = [[Fool Circle Productions]]
|cover          = [[Damien May]]
|epcount        = 4
|publisher      = Big Finish Productions
|publisher      = Big Finish Productions
|release date    = [[January (releases)|January]] [[2014]]
|release date    = 14 January 2014
|format          = 4 Parts, 2 CD
|format          = 2 CDs<br/>Download
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|production code = 7C/NAD
|isbn            = ISBN 978-1-78178-298-9  
|isbn            = ISBN 978-1-78178-298-9 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-78575-729-7 (digital)
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}}'''''Antidote to Oblivion''''' was the one hundred and eighty-second story in [[Big Finish]]'s [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly range]].
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'''''Antidote to Oblivion''''' was the one hundred and eighty-second story in [[Big Finish]]'s [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Philip Martin]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]], [[Lisa Greenwood]] as [[Flip Jackson]] and [[Nabil Shaban]] as [[Sil]].


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
Future Britain is bankrupt, its corporate owners facing financial ruin. Fortunately, the Universal Monetary Fund, and its slimy representative Sil, are willing to give its President a multi-billion credit bail-out... but terms and conditions apply, and Sil's proposed austerity measures go far beyond mere benefit cuts.
Future [[Britain]] is bankrupt, its corporate owners facing financial ruin. Fortunately, the [[Universal Monetary Fund]], and its slimy representative [[Sil]], are willing to give its President a multi-billion [[credit]] bail-out... but terms and conditions apply, and Sil's proposed austerity measures go far beyond mere benefit cuts.


Responding to a distress call, the Doctor and his companion Flip land in a London whose pacified population has been driven largely underground. But the horrors down there in the dark are as nothing to the horrors that await them at ConCorp HQ, where a young biochemist in Sil's employ is working on a permanent solution to the nation's terminal unprofitability.
Responding to a distress call, [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]] and his companion [[Flip Jackson|Flip]] land in a [[London]] whose pacified population has been driven largely underground. But the horrors down there in the dark are as nothing to the horrors that await them at [[ConCorp HQ]], where a young biochemist in Sil's employ is working on a permanent solution to the nation's terminal unprofitability.


Because in the final account, Sil plans to make a killing...
Because in the final account, Sil plans to make a killing...


==Plot==
== Plot ==
===Part One===
=== Part one ===
''to be added''
''to be added''


===Part Two===
=== Part two ===
''to be added''
''to be added''


===Part Three===
=== Part three ===
''to be added''
''to be added''


===Part Four===
=== Part four ===
''to be added''
''to be added''


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* [[Flip Jackson]] - [[Lisa Greenwood]]
* [[Flip Jackson]] - [[Lisa Greenwood]]
* [[Sil]] - [[Nabil Shaban]]
* [[Sil]] - [[Nabil Shaban]]
* [[Cordelia Crozier]] - [[Dawn Murphy]]
* [[Cordelia Crozier|Cordelia]] - [[Dawn Murphy]]
* [[Pan]]/[[Mav|Lord Mav]] - [[David Dobson]]
* [[Pan Connell]] / [[Mav|Lord Mav]] - [[David Dobson]]
* [[Cerise]] - [[Mary-Ann Cafferkey]]
* [[Cerise Davies]] - [[Mary-Ann Cafferkey]]
* [[Boscoe|President Boscoe]]/[[Voda]]/[[Knight Marshal]] - [[Scott Joesph]]
* [[Amadeus Boscoe|President Boscoe]] / [[Voda]] / [[Knight Marshal]] - [[Scott Joseph]]
* [[Kristal]]/[[Mistress Na]]/[[Velena]] - [[Mandy Weston]]
* [[Kristal]] / [[Na|Mistress Na]] / [[Velena]] - [[Mandy Weston]]
* [[Bob (Antidote to Oblivion)|Bob]] / [[Director (Antidote to Oblivion)|Director]] - [[Nicholas Briggs]]


== References ==
== Crew ==
''to be added''
 
* Cover Art - [[Damien May]]
* Director - [[Nicholas Briggs]]
* Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]]
* Music and Sound Design - [[Fool Circle Productions]]
* Producer - [[David Richardson]]
* Script Editor - [[Alan Barnes]]
* Writer - [[Philip Martin]]
* Sil created by Philip Martin
 
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Doctor cannot remember much about the [[24th century]].
* [[Democracy]] ended in the [[United Kingdom]] in [[2268]].
* Flip refers to the mutated [[Anzor]] as resembling "a pink [[potato]] with eyes on sticks."
* Sil describes the Doctor as "revoltingly humane."


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This story was recorded on [[11 June (production)|11]] and [[12 June (production)|12 June]] [[2013]].
* This story was recorded on [[11 June (production)|11]] and [[12 June (production)|12 June]] [[2013 (production)|2013]] at [[the Moat Studios]].
* This was the first time [[Nabil Shaban]] had portrayed Sil in an original story since 1986's ''[[Mindwarp (TV story)|Mindwarp]]''. His previous audio appearance, ''[[Mission to Magnus (audio story)|Mission to Magnus]]'', was an adaptation of [[Mission to Magnus (TV story)|a story originally intended for the TV series]].
* This story was originally released on CD and download.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
* The Doctor tells Flip that there are several [[Atlantis]]es. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Underwater Menace (TV story)|The Underwater Menace]]'', ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'', ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'')
* Flip recalls that she first met the Doctor in the [[London Underground]] in [[2010]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crimes of Thomas Brewster (audio story)|The Crimes of Thomas Brewster]]'')
* The Doctor tells Flip that he spent time as a [[rat]] catcher in [[Hamelin]] in [[1284]], where he met the [[Pied Piper]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Challenge of the Piper (comic story)|Challenge of the Piper]]'')
* Flip refers to [[Guy Fawkes]] and the [[Gunpowder Plot]] of [[1605]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Plotters (novel)|The Plotters]]''; [[GAME]]: ''[[The Gunpowder Plot (video game)|The Gunpowder Plot]]'')
* Sil refers to [[Peri Brown]]'s departure from the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mindwarp (TV story)|Mindwarp]]'')
* The Doctor mentions that Anzor was sent back in time to the Antediluvian past after their encounter on [[Magnus (planet)|Magnus]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mission to Magnus (audio story)|Mission to Magnus]]'')
* Miss Cordelia is the daughter of [[Crozier]]. She blames the Doctor for her father's death on [[Thoros-Beta]] in [[2379]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mindwarp (TV story)|Mindwarp]]'')
* The Doctor laments the destruction of his [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdriver]] by the [[Terileptil]] leader in [[September]] [[1666]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Visitation (TV story)|The Visitation]]'')
* Flip mentions that she once worked at the supermarket [[Fresh Goods]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curse of Davros (audio story)|The Curse of Davros]]'')
* The Doctor tells Flip that multiple versions of Peri exist. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Peri and the Piscon Paradox (audio story)|Peri and the Piscon Paradox]]'')
* The Doctor refers to the [[Garazone Bazaar]]. During his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]], he and [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley Pollard]] would visit the bazaar in the [[26th century]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion (audio story)|Sword of Orion]]'')


== External links ==
== External links ==
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Antidote to Oblivion was the one hundred and eighty-second story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Philip Martin and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Lisa Greenwood as Flip Jackson and Nabil Shaban as Sil.

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

Future Britain is bankrupt, its corporate owners facing financial ruin. Fortunately, the Universal Monetary Fund, and its slimy representative Sil, are willing to give its President a multi-billion credit bail-out... but terms and conditions apply, and Sil's proposed austerity measures go far beyond mere benefit cuts.

Responding to a distress call, the Doctor and his companion Flip land in a London whose pacified population has been driven largely underground. But the horrors down there in the dark are as nothing to the horrors that await them at ConCorp HQ, where a young biochemist in Sil's employ is working on a permanent solution to the nation's terminal unprofitability.

Because in the final account, Sil plans to make a killing...

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Part one[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Part two[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Part three[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Part four[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

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