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|audio series          = ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]''<br />Single Releases
|main character= [[Bernice Summerfield]]
|audio series number   = [[Series 1 (BFBS)|1]]
|featuring= [[Jason Kane]]  
|series release number = 2
|enemy= The [[Sunless]]
|adapted from           = Beyond the Sun (novel)
|setting=  
|main character         = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]
|writer= [[Matt Jones]]  
|featuring             = [[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[Emile Mars-Smith|Emile]], [[Tameka Vito|Tameka]]
|director= [[Gary Russell]]  
|enemy                 = [[Iranda|Miranda]]
|post production= [[Harvey Summers]]
|setting               = [[Ursu]] and [[Sunless homeworld]], [[2593]]
|publisher= Big Finish Productions  
|writer                 = Matt Jones (writer)
|cover=[[Mark Salwowski]]
|contributors          = Based on a book and adapted for audio by [[Matt Jones (writer)|Matt Jones]]  
|release date= [[September (releases)|September]] [[1998 (releases)|1998]]
|director               = [[Gary Russell]]
|format= 2 CDs  
|producer              = [[Gary Russell]]
|production code=
|sound                  = [[Harvey Summers]]
|isbn= ISBN 1-903654-34-3
|publisher             = Big Finish Productions
|prev= Oh No It Isn't! (audio story)  
|cover                 = [[Mark Salwowski]], [[Sarah Brown (artist)|Sarah Brown]]
|next= Walking to Babylon (audio story)|music = [[Harvey Summers]]}}
|music                  = [[Harvey Summers]]
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second [[Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series|Bernice Summerfield]] audio drama produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. This was the first audio to feature [[Jason Kane]], voiced by [[Stephen Fewell]]. This audio story also featured two former ''[[Doctor Who]]'' television actors: [[Anneke Wills]] and [[Sophie Aldred]].
|release date          = September 1998
|format                 = 2 CDs<br/>2 cassettes<br/>Download
|production code       = BFPCD2
|isbn                   = ISBN 978-1-90365-434-7 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-83868-475-4 (digital)
|prev                   = Oh No It Isn't! (audio story)
|next                   = Walking to Babylon (audio story)
|epcount                = 2
}}
'''''Beyond the Sun''''' was the second ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' audio drama produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. This was the first audio to feature [[Jason Kane]], voiced by [[Stephen Fewell]]. This audio story also featured two former ''[[Doctor Who]]'' television actors: [[Sophie Aldred]] and [[Anneke Wills]].


Adapted by the author of the [[Beyond the Sun (novel)|novel of the same name]] by its author [[Matt Jones]], this is the only Bernice Summerfield audio story that was adapted for audio by its author; all the other stories were adapted by [[Jacqueline Rayner]].  
Adapted from the [[Beyond the Sun (novel)|novel of the same name]] by its author [[Matt Jones (writer)|Matt Jones]], this is the only ''Bernice Summerfield'' audio story of the first season not to be adapted by [[Jacqueline Rayner]].


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
"You're on your own, Bernice"
"You're on your own, Bernice"


[[Bernice Summerfield]] has drawn the short straw. Not for her the pleasures of intergalactic conferences and highbrow lecture tours. Oh no. She's forced to take two overlooked freshers on their very first dig. And just when it seems things can't get any worse, her no-good ex-husband [[Jason Kane|Jason]] turns up, claiming that he is in deadly danger. Benny finally begins to believe his wild claims, but unfortunately only after he has been kidnapped from his hotel room.
[[Bernice Summerfield]] has drawn the short straw. Not for her the pleasures of intergalactic conferences and highbrow [[lecture]] tours. Oh no. She's forced to take two overlooked freshers on their very first dig. And just when it seems things can't get any worse, her no-good ex-husband [[Jason Kane|Jason]] turns up, claiming that he is in deadly danger. Benny finally begins to believe his wild claims, but unfortunately only after he has been kidnapped from his [[hotel]] room.


Feeling guilty, she sets out to rescue him. Well, let's face it, no one else is going to. Her only clue is a dusty artefact that Jason claimed was part of an ancient and powerful weapon. But Professor Bernice Summerfield PhD knows that's just silly nonsense. She's been an [[archaeologist]] long enough to know that lost alien civilisations do not leave their most powerful weapons lying around for any nutter to find. Do they?
Feeling guilty, she sets out to rescue him. Well, let's face it, no one else is going to. Her only clue is a dusty artefact that Jason claimed was part of an ancient and powerful weapon. But Professor Bernice Summerfield PhD knows that's just silly nonsense. She's been an [[archaeologist]] long enough to know that lost [[alien]] civilisations do not leave their most powerful [[weapon]]s lying around for any nutter to find. Do they?


Once again Benny is all that stands between Jason and his own mistakes, as she tries to prevent the wrong people acquiring this terrible and somewhat unlikely weapon - a weapon rumoured to have powers beyond the sun.  
Once again Benny is all that stands between Jason and his own mistakes, as she tries to prevent the wrong people acquiring this terrible and somewhat unlikely weapon — a weapon rumoured to have powers beyond the sun.


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
''to be added''
=== Part one ===
[[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] is digging for [[Chelonian]] artefacts on [[Apollox 4]] with two students, [[Emile Mars-Smith|Emile]] and [[Tameka Vito|Tameka]], when she is approached by [[Jason Kane|Jason]] for the first time in months and goes to [[dinner]] with him. He hands her a [[crystal]] [[figurine]] to look after, having been told that it is the key to a [[weapon]], and they have [[sex]] in Jason's [[hotel]] room. In the morning, Jason is apparently [[kidnapping|kidnapped]] whilst Benny is in the [[shower]] and she is [[arrest]]ed on suspicion of assisting him in smuggling artefacts and attempting to cover for him, but she is exonerated when they find no stolen data in the figurine.
 
Having learnt of an arms-dealing accomplice of Jason's from [[Ursu]] and that the figurine might originate from there, Benny heads to the [[planet]] with Emile and Tameka to do an [[orbital sweep]] before returning to [[St Oscar's University|St Oscar's]]. However, the [[spaceship]] is shot and Benny puts Emile and Tameka in an [[escape pod]] before the ship crashes with her and [[Jones (Beyond the Sun)|Jones]], the [[pilot]], still on board. Jones is killed by the [[Sunless]] and Benny reaches an [[Ursulan]] [[village]] where Emile and Tameka are being cared for by [[Scott (Beyond the Sun)|Scott]], who recognises the figurine as the type used in the Ursulan [[Bloom (Beyond the Sun)|Blooms]].
 
In the morning, Scott takes Benny, Emile and Tameka head to the city to meet [[Kitzinger]], an expert on the Blooms. They stay at [[Leon (Beyond the Sun)|Leon]]'s home and, alone at Leon's, Scott tells Emile about how he lives by a code of [[freedom]] and asks him if he would like to have sex, which he declines. Benny, Tameka and Leon visit Kitzinger at the [[hospital]] and, when she calls for security, Tameka knocks her out and they take her to Leon's. When she wakes up, she explains that the Sunless, from whose planet the Blooms were taken, have retaken the Blooms and must not get the figurine.
 
Scott tells Tameka how he was born from a Bloom but was one of nine siblings rather than the usual eight, with [[Iranda|Miranda]] being an anomaly. He shows her a [[photograph]] of her and she recognises her as Jason's accomplice.
 
=== Part two ===
At a [[party]], Miranda tells Benny that she worked with Jason to locate [[weapon]]s stolen from the Sunless homeworld and negotiate their return until he left her because of his conscience. She claims not to know about the figurine, but she makes a call which leads to twenty Sunless appearing with guns. Benny, Emile and Tameka escape in an armoured vehicle and return to Leon's apartment where they find evidence of a fight and Leon, Scott and Kitzinger missing. The Sunless [[arrest]] them and take them to Kitzinger's [[scout ship]].
 
Kitzinger takes the figurine, which she calls "the Visionary", and orders the execution of Emile and Tameka. Leon, who has been working for the Sunless, saves them and is locked up with the three of them as the ship travels to the Sunless homeworld. Upon arriving, they are moved to a cell in a crystalline building where Jason has been imprisoned and manage to escape, finding Scott and Kitzinger nearby. They incapacitate a Sunless and, putting on a uniform, shaving her head and putting on [[make-up]], Tameka impersonates one and steals the Visionary, giving it to Benny, but Miranda threatens to kill Jason unless Benny hands it over.
 
Benny gives the Visionary back to Miranda, who uses it to try to activate a Sunless weapon. However, Benny reveals that the figurine is actually only a representation of the Visionary and that the Visionary is Miranda herself; she is not an Ursulan and has been following a biological imperative to activate the device and will have to [[sacrifice]] herself to do so. Tameka drops her into the hole opened by the figurine and the dead sun is renewed, confirming that the device was not a weapon but a tool to restore the planet.
 
Heading back to Ursu, Tameka finds out that she is [[pregnancy|pregnant]] with Scott's child and Scott asks Emile to stay with him, but Emile plans to return to [[Emile Mars-Smith's father|his father]]. Benny declines Jason's offer of a drink or [[dinner]], but allows him to read the code of ethics that she wrote per Ursulan custom: "''Bernice Summerfield is a human being. And as such she is all too capable of being cruel and cowardly. And yet, while she is often caught up in violent events, she endeavours to remain a woman of peace.''"


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
* [[Bernice Summerfield]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]]
* [[Bernice Summerfield]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]]
* [[Miranda (Beyond the Sun)|Miranda]] - [[Sophie Aldred]]
* [[Iranda|Miranda]] - [[Sophie Aldred]]
* Doctor [[Kitzinger]] - [[Anneke Wills]]
* [[Kitzinger|Doctor Kitzinger]] - [[Anneke Wills]]
* [[Jason Kane]] - [[Stephen Fewell]]
* [[Jason Kane]] - [[Stephen Fewell]]
* [[Tameka Vito]] - [[Jane Burke]]
* [[Tameka Vito]] - [[Jane Burke]]
* [[Emile Mars-Smith]] - [[Lewis Davis]]
* [[Emile Mars-Smith]] - [[Lewis Davis]]
* [[Scott (Beyond the Sun)|Scott]] - [[Nicholas Pegg]]
* [[Scott (Beyond the Sun)|Scott]] - [[Nicholas Pegg]]
* [[Leon]] - [[Barnaby Edwards (actor)|Barnaby Edwards]]
* [[Leon (Beyond the Sun)|Leon]] - [[Barnaby Edwards]]
 
== Crew ==
 
* Cover Art - [[Mark Salwowski]]
* Producer & Director - [[Gary Russell]]
* Executive Producer - [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]]
* Music & Sound Design - [[Harvey Summers]]
* Writer - [[Matt Jones]]
* Theme Music - [[Alistair Lock]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
''to be added''
* Tameka drinks [[tequila]].
* [[Jones (Beyond the Sun)|Jones]] is the [[pilot]] of the [[spaceship]] to [[V14]].
* Emile has a [[nosebleed]] on the ship.
* [[Margaret (Beyond the Sun)|Margaret]] is an [[Ursulan]].
* [[Ursu]] has no [[caffeine]].
* Emile wears a [[rosary]].
* Tameka asks Kitzinger for a [[cigarette]].
* Jason and Miranda met on [[Denaria 7]].
* [[Samuel (Beyond the Sun)|Samuel]] is a leading figure in the [[New Administration]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This is [[Sophie Aldred]]'s only appearance in a Big Finish audio story playing a character other than [[Ace]].
* [[Stephen Fewell]] was recommended for the role of [[Jason Kane]] by [[Lisa Bowerman]].<ref name="BFC">''[[The Big Finish Companion: Volume 1]]''</ref>
* Lisa Bowerman had previously worked with Sophie Aldred when she appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[Survival]]'' as [[Karra]].
* [[Ursulan]]s are named by [[Matt Jones (writer)|Matt Jones]] after {{w|Ursula K. Le Guin}}.<ref name="BFC" />
* This audio story was recorded on [[6 August (production)|6]] and [[7 August (production)|7 August]] [[1998 (production)|1998]].
* This is the directorial debut of [[Gary Russell]] for [[Big Finish Productions]].
* The image of [[Bernice Summerfield]] on the original cover is drawn by [[Lee Sullivan]] to accompany [[Paul Cornell]]'s interview about the character in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''. A later cover replaced it with [[Paul Vyse]]'s "Professor Bernice Summerfield" logo.
* The 2nd edition CD booklet featured photos of [[Sophie Aldred]], [[Lisa Bowerman]], [[Stephen Fewell]] and [[Anneke Wills]]
* This audio story was recorded on [[6 August (production)|6]] and [[7 August (production)|7 August]] [[1998 (production)|1998]] at [[Crosstown Studios]] in [[London]].
 
=== Production errors ===
* [[Kitzinger]] was misspelt as "Katzinger" and [[Tameka Vito]] as "Tamiko Vito" in the CD booklet.
 
=== Cover gallery ===
<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true">
Beyond the Sun audio cover.jpg|CD cover with [[Lee Sullivan]]'s Benny, additionally mentioning the author [[Matt Jones (writer)|Matt Jones]]
BeyondTheSun cover without Benny.jpg|CD cover with [[Paul Vyse]]'s series logo, with [[Stephen Fewell]] as an added star
Beyond the Sun.jpg|Cover of the original novel
</gallery>


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Jason Kane makes his first appearance in the Benny audios. He last appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Eternity Weeps]]'' when he and Benny were divorced.
* Tameka and Benny talk about [[Sakkrat]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Highest Science (novel)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Highest Science (audio story)}})


== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{Bigfinish|releases/v/beyond-the-sun-42|Beyond the Sun}}
{{Bigfinish|releases/v/beyond-the-sun-42|Beyond the Sun}}
* {{Dwrefguide|benny02.htm|Beyond the Sun}}
{{dwrefguide|benny02.htm|Beyond the Sun}}
{{Audio stub}}
{{MusicBrainz|release-group/1db2ec1b-032e-4a58-837d-81f830642212}}
 
== Footnotes ==
{{reflist}}
 
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{{BFBS}}
{{TitleSort}}
{{TitleSort}}


[[Category:Bernice Summerfield stories]]
[[Category:Series 1 (BFBS) audio stories]]
[[Category:1998 audio stories]]
[[Category:1998 audio stories]]
[[Category:Stories set in 2593]]
[[Category:Bernice Summerfield sources]]
[[Category:Stories that use Alistair Lock's Bernice Summerfield theme]]
[[Category:Two part audio stories]]
[[Category:Bernice Summerfield audio stories]]
[[Category:Bernice Summerfield audio stories]]
[[Category:BFBS audio series]]
[[Category:Stories set in the 26th century]]

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Beyond the Sun was the second Bernice Summerfield audio drama produced by Big Finish Productions. This was the first audio to feature Jason Kane, voiced by Stephen Fewell. This audio story also featured two former Doctor Who television actors: Sophie Aldred and Anneke Wills.

Adapted from the novel of the same name by its author Matt Jones, this is the only Bernice Summerfield audio story of the first season not to be adapted by Jacqueline Rayner.

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

"You're on your own, Bernice"

Bernice Summerfield has drawn the short straw. Not for her the pleasures of intergalactic conferences and highbrow lecture tours. Oh no. She's forced to take two overlooked freshers on their very first dig. And just when it seems things can't get any worse, her no-good ex-husband Jason turns up, claiming that he is in deadly danger. Benny finally begins to believe his wild claims, but unfortunately only after he has been kidnapped from his hotel room.

Feeling guilty, she sets out to rescue him. Well, let's face it, no one else is going to. Her only clue is a dusty artefact that Jason claimed was part of an ancient and powerful weapon. But Professor Bernice Summerfield PhD knows that's just silly nonsense. She's been an archaeologist long enough to know that lost alien civilisations do not leave their most powerful weapons lying around for any nutter to find. Do they?

Once again Benny is all that stands between Jason and his own mistakes, as she tries to prevent the wrong people acquiring this terrible and somewhat unlikely weapon — a weapon rumoured to have powers beyond the sun.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

Benny is digging for Chelonian artefacts on Apollox 4 with two students, Emile and Tameka, when she is approached by Jason for the first time in months and goes to dinner with him. He hands her a crystal figurine to look after, having been told that it is the key to a weapon, and they have sex in Jason's hotel room. In the morning, Jason is apparently kidnapped whilst Benny is in the shower and she is arrested on suspicion of assisting him in smuggling artefacts and attempting to cover for him, but she is exonerated when they find no stolen data in the figurine.

Having learnt of an arms-dealing accomplice of Jason's from Ursu and that the figurine might originate from there, Benny heads to the planet with Emile and Tameka to do an orbital sweep before returning to St Oscar's. However, the spaceship is shot and Benny puts Emile and Tameka in an escape pod before the ship crashes with her and Jones, the pilot, still on board. Jones is killed by the Sunless and Benny reaches an Ursulan village where Emile and Tameka are being cared for by Scott, who recognises the figurine as the type used in the Ursulan Blooms.

In the morning, Scott takes Benny, Emile and Tameka head to the city to meet Kitzinger, an expert on the Blooms. They stay at Leon's home and, alone at Leon's, Scott tells Emile about how he lives by a code of freedom and asks him if he would like to have sex, which he declines. Benny, Tameka and Leon visit Kitzinger at the hospital and, when she calls for security, Tameka knocks her out and they take her to Leon's. When she wakes up, she explains that the Sunless, from whose planet the Blooms were taken, have retaken the Blooms and must not get the figurine.

Scott tells Tameka how he was born from a Bloom but was one of nine siblings rather than the usual eight, with Miranda being an anomaly. He shows her a photograph of her and she recognises her as Jason's accomplice.

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

At a party, Miranda tells Benny that she worked with Jason to locate weapons stolen from the Sunless homeworld and negotiate their return until he left her because of his conscience. She claims not to know about the figurine, but she makes a call which leads to twenty Sunless appearing with guns. Benny, Emile and Tameka escape in an armoured vehicle and return to Leon's apartment where they find evidence of a fight and Leon, Scott and Kitzinger missing. The Sunless arrest them and take them to Kitzinger's scout ship.

Kitzinger takes the figurine, which she calls "the Visionary", and orders the execution of Emile and Tameka. Leon, who has been working for the Sunless, saves them and is locked up with the three of them as the ship travels to the Sunless homeworld. Upon arriving, they are moved to a cell in a crystalline building where Jason has been imprisoned and manage to escape, finding Scott and Kitzinger nearby. They incapacitate a Sunless and, putting on a uniform, shaving her head and putting on make-up, Tameka impersonates one and steals the Visionary, giving it to Benny, but Miranda threatens to kill Jason unless Benny hands it over.

Benny gives the Visionary back to Miranda, who uses it to try to activate a Sunless weapon. However, Benny reveals that the figurine is actually only a representation of the Visionary and that the Visionary is Miranda herself; she is not an Ursulan and has been following a biological imperative to activate the device and will have to sacrifice herself to do so. Tameka drops her into the hole opened by the figurine and the dead sun is renewed, confirming that the device was not a weapon but a tool to restore the planet.

Heading back to Ursu, Tameka finds out that she is pregnant with Scott's child and Scott asks Emile to stay with him, but Emile plans to return to his father. Benny declines Jason's offer of a drink or dinner, but allows him to read the code of ethics that she wrote per Ursulan custom: "Bernice Summerfield is a human being. And as such she is all too capable of being cruel and cowardly. And yet, while she is often caught up in violent events, she endeavours to remain a woman of peace."

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Production errors[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cover gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Big Finish Companion: Volume 1
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