The year is 16127. Four decades have passed since the colonists of Nerva Beacon returned to repopulate the once-devastated Earth — and the chosen few are finding the business of survival tough.

Far beyond the sterile safety of sanitised Nerva City, transmat scientist Roger Buchman has brought his family to an island surrounded by what they once called Loch Lomond, hoping to re-establish the colony he was forced to abandon many years before.

But something else resides in the Loch. A pestilent alien infestation that the Doctor, beaming in from Nerva City, remembers only too well from his time aboard the Beacon...

The Wirrn are back. And they're hungry.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Inchfad is the northernmost colony in Scotland.
Flip mentions Madonna, Vanilla Ice, Foreigner and M.O.P.
Nerva City was built on the former site of New York City.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Before release, and indeed during recording, this story was titled The Prodigal Wirrn.^[1]
This story is unusual in that it does not feature the TARDIS. It was the first such story in the main range since AUDIO: LIVE 34 in September 2005.
After AUDIO: Night Thoughts, this is the second Big Finish audio drama released in the main range to take place predominantly on a remote Scottish island.
This audio drama was recorded on 21 and 22 June 2011 at The Moat Studios.
Subscribers whose subscriptions included this story also received the audio short story Breadcrumbs.
This story is set between The Trial of a Time Lord and Time and the Rani.

Gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]

Original CD cover art.
Textless cover art.
CD centre fold art.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Fourth Doctor previously encountered the Wirrn on the Nerva Beacon (TV: The Ark in Space) whereas the Eighth Doctor would later do so on Micawber's World (PROSE: Placebo Effect) and on Carista VII in the GalSec Territory. (AUDIO: Wirrn Dawn)
Roger Buchman initially believes that the Doctor and Flip are colonists from GalSec. (TV: The Sontaran Experiment; AUDIO: Wirrn Dawn, Project Infinity)
Flip reminds the Doctor that she has already died once. (AUDIO: The Fourth Wall)
The Doctor once again claims that humans are "indomitable." (TV: The Ark in Space, Utopia)
Flip mentions the Daleks (AUDIO: The Curse of Davros) and the Porcians. (AUDIO: The Fourth Wall)

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

Official Wirrn Isle page at bigfinish.com
DisContinuity for Wirrn Isle at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide

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	Frobisher	The Holy Terror • The Maltese Penguin

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	"Jamie"	City of Spires • The Wreck of the Titan • Legend of the Cybermen

	Flip	The Curse of Davros • The Fourth Wall • Wirrn Isle • Antidote to Oblivion • The Brood of Erys • Scavenger • Vortex Ice • Cortex Fire

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	Mel	The Fires of Vulcan • Bang-Bang-a-Boom! • Flip-Flop • Unregenerate! • Red • We Are The Daleks • The Warehouse • Terror of the Sontarans

	Ace	The Fearmonger • The Genocide Machine • Dust Breeding • Colditz • The Rapture • 1963: The Assassination Games • You Are the Doctor and Other Stories (You Are the Doctor • Come Die With Me • The Grand Betelgeuse Hotel • Dead to the World) • The Grey Man of the Mountain

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v • e Wirrn stories

For the purposes of this list, a "Wirrn story" is one in which one living, authentic Wirrn plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story.

Television	The Ark in Space

Audio	Race Memory • Wirrn Dawn • Wirrn Isle • Hosts of the Wirrn

Prose	Placebo Effect • Frozen Beauty

Complete list of appearances

↑ The Big Finish Podcast: Brand New Competition & Listeners' Emails. July #2 Timestamp: 12:17

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+|image           = Wirrn Isle cover.jpg
-|name = Wirrn Isle
+|range           = Main Range
-|image = Wirrn Isle cover.jpg
+|number in range = 158
-|series = [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|Big Finish ''Doctor Who'' audio stories]]
+|series          = ''[[Main Range]]''
-|number = 158
+|number          = 158
-|doctor = Sixth Doctor
+|doctor          = Sixth Doctor
-|companions = [[Flip Jackson|Flip]]
+|companions      = [[Flip Jackson|Flip]]
-|enemy = The [[Wirrn]]<br />[[Iron Buchman]]
+|enemy           = {{il|[[Wirrn]]|[[Iron Buchman]]}}
-|setting = [[Inchfad]], [[Ardlui]] and [[Loch Lomond]] off the coast of [[Scotland]], [[16127]]<br />[[Nerva City]], [[North America]], [[Earth]], [[16127]]
+|setting         = {{il|[[Inchfad Isle]], [[Aldochlay]], [[Loch Lomond]], and [[Nerva City]], [[16127]]}}
-|writer = [[William Gallagher]]
+|writer          = William Gallagher
-|director = [[Nicholas Briggs]]
+|director        = [[Nicholas Briggs]]
-|publisher = Big Finish Productions
+|producer        = [[David Richardson]]
-|release date = [[March (releases)|March]] [[2012 (releases)|2012]]
+|music           = [[Simon Robinson]]
-|format = 2 CDs, 4 parts
+|sound           = [[Simon Robinson]]
-|next =The Emerald Tiger (audio story)
+|cover           = [[Simon Holub]]
-|prev = The Fourth Wall (audio story)
+|publisher       = Big Finish Productions
+|release date    = March 2012
 |production code = 7C/NAC
-|isbn = ISBN 978-1-84435-606-5}}{{Audio stub}}
+|isbn            = ISBN 978-1-84435-606-5 (physical); ISBN 978-1-78575-706-8 (digital)
-'''''Wirrn Isle''''' is the third story in the 2012 [[Sixth Doctor]] audio trilogy.
+|format          = 2 CDs<br/>Download
+|prev            = The Fourth Wall (audio story)
+|next            = The Emerald Tiger (audio story)
+|epcount = 4
+}}{{audio stub}}
+'''''Wirrn Isle''''' was the one hundred and fifty-eighth story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[William Gallagher]] and featured [[Colin Baker]] as the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Lisa Greenwood]] as [[Flip Jackson]].
 == Publishers summary ==
 The year is [[16127]]. Four decades have passed since the colonists of [[Nerva Beacon]] returned to repopulate the once-devastated [[Earth]] — and the chosen few are finding the business of survival tough.
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 Far beyond the sterile safety of sanitised [[Nerva City]], [[transmat]] scientist [[Roger Buchman]] has brought his family to an island surrounded by what they once called [[Loch Lomond]], hoping to re-establish the colony he was forced to abandon many years before.
-But something else resides in the Loch. A pestilent alien infestation that the [[Sixth Doctor|Doctor]], beaming in from Nerva City, remembers only too well from his time aboard the Beacon...
+But something else resides in the Loch. A pestilent alien infestation that [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]], beaming in from Nerva City, remembers only too well from his time aboard the Beacon...
 The [[Wirrn]] are back. And they're hungry.
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 * [[Iron Buchman]] - [[Rikki Lawton]]
 * [[Sheer Jawn]] - [[Dan Starkey]]
-* [[Dare]] - [[Helen Goldwyn]]
+* [[Dare (Wirrn Isle)|Dare]] - [[Helen Goldwyn]]
 * [[Paul Dessay]] - [[Glynn Sweet]]
-== References ==
+== Worldbuilding ==
-* The [[human]] colonists on the [[Nerva Beacon]] returned to [[Earth]] and began the recolonisation in [[16087]].
-* A ceremony called the "Olympic" is being held in [[Nerva City]] in [[16127]]. However, the fragmentary historical records state that the Olympic is held every fourth of a year instead of once every four years, and it is no longer associated with sports.
-* [[Wirrn]] mucous, the slime trail left by adult Wirrn, is used as a food source by the Nerva colonists. It is jokingly called "forage porridge."
 * Inchfad is the northernmost colony in [[Scotland]].
-* There is a [[transmat]] substation on Ardlui, located to the south of Inchfad.
-* Roger, Veronica and Toasty Buchman all independently mistake the Doctor and Flip for father and daughter.
 * Flip mentions [[Madonna]], [[Vanilla Ice]], [[Foreigner]] and [[M.O.P]].
-* More than four hundred Wirrn were trapped under the surface of Loch Lomond when it froze over twenty years earlier.
-* While Roger was playing with the transmat fifteen years earlier, he accidentally beamed his son Iron into a Wirrn under the surface of Loch Lomond, causing them to merge at the molecular level. He planted Iron's red jumper on the ice so that Veronica would find it.
 * Nerva City was built on the former site of [[New York City]].
-* Sheer Jawn is Toasty's biological father.
-* The Nerva Beacon is still in orbit of Earth.
-[[File:Wirrn Isle.jpg|thumb|Textless cover art]]
 == Notes ==
+* Before release, and indeed during recording, this story was titled ''The Prodigal Wirrn''.<ref>[[The Big Finish Podcast]]: [https://www.bigfinish.com/podcasts/v/brand-new-competition-listener-s-emails-july-2 Brand New Competition & Listeners' Emails. July #2] Timestamp: 12:17</ref>
 * This story is unusual in that it does not feature [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. It was the first such story in the main range since [[AUDIO]]: ''[[LIVE 34 (audio story)|LIVE 34]]'' in September 2005.
 * After [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Night Thoughts (audio story)|Night Thoughts]]'', this is the second Big Finish audio drama released in the main range to take place predominantly on a remote Scottish island.
-* This audio drama was recorded on [[21 June (production)|21]] and [[22 June (production)|22 June]] 2011.
+* This audio drama was recorded on [[21 June (production)|21]] and [[22 June (production)|22 June]] [[2011 (production)|2011]] at [[The Moat Studios]].
 * Subscribers whose subscriptions included this story also received the audio short story ''[[Breadcrumbs (short story)|Breadcrumbs]]''.
+* This story is set between ''[[Season 23 (Doctor Who 1963)|The Trial of a Time Lord]]'' and ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]''.
+== Gallery ==
+<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true" widths="250">
+Wirrn Isle cover.jpg|Original CD cover art.
+Wirrn Isle.jpg|Textless cover art.
+File:Centre_Fold_Wirrn_Isle.jpg|CD centre fold art.
+</gallery>
 == Continuity ==
-* The [[Fourth Doctor]] previously encountered the Wirrn on the Nerva Beacon ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]'') whereas the [[Eighth Doctor]] would later do so on [[Micawber's World]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Placebo Effect (novel)|Placebo Effect]]'') and on Carista VII in the [[GalSec|GalSec Territory]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Wirrn Dawn (audio story)|Wirrn Dawn]]'').
+* The [[Fourth Doctor]] previously encountered the [[Wirrn]] on the [[Nerva Beacon]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]'') whereas the [[Eighth Doctor]] would later do so on [[Micawber's World]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Placebo Effect (novel)|Placebo Effect]]'') and on [[Carista VII]] in the [[GalSec|GalSec Territory]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Wirrn Dawn (audio story)|Wirrn Dawn]]'')
-* Roger Buchman initially believes that the Doctor and Flip are colonists from GalSec. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)|The Sontaran Experiment]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Wirrn Dawn (audio story)|Wirrn Dawn]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Infinity (audio story)|Project Infinity]]'')
+* [[Roger Buchman]] initially believes that [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Flip Jackson|Flip]] are colonists from [[GalSec]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)|The Sontaran Experiment]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Wirrn Dawn (audio story)|Wirrn Dawn]]'', ''[[Project Infinity (audio story)|Project Infinity]]'')
 * Flip reminds the Doctor that she has already died once. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fourth Wall (audio story)|The Fourth Wall]]'')
-* The Doctor once again claims that humans are "indomitable." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
+* The Doctor once again claims that humans are "indomitable." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]'', ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
-* Flip mentions the [[Dalek]]s ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curse of Davros (audio story)|The Curse of Davros]]'') and the [[Porcian]]s ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fourth Wall (audio story)|The Fourth Wall]]'').
+* Flip mentions the [[Dalek]]s ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curse of Davros (audio story)|The Curse of Davros]]'') and the [[Porcian]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fourth Wall (audio story)|The Fourth Wall]]'')
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