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|companions      = [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]]
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|featuring      = Romana II
|enemy          = [[Neverperson|Neverpeople]]
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|writer          = [[Alan Barnes]]
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|enemy          = [[Sentris]]
|writer          = Alan Barnes
|director        = [[Gary Russell]]
|director        = [[Gary Russell]]
|producer        = [[Gary Russell]] and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]]
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|publisher      = Big Finish Productions
|publisher      = Big Finish Productions
|release date    = [[June (releases)|June]] [[2002 (releases)|2002]]
|release date    = 12 July 2002
|format          = 2 episodes on 2 CDs
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|production code = 8L
|production code = 8L
|isbn            = ISBN 1-903654-62-9
|isbn            = ISBN 978-1-90365-462-0 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-84435-738-3 (digital)
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'''''Neverland''''' was the thirty-third of [[Big Finish Productions]]' [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly audio stories]]. It featured the [[Eighth Doctor]] played by [[Paul McGann]] and [[Charlotte Pollard]] played by [[India Fisher]], with [[Lalla Ward]] making an appearance as [[Romana II|Lady President Romana]]. This story concluded the arc of stories beginning with ''[[Invaders from Mars]]'' concerning the paradox of Charley Pollard's surviving the ''[[R101]]''{{'}}s destruction. ''Neverland'' was one of three audio stories to feature Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor alongside Romana as played by Lalla Ward. The others were the audio adaptation ''[[Shada (audio story)|Shada]]'', which itself was an extended release of the [[Shada (webcast)|webcast]] of the same name, and ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]''.
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'''''Neverland''''' was the thirty-third story in [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'s [[Main Range|monthly range]]. It was written by [[Alan Barnes]] and featured [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[India Fisher]] as [[Charlotte Pollard]], [[Lalla Ward]] as [[Romana II]], [[Anthony Keetch]] as [[Vansell]] and [[Don Warrington]] as [[Rassilon]].
 
This story concluded the arc of stories beginning with ''[[Invaders from Mars (audio story)|Invaders from Mars]]'' concerning the paradox of Charley Pollard's surviving the ''[[R101]]''{{'}}s destruction.
 
''Neverland'' was one of three audio stories to feature Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor alongside Romana as played by Lalla Ward. The others were the audio adaptation ''[[Shada (audio story)|Shada]]'', which itself was an extended release of the [[Shada (webcast)|webcast]] of the same name, and ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]''.


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
[[Web of Time|The Web of Time]] is stretched to breaking. History is leaking like a sieve. In the [[Capitol|Citadel of Gallifrey]], the Time Lords fear the end of everything that is, everything that was... everything that will be.
The [[Web of Time]] is stretched to breaking. [[History]] is leaking like a sieve. In the [[Capitol|Citadel of Gallifrey]], the [[Time Lord]]s fear the end of everything that is, everything that was... everything that will be.


The Doctor holds the Time Lords' only hope — but exactly what lengths will the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] go to in their efforts to retrieve something important from within [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]? What has caused the [[Imperiatrix]] [[Romana#Alternate versions|Romanadvoratrelundar]] to declare war on the rest of creation? And can an old nursery rhyme about a monster called [[Zagreus]] really be coming true?
The Doctor holds the Time Lords' only hope — but exactly what lengths will the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] go to in their efforts to retrieve something important from within [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]? What has caused the [[Imperiatrix]] [[Romana#Alternate versions|Romanadvoratrelundar]] to declare war on the rest of creation? And can an old nursery rhyme about a monster called [[Zagreus]] really be coming true?
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== Plot ==
== Plot ==
=== Part 1 ===


Historical events are being recited; but the narrators can no longer retain the proper memories, and are going mad. Elsewhere, the Doctor and Charley are talking about their recent victory over the Daleks, who remain caught in a time loop; the Doctor expects the Time Lords under President Romana will eventually release them, as history sometimes hangs on their actions. It won’t be soon, however; Romana has her own score to settle with the Daleks. Meanwhile, a fleet of Battle TARDISes materialises around the Doctor’s TARDIS. He recalls that this happened once before in recent memory; this time, it seems they are coming for him and for Charley. Further, Romana is among them, accompanied by Celestial Intervention Agency Co-ordinator Vansell. He tries to escape again, but one of the other ships fires temporal torpedoes; if he dematerialises, they will snatch his ship from the Vortex, and if he stays put, the torpedoes will strike and freeze his TARDIS—and everyone aboard—in time for a few centuries, allowing the Time Lords opportunity to get inside. Just before the torpedoes strike, a wave of time distortion sweeps by, tearing seconds from the web of Time; the Doctor rides the wave and escapes the Battle TARDISes via a complicated path.
=== Part one ===
 
A mechanical voice reads out key dates in the [[Humanian Era]], including the crash of the [[R101]]. This voice is overlapped by a female voice, which reads out key dates in the [[Sensorian Era|Sensorian era]]. The first voice is still going, and lists dates and events in the [[Rassilon Era|Rassilon era]], but when it gets to the [[The Time of the Daleks (audio story)|Dalek Fleet being captured in the vortex]], it begins breaking up, and screams that it "can't remember".
 
In the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]], the [[Eighth Doctor|Doctor]] explains to [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]] that although the [[Dalek]]s are trapped in a paradox, a [[Temporal pocket|time pocket]], they may still be brought back by the [[Time Lord]]s to avoid disruption to the timeline. They are in the [[Acteon Galaxy|Acteon galaxy]], which the Doctor describes, saying that he hasn't been there since he "was an old man. Probably". Then, on the scanner, they see a large number of grey [[battle TARDIS]]es, and realise they are there for them. Meanwhile, [[Vansell]] tells [[Romana II|Romana]] that they have located the Doctor, and are blocking entrances to the vortex across 5 million consecutive years. The [[Time Station|time station]] they are in heads towards them. The Doctor receives a message ordering them to power down their TARDIS, which the Doctor ignores, and is shot at by time [[Time torpedo|torpedoes]]. However, a [[Time slippage|time slip]] hits them, which sends their TARDIS through time.
 
When it's over, the Doctor asks Charley how long they've been travelling together, and Charley guesses it to be about six months. The Doctor wishes her a happy birthday, and says she's going to an amazing party, inside the [[Jovian fold|Jovian Fold]]. Acting excited, he says he won't be attending, and will pick her up in a year. The Doctor will go and see the Time Lords in the meantime, and try to sort out the paradox of Charley's existence. Charley doesn't want to hide away, saying that it's time to stop dreaming, time to grow up, but the Doctor doesn't want to give up on her. She hits the [[fast return switch]].
 
[[Kurst]] and [[Levith]], [[Celestial Intervention Agency|CIA]] agents, enter the TARDIS, which has been frozen for a few hundred years. The Doctor awakens and mutters about adventures he's had, and they take him for his "date with the President". They use a time-space converter to wake up Charley. The Doctor comes to his senses in a metal room in a 7C Supra-Orbital Time Station, where he teases Vansell about their time in the [[Time Lord Academy|Academy]]. Vansell lists the many occasions on which Vansell has been traced to in different time periods after her death. Romana gives her word that no injustice will be carried out against Charley.


Once free, the Doctor presents Charley with an invitation to a rather extravagant party—a thousand-year party inside a pocket universe—allegedly so that she can celebrate her birthday. She sees it for what it is—a transparent attempt to get her off the TARDIS for a time—and deduces that he is going to find out what the Time Lords want.  She knows the answer already: her rescue from death on the R101 airship has somehow broken the web of time. Determined to be mature and do the right thing, and grateful for the six extra months the Doctor has given her, she hits the fast return switch, sending the TARDIS back into the path of the time torpedoes.
Charley is prepared for a procedure by the CIA agents while Vansell continues interrogating the Doctor about recent time slips. This leads the Doctor to explain the theory of [[Anti-time|Anti-Time]], which he doesn't believe in, but is convinced when Romana shows him the time slips and disruptions originating from the [[1930s]]. They describe Charley as patient zero; a rip in the fabric of space-time. Time is "running out", and [[the Matrix]] cannot cope. The Doctor is standing on a [[Matrix door|door to the Matrix]], which he enters unwillingly.


Three hundred frozen years later, the TARDIS is invaded by CIA agents Levith and Kurst.  They transfer the awakening Doctor to President Romana’s TARDIS: a massive Time Station, similar to the one aboard which his sixth incarnation stood trial. In his absence, they install Charley into a space-time converter device while she is still disoriented.  Aboard the Time Station, Co-ordinator Vansell tries and fails to interrogate the Doctor, who invokes the Archetryx Convention and demands a fair trial.   Romana assures him that Charley is safe; she explains that the time distortions appear to be caused by particles of anti-time, which has always been considered both theoretical and absurd, but now seems to be real. The Doctor doesn’t believe it at first; he recounts a legend of Rassilon, which states that Rassilon pinned creation down to one continuity when creating the Eye of Harmony, and in the process created both positive time and a universe of anti-time.  Such a universe would have no continuity—no past, no future, just a chaotic present. He doesn’t believe it exists, but the strain on the Web of Time says otherwise; it is near to breaking, and many changes to history have been noted, all stemming back to his rescue of Charley.  Her rescue created a living gateway through which anti-time can flow from the mirror universe.  Gallifrey, a bastion of positive time, remains as the universe’s last stable point, and Romana has given the Matrix over to retaining a memory of the true history of the universe—and even this is failing.  To prove her point, she forces the Doctor through the Eighth Door into the Matrix to see a projection of what is to come.
Inside the Matrix, he sees the future if the slips continue: [[Gallifrey]] burning, [[Mount Lung|Mount Cadon]] obscured by smoke. He meets an old man, who tells him Gallifrey is dead, and the people who are left alive have turned cruel. This is now the [[Zagreus|Empire of Zagreus]]. He sees [[Imperiatrix|Romana as an Imperiatrix]], who has become cruel. She takes the [[Dalek Emperor]] and it's fleet as prisoners. as prisoners as they beg to be released. The Imperiatrix-Romana destroys the Daleks. The Doctor protests that this isn't right, and an angry mob begins to attack him. He is brought out of the matrix projection.


The Doctor finds himself on a ruined version of Gallifrey.  A sad, elderly man tells him this was once Gallifrey, but is now the empire of Zagreus, the mythical monster from Gallifreyan nursery rhymes.  In the former Panopticon, Romana—now ruling as Imperiatrix—presents to the people the trapped Daleks, who beg for mercy and freedom.  Instead, she obliterates them completely, removing them from history.  The Doctor protests, and the crowd turns on him.  Vansell pulls him out of the projection, bringing him back to the Time Station. He is shaken by what he has seen, but still refuses to allow Romana to return Charley to the R101 to die; but Romana tells him it would make no difference anyway, as anti-time is already present.  Instead, they will track the anti-time backward to its source and stop it there, in the other universe—and to do this, they will use Charley as a gateway. Already she is inside the Doctor’s TARDIS, hooked into the proton accelerator which will transform her into the living gateway she is.  Kurst activates the machine, sending her writhing out of time and space.  It’s only temporary, however, and Romana intends to free her when the anti-time is stopped; therefore the Doctor allows it.  Levith informs them the gate is open, and the Time Station begins to follow the TARDIS through.  However, the TARDIS console overloads, causing the ship to be pulled out of control through the breach into mirror universe, and the Time Station follows.
The Doctor still swears he will protect Charley, despite the projection. Romana suggests they follow the time distortion to its source, and Vansell relishes in adding that they'll destroy it. They must go through the space time breach using Charley, in order to enter the universe of Anti-Time, which Vansell claims to have ancient records about. Meanwhile, the agents finish installing the space-time converter, and Charley wakes. They explain they are using a sub-protonic converter to allow people to travel using her into another universe, but that it may change her.


Charley reverts to normal as the power level drops, though she is shaken.  Levith and Kurst discover that the sensors are not producing proper data, and they cannot isolate their temporal co-ordinates—it seems they are truly outside the universe of time. Still, they have landed somewhere; Levith takes the others outside, and sets up a beacon for the Time Station.  Meanwhile the station’s sensors are likewise useless; it’s not a mechanical problem, as the Doctor points out, but a problem of the frame of reference. Their sensors are calibrated to require the passage of time, and there is nothing like that here. Only one fixed point can be found: a nearby planetoid, from which the beacon is emanating. The station approaches, but the beacon vanishes, indicating it is being affected by time distortion.
Romana assures the Doctor that the changes to Charley will be reverted, and says she's sure Vansell will turn a blind eye and allow them to leave after their mission is complete. Vansell agrees. Charley, stabilised inside an acceleration field (created by the machinery mentioned earlier) inside the Doctor's TARDIS, will be used to find the coordinates of the source of the breach. The gate of [[Zagreus]] is opened, and Charley screams. Suddenly, things go wrong, and the Doctor's TARDIS is sucked through. Soon, so is the Time Station.


Charley and Kurst see a forest of metal spikes nearby, and Charley goes to explore while the others work to repair the beacon. Something speaks to her, using her own voice, and she meets an apparition that looks like her.  More phantoms appear, calling themselves the “people who never were”.  Kurst and Levith fire on the phantoms, and Charley escapes, but the phantoms reappear and consume Kurst, devouring his life energy.  As Charley and Levith flee, the ground splits ahead of them, and the TARDIS—with the beacon—tumbles into the chasm.  Aboard the station, the Doctor realises that the TARDIS they are detecting is not his TARDIS. Defying Vansell, he seizes control and pilots the station to the surface, unwittingly allowing it to crash into the metal forest. Vansell takes a concussion in the crash; in his delirium he quotes a poem about Zagreus. The Doctor notes it, and wonders why this mythical figure keeps coming up today.
The Doctor's TARDIS has arrived. Charley whimpers as Levith explains that Charley was reverting to her natural state as the TARDIS broke through. The power to the proton accelerator was cut off, and Charley stabilised. Kurst unties Charley as Levith sees that the TARDIS cannot definitively say where they are: they arrived in the universe of anti-time ([[antiverse]]). The Doctor, meanwhile, taunts Vansell as they make it through to the antiverse with some other Time Lords who were with them in the station, including the [[Undercardinal (Neverland)|Undercardinal]]. Looking out, they see constant motion- their theories of Anti-Time were correct. However, there is a single fixed point: a planetoid. Clearly it doesn't belong there. From this planet emanates the trans-temporal beacon Levith had set up, which the sensors pick up.


When Vansell recovers, he is furious, and threatens to remove the Doctor from history, until the phantom in Charley’s form arrives. He deduces its nature as a being of anti-time, a “Never-person”, and is shocked to learn it has been to his universe, where it consumed Lucy and Richard Martin. Other Never-People appear and begin to devour the time energy pouring from the station’s damaged Time Rotor.  Vansell tries to chase them off, until the lead phantom tells him that what he seeks is in a grotto nearby. Vansell immediately leaves, and Romana persuades the Doctor to follow, telling him that the station has the power to repair itself.  Nevertheless, she hasn’t told him everything; and as Vansell well knows, the Doctor won’t like the truth.
Exploring the planetoid, Levith sees a forest, which Charley says are just metal spikes. The beacon malfunctions due to time disruption as Charley runs towards the spikes. She hears laughter, and then a voice is a distorted form of her own voice and that has her memories. Turning around, she sees this person looks like her, too. She describes a time Charley was a child and got lost in the woods, and then tells her that she has been following her since France. Her people are everyone who never was, never died, never lived, and they want her to join them. The agents hear Charley's scream and hold off the collection of ghosts ([[Neverpeople]]) while Charley escapes. The collection kills Kurst, saying that the Time Lords made them, and so they can unmake Kurst.


Outside, Charley and Levith join the group, and Levith makes her report. The Doctor examines the metal forest and determines its spikes to be artificial; even the dirt consists of metal shavings. As an acid rain begins to fall, Charley and the Time Lords take shelter in a cave, but soon find it is actually an artificial corridor. Proceeding into the corridor, they find roundels on the walls, and a vast chamber with a hexagonal platform—it would seem, then, that the entire planetoid is a crashed TARDIS, with its internal structure mapped to the outside.
Levith and Charley run for the TARDIS, but the beacon and the TARDIS have been swallowed by the ground, which cracked open. The Doctor and Vansell argue over what to do, and the Doctor triggers the Time Ship to go towards where the beacon was- against orders. The Neverpeople reappear, asking Charley to join them again, but then the Time Station comes towards them. Romana threatens to restrain the Doctor. The station crashes against the metal forest, and the distorted neverperson-Charley voice makes herself known. The Neverpeople feed on the time energy in the time station, becoming more solid. Romana tells them off. The guards fire at them, but it doesn't do anything.


Vansell manages to feed in enough power to activate a few systems, and a hologram appears. The Doctor recognises it as the old man from the Matrix projection.  The hologram announces its various titles—among them, conqueror of the Yssgaroth and First President of Gallifrey—and declares himself to be Rassilon. The Doctor knows him to be long-dead, with his tomb in the Death Zone—but the hologram claims the legends are true. He accidentally created this anti-time universe upon establishing the Eye of Harmony, and battled the monster Zagreus. Though he defeated Zagreus, his TARDIS was wrecked, and he was trapped, but he lies in wait inside a Zero Cabinet nearby—and now his descendants and heirs will take him home.
Charley-Neverperson says that the truth about Zagreus, the thing which Vansell came here for, is here. Vansell orders the guards to lower their weapons and follow him, but Romana regains control quickly, and they follow her and the Doctor out. Charley and Levith reach the time station, reuniting with the Doctor and Romana. Vansell questions the Doctor's loyalty and motives, though Romana seems unswayed by his probing. They all go into the metal forest, and the Doctor finds it strange. Acid rain begins falling, and they take cover.


=== Part 2 ===
Charley realises that the area that they're in is bigger on the inside than on the outside- the planetoid is actually the wreck of a TARDIS. Romana admits that she had suspected it all along. Vansell investigates the area- the console room- and they find a spark of life. Just enough to form a hologram of the old man the Doctor met in the Matrix: [[Matrix Rassilon|Rassilon (of the Matrix)]]! He will not rest until Zagreus is destroyed. He explains his story, and how it ended with his paranoia that he may have brought into being, by constructing the one true timeline, its opposite: Anti-Time. A poison he feared would spill into the main timeline. He found the 'Neverworld' and has been battling Anti-Time, but that he has always hoped that his [[Time Lords]] would find him and take him home.


The Doctor remains sceptical, but Vansell explains that Zagreus, with Rassilon, appears in the legends of many worlds, with similar events recorded.  He suggests that the tomb of Rassilon on Gallifrey is false, with Rassilon still alive in the Zero Cabinet—and poised to lead Gallifrey to greater achievements if returned.  The Neverperson in the form of Charley returns to negotiate the release of the Zero Cabinet; it opts to negotiate only with Vansell, who is more than willing to cooperate.  In exchange, the Neverpeople want freedom to explore the timestream of the normal universe in order to gather the temporal energy on which they subsist.  They demand, as a show of faith, that one of the Time Lords remain behind until the pact is finalised.  The Doctor objects, as this will mean leaving Charley here as a continual gateway—but Vansell agrees with the Neverperson, and nominates Romana to stay behind.  The Doctor realises that all along, Vansell has intended a coup, with the aim of installing Rassilon in power once again—and of course placing himself at Rassilon’s side.  Vansell’s guards return the Doctor, Charley, and Romana to the surface, where the ground disgorges the Cabinet; the Neverpeople transport Romana back under the surface.  The Doctor stumbles into the chasm, and despite his protests, Vansell lets him fall in, before escorting Charley and the Cabinet back to the Time Station.  His guards bring the converter device to the bridge, and place Charley inside.
=== Part two ===


Romana is taken to an amphitheatre filled with Neverpeople. The Charley phantom introduces two of them as Rorvan and Taris, friends from Romana’s childhood, but she cannot remember them.  The phantom questions her about a device called the Oubliette of Eternity. The device, belonging to the CIA, is a molecular dispersion chamber, used to remove criminals from all of time and space by dispersing their molecules through the timestream.  The Doctor arrives and overhears this, and realises that the Neverpeople are former Time Lords who were destroyed in the Oubliette; they somehow arrived here. This is why Romana cannot recall Rorvan and Taris; after their dispersal, they had never existed in the first place. Their crime was accessing classified documents, and for this they were erased.  Meanwhile, the Neverperson with Charley’s form reveals that she is Sentris, the 217th (and now former) Co-ordinator of the CIA.  Once responsible for overseeing what she believed to be only very rare uses of the Oubliette, she was appalled when the records in a time-protected vault revealed that she herself had overseen over two hundred such executions—which she now could not remember, because the victims never existed.  In severe guilt, she committed suicide by leaping into the Oubliette, but found herself here, with her former victims.  Thus she leads them toward the normal universe for revenge.
Romana admits that this is why they really came, and the group discuss the Zagreus nursery rhyme as a metaphor for what is happening to the web of time. Vansell and Levith tell the story of a hero who sought out battle with Zagreus. The hero's name? Azalon, also called Razlon, or Ra. Before Ra leaves home, he orders all records of his quest destroyed, to avoid undermining his utopia. This perfectly mirrors Rassilon's tale. Vansell wants to resurrect Rassilon, and says proof of the tale being true lies in a Zero Cabinet, somewhere on the planetoid (TARDIS). The Charley-Neverperson returns, offering to negotiate terms: the Neverpeople are allowed to survive in tandem with the main timeline, and they will help them resurrect Rassilon by giving them the Casket of Rassilon, and the time station.


Romana insists that the Oubliette is a relic of the past, and that Gallifrey will not forget the injustice; but Sentris reveals that the CIA continues to use it to this day, although of course no one would know.  She blames Vansell as well as Romana, but more than that, she blames Rassilon for establishing this system.  The Doctor realises that there were no personalities in anti-time before Rassilon established the Oubliette, meaning that the Zagreus legend is a lie, and therefore Rassilon is most likely in his tomb in the Death Zone—which means the Cabinet is something else entirely, and it is on its way to Gallifrey.  Meanwhile, on the now-repaired Time Station, Charley realises that Vansell’s voice has become distorted, indicating he is infected with anti-time, and is being manipulated.  Under his orders, Levith—although she too realises something is wrong—activates the device; just before Charley is transformed again, she realises that Levith, too, is infected. On the planetoid, Sentris confirms the Doctor’s fears: the Cabinet contains a huge quantity of anti-time energy.  As well, though Gallifrey is under quarantine, the Presidential ship will be admitted without question; and when it materialises, the Cabinet will detonate, destroying the Capitol with a flood of anti-time and breaking down the last anchor of the Web of Time, causing the chaos the Doctor foresaw in the Matrix.  It will be the Empire of Zagreus.  She releases the Neverpeople to consume the Doctor and Romana.  However, the Time Station stalls out during materialisation, failing to arrive; and Sentris pulls the Neverpeople away to deal with this new problem. As the Neverpeople are incorporeal, she sends the Doctor and Romana in the Doctor’s TARDIS to repair the Time Station; none of its now-possessed skeleton crew have the necessary skills.  Sentris accompanies them, holding Romana hostage to ensure the Doctor’s cooperation. Romana manages to covertly tell the Doctor that she has a plan; if she can reach the Matrix door, she can change the station’s authorisation codes and prevent it from landing on Gallifrey.
Vansell, Romana, and the Doctor argue about what to do about the Daleks in the time loop, and the Neverpeople. The Neverperson expands on her terms: they'll need a permanent gateway (meaning Charley's time is likely up), and until that can be established, they will keep one of their 'leaders' (Romana, Vansell, and the Doctor) with them. Vansell nominates Romana to stay, and Levith agrees. The Doctor says this is a coup and Vansell is self-interested, but the Neverpeople say they trust him. Vansell's loyalty lies with [[Gallifrey]] and Rassilon, not with Romana.


The TARDIS materialises on the station’s bridge, where the Doctor and Romana find Charley, and learn that the rest of the crew is infected and unable to break free of the Neverpeople’s control. The Doctor sends Romana to reset the flux patterns in the reactor, and gives her his sonic screwdriver; Vansell suggests an escort for her, and Sentris sends Vansell himself with Romana. He links the station controls to his own TARDIS so as to boost the power, but then Sentris threatens to have Levith kill herself in order to make him cooperate further. She orders him to slave the Cabinet to the self-destruct system, so that the station will explode upon materialisation, spreading anti-time across the world.
They all go outside to find the Casket, and Romana follows the Neverperson's orders. They are presented with the Casket, supposedly containing Rassilon's remains, and they are let go. The Neverpeople take Romana, and Vansell leaves the Doctor to be sucked into the hole in the ground, with Charley taken back by the CIA, with Rassilon's Casket in tow. Meanwhile, Romana walks with the Neverpeople towards the rest of the Neverpeople for a trial. Vansell (now [[Acting Lord President]]) restores the power to the time station. Romana is met by two of the Neverpeople: [[Taris]] and [[Rorvan]]. She doesn't remember them. The Charley-Neverperson reminds her of her childhood, and tells her of her friends, who are the pair before her. She still doesn't remember them.


At the reactor, the positive temporal energy draws Romana’s Neverpeople guards—Rorvan and Taris, as it turns out—toward the reactor. This allows Vansell to regain some control of himself; horrified by his previous actions, he swears loyalty to Romana. She enlists his help; by lowering the two blast shutters on the engine and raising its shield, she will expose Rorvan and Taris to the overwhelming energy of the core, and hopefully destroy them.  However, Vansell’s shutter jams open; he lowers the shield anyway, sacrificing himself to destroy the Neverpeople.
Charley-Neverperson questions her about the things she was given knowledgeable of when she became president, including the [[Oubliette of Eternity]]. She says it's a disused chamber in the heart of an offworld station that is the CIA headquarters. The chamber was used for '[[dispersal|dispersion]]', a form of punishment that is no longer used. The Doctor comes in and says that the Anti-Time universe is where dispersed people ended up. The Neverpeople were once Time Lords. Rorvan and Taris, who were orphans, were dispersed for discovering that their parents were student rebels who were dispersed themselves. [[Sentris]] is the one wearing Charley's face, and she chose to disperse herself; the 217th member of the CIA. This is her way of making amends.


With the boost from the TARDIS, the station’s time rotor revives, just as Sentris senses the deaths of Rorvan and Taris. She deduces Romana’s plan, and her possessed Time Lords activate the emergency bulkheads throughout the ship, sealing Romana away from the Matrix chamber.  She uses the sonic screwdriver to override the bulkheads, and reaches the Matrix, but finds its voices are all insane now, ranting about the coming of Zagreus. She is unable to change the codes; and Sentris tells the Doctor that it doesn’t matter anyway—before leaving Gallifrey, Vansell had pushed through an order making it impossible to change the codes during a state of emergency.  However, she taunts the Doctor by telling him that one option remains: he could kill Charley.  This would close the gateway. Of course, he refuses, even when the possessed Levith gives him her staser. Charley makes an impassioned speech as to why he should let her die—knowing she is grateful for the extra time she’s had—but he cannot do it. As Sentris activates the gateway again, the station dematerialises, heading for Gallifrey.  The Doctor realises there is one more thing he can do, however—and he runs into the TARDIS and dematerialises. Confident of victory, Sentris lets him go.
Romana apologises to the Neverpeople, but they tell her that dispersal is still happening, being carried out in her name- on Vansell's orders. In the ship, Charley realises that Vansell has been infected with Anti-Time. Sentris tells the Doctor and Romana that Rassilon was a paranoid despot who deprived the Universe of free will, and that he built the Oubliette. As Rassilon's actions created Anti-Time and it's monster (which he called Zagreus), he came to the antiverse... But Zagreus never existed. This 'Zagreus' that Rassilon supposedly fought was a concoction to persuade Time Lords to come to the antiverse. Vansell does not have Rassilon's body, for he still lies dead in his "sleep of the just" in [[the Dark Tower]]. The hologram was a projection.


The Doctor quickly reconfigures the interior of the TARDIS, but is interrupted when time comes to a halt.  He is visited by an apparition—the old man from the Matrix, now recognised as Rassilon. With time paused, the old man asks the Doctor to explain the course that led him here; he does so, beginning with meeting Charley on the R101. He insists he has considered every possible alternative; and at that, the old man allows him to proceed. He warns the Doctor that he must face the consequences of his decisions, but assures him that the Doctor has always made him proud.  Time resumes its flow.
Charley is being prepared to be used as a gate again, so the CIA can leave the antiverse, and she sees the Neverpeople come into the ship. Sentris tells the Doctor that the Casket contains Anti-Time, which will infect the Capital of Gallifrey. Sentris claims this will bring freedom for all- this 'empire of Zagreus' - but Romana says this can't happen. The Neverpeople tell Vansell to open the gate, and Levith, now infected with Anti-Time, obeys him. Sentris says that the Doctor will be a great feast, and the Neverpeople go to feed. The time station's power begins fading and Sentris says the TARDIS will be needed to reinvigorate the time station's temporal reactors. She's brought out for the Doctor, Romana, and Sentris to travel to the station in.


As the Time Station materialises, Sentris—through Levith—activates the self-destruct mechanism.  However, the Doctor’s TARDIS materialises around the station. The TARDIS will contain the fallout until the Time Lords can fix it; and though the Doctor will die, he has won, saving both the Universe and Charley. The station explodes as Sentris screams.
The pair of Time Lords fix the TARDIS, and Romana has a plan: they can change the Presidential authorisation, so the station won't be let into the Capital. She'll have to do it from inside the Matrix. Finally, they take off. They reach Charley, and they realise the Anti-Time from the Casket has infected the crew. The Doctor says he'll need Romana's help to fix the station, and Sentris agrees. Levith stays with the Doctor while Vansell goes down to the reactors with Romana, Rorvan, and Taris. Romana is given the Doctor's [[sonic screwdriver|sonic]]. Romana tells Vansell that the Neverpeople are the Oublietted people, and what they plan to do to the web of time. The Doctor finishes his work, and then is told to help the under-Cardinal, and is forced to connect the Casket to the station's self destruct, so it will detonate shortly after they materialise on Gallifrey.


Inside the Matrix, everything suddenly returns to normal, with history repaired. This time, it includes Charley’s rescue and all the events of the anti-time crisis, up to the Doctor’s sacrifice. Rassilon appears to Romana, and explains that Charley and the threat she represented to history are now a part of history. Her survival on the R101 ensured the Universe’s survival, thus meaning that her survival could never have been a threat to the Universe in the first place. It’s a paradox, but one everyone can live with. Rassilon expresses pride in Romana, and gives her the chance to return to Gallifrey; but if she does so, the future must be hidden from her.  Still, she and Charley have a part to play, even if the future is dark.  Romana leaves the Matrix, returning to Gallifrey.
Romana realises that Anti-Time's hold over Vansell is waning, and he tells her he is loyal to her. The reactor's core would atomise Rorvan and Taris, if they can raise the [[Zybanium]] shield protecting the core. Together, they do just this, but Vansell's shutter is jammed, so he won't be protected. Vansell is killed, along with Rorvan and Taris. Sentris realises that they are dead, and that Romana is heading for the Matrix chamber. Romana uses the sonic to get in anyway, and enters the Matrix. Inside, she talks to some data recorders, and is told Zagreus is coming, and it is inevitable. Sentris realises what Romana is doing and says the code cannot be changed, thanks to a rule ratified recently by Vansell. Charley tells the Doctor there's a chance- if she dies, the breach in space-time has no coordinates, so the Neverpeople couldn't use the breach.


Charley, too, has survived, and makes her way to the shattered console room of the TARDIS. She finds the Doctor in the darkened room, but he strikes her, knocking her down. He exultantly tells her that, with the breach closed, all the anti-time in the Universe is contained in him, as he absorbed it during the explosion. He is no longer the Doctor, but the embodiment of anti-time, the dark being known as Zagreus.
Sentris tells Levith to throw her staser to the Doctor, and Charley accepts her fate, begging the Doctor to kill her. They say they love each other. Sentris eggs the Doctor on further, but the Doctor still can't do it. Levith opens the gateway as Charley screams. The Doctor tries to convince Sentris to stop, but she doesn't, and they dematerialise through the breach. This makes him realise something: he gets into the TARDIS, and has an idea. Just then, the [[Matrix Rassilon]] freezes him. The Doctor tells Rassilon the story of Charley Pollard. Rassilon tells him that he's proud of the Doctor and the difference he's made to the Universe. He departs.
 
The station has reached Gallifrey, and sets off the self destruct timer. The Doctor conducts his plan- he calls Sentris from the TARDIS, which he's materialised around the time station. This would annihilate the Doctor, though he says his TARDIS can take the energy, and Charley (once restabilised) will be okay. The Casket detonates.
 
Romana sees the R101 crash from inside the Matrix, and how Charley's survival leads to the Doctor's death. This is now part of the Web of Time. She declares that history will remember him. Then, the old man- Rassilon's Matrix projection- appears before her. He explains how Charley has survived, and Romana may return to Gallifrey through a different door in the Matrix. Charley's story is not yet done, and Romana leaves. Rassilon recites part of the Zagreus rhyme once more, just as Charley (now in the TARDIS) finds the Doctor: now filled with Anti-Time. This Anti-Time creatures calls itself... Zagreus.


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
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* [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley Pollard]] - [[India Fisher]]
* [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley Pollard]] - [[India Fisher]]
* [[Romana II|Romana]] - [[Lalla Ward]]
* [[Romana II|Romana]] - [[Lalla Ward]]
* [[Matrix Rassilon|Rassilon]] - [[Don Warrington]]
* [[Vansell|Coordinator Vansell]] - [[Anthony Keetch]]
* [[Vansell|Coordinator Vansell]] - [[Anthony Keetch]]
* [[Kurst]] - [[Peter Trapani]]
* [[Kurst]] - [[Peter Trapani]]
* [[Levith]] - [[Holly King]]
* [[Levith]] - [[Holly King]]
* [[Undercardinal (Neverland)|Undercardinal]] - [[Lee Moone]]
* [[Rorvan]] - [[Mark McDonnell]]
* [[Rorvan]] - [[Mark McDonnell]]
* [[Taris]] - [[Nicola Boyce]]
* [[Taris]] - [[Nicola Boyce]]
* [[Rassilon]] - [[Don Warrington]]
* [[The Matrix|Matrix]] voices - [[Jonathan Rigby]], [[Dot Smith]], [[Ian Hallard]]
* [[The Matrix|Matrix]] voices - [[Jonathan Rigby]], [[Dot Smith]], [[Ian Hallard]]
* [[Dalek Emperor]] - [[Alistair Lock]]  
* [[Dalek Emperor]] - [[Alistair Lock]]
* [[Undercardinal (Neverland)|Undercardinal]] - [[Lee Moone]]
 
== Crew ==
 
* Cover Art - [[Clayton Hickman]]
* Director - [[Gary Russell]]
* Executive Producer - [[Jacqueline Rayner]]
* Music - [[Nicholas Briggs]]
* Producers - Gary Russell and [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]]
* Sound Design - [[Alistair Lock]]
* Writer - [[Alan Barnes]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Botany ===
=== Botany ===
* In a Matrix projection, there are no [[Cadonwood tree]]s left alive.
* In a Matrix projection, there are no [[Cadonwood tree]]s left alive.
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=== Gallifreyan technology ===
=== Gallifreyan technology ===
* The [[Oubliette of Eternity]] erases people and Time Lords from history. They end up in the [[Antiverse]].
* The [[Oubliette of Eternity]] erases people and Time Lords from history. They end up in the [[Antiverse]].
* A space-time converter is used, as is a sub-proton accelerator, which "stimulates matter at the atomic level".


=== Space-time vessels ===
=== Space-time vessels ===
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=== TARDIS ===
=== TARDIS ===
* Charley uses the [[fast return switch]] to fly [[the TARDIS]] back into the path of [[time torpedoes]].
* Charley uses the [[fast return switch]] to fly [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] back into the path of [[time torpedo]]es.


=== Theories and concepts ===
=== Theories and concepts ===
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=== Literature ===
=== Literature ===
* Charley makes various reference to [[Peter Pan]].
* Charley makes various reference to [[Peter Pan]].
== Gallery ==
<gallery position="center" captionalign="center" hideaddbutton="true" widths="250">
Neverland cover.jpg|Original CD cover
Neverland (DWM 318).jpg|Illustrated preview by [[Martin Geraghty]] in [[DWM 318]]
Neverland (DWM 321).jpg|Review illustration by [[Roger Langridge]] in [[DWM 321]]
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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* Don Warrington's name was not included in any of the cast lists printed in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', www.doctorwho.co.uk or the CD's inner booklet in order to conceal the character's identity. His name does, however, appear on the cover of the CD.<ref name="MillenniumEffect">{{cite web|url=http://www.millenniumeffect.co.uk/audio/stories/commercial.php#bfp|title= Neverland|date of source=|website name=The Millennium Effect|accessdate=4th February 2012}}</ref>
* Don Warrington's name was not included in any of the cast lists printed in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', www.doctorwho.co.uk or the CD's inner booklet in order to conceal the character's identity. His name does, however, appear on the cover of the CD.<ref name="MillenniumEffect">{{cite web|url=http://www.millenniumeffect.co.uk/audio/stories/commercial.php#bfp|title= Neverland|date of source=|website name=The Millennium Effect|accessdate=4 February 2012}}</ref>
* Despite ''Neverland'' being publicised as a traditional Big Finish Productions four-story, it was released as "a special two-part, feature-length" presentation with episodes of seventy-two minutes each.<ref name="MillenniumEffect" />
* Despite ''Neverland'' being publicised as a traditional Big Finish Productions four-part story, it was released as "a special two-part, feature-length" presentation with episodes of seventy-two minutes each.<ref name="MillenniumEffect" />
* Part 2 of ''Neverland'' leads directly into ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]''. However, there was a gap of a year and five months between the release of ''Neverland'' in June 2002 and the release of ''Zagreus'' in November 2003.
* Part 2 of ''Neverland'' leads directly into ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]''. However, there was a gap of a year and five months between the release of ''Neverland'' in June 2002 and the release of ''Zagreus'' in November 2003.
* This audio drama was recorded on [[24 January (production)|24]] and [[25 January (production)|25 January]] 2001 and [[27 February (production)|27 February]] 2002.
* This audio drama was recorded on [[24 January (production)|24]] and [[25 January (production)|25 January]] [[2001 (production)|2001]] and [[27 February (production)|27 February]] [[2002 (production)|2002]].


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
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{{discontinuity}}
* The paradox of Charley's survival started in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning]]''.
* The paradox of Charley's survival started in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]''.
* The Daleks were stuck in the vortex in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks]]''.
* The Daleks were stuck in the vortex in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks (audio story)|The Time of the Daleks]]''.
* The Time Lords first tried to get the Doctor in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Embrace the Darkness]]''.
* The Time Lords first tried to get the Doctor in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Embrace the Darkness (audio story)|Embrace the Darkness]]''.
* The Doctor originally tells Charley that the Time Lords want the Doctor to report at an inquiry into the recent [[Nimon]] incursion on Earth in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]'', before giving in and telling her its about her survival.  
* The Doctor tells Charley that he never gives up because he's the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
* Vansell makes note of the Doctor and Charley's presence in [[Beauvais]], [[France]] on [[5 October]] [[1930]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning]]''), the cargo ship ''[[Vanguard (Sword of Orion)|Vanguard]]'' in [[2503]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion]]''), [[Venice]] in [[2294]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stones of Venice]]''), [[Malebolgia]] in [[2003]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Minuet in Hell]]'') and [[New York City]] in [[1938]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invaders from Mars]]'').
* The Doctor originally tells Charley that the Time Lords want the Doctor to report at an inquiry into the recent [[Nimon]] incursion on Earth in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]'', before giving in and telling her it's about her survival.
* Vansell also notes their next appearance in [[London]], but it is unclear how true that is, given the events of [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight]]''.
* Vansell makes note of the Doctor and Charley's presence in [[Beauvais]], [[France]] on [[5 October]] [[1930]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'') the cargo ship ''[[Vanguard (Sword of Orion)|Vanguard]]'' in [[2503]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion (audio story)|Sword of Orion]]'') [[Venice]] in [[2294]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stones of Venice (audio story)|The Stones of Venice]]'') [[Malebolgia]] in [[2003]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Minuet in Hell (audio story)|Minuet in Hell]]'') [[New York City]] in [[1938]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invaders from Mars (audio story)|Invaders from Mars]]'') and [[London]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Chimes of Midnight (audio story)|The Chimes of Midnight]]'')
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear]]'' first showed the [[Neverperson|Neverpeople]] entering the normal universe.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]'' first showed the [[Neverperson|Neverpeople]] entering the normal universe.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Twilight (audio story)|Project: Twilight]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Instruments of Darkness]]'' and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear]]'' mentioned Zagreus.
* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Twilight (audio story)|Project: Twilight]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Instruments of Darkness (novel)|Instruments of Darkness]]'' and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]'' mentioned Zagreus.
* [[The Matrix]] noted [[Rassilon Era]] date of 6978.3. This is incorrect, and should have been 6798.3.
* [[The Matrix]] noted [[Rassilon Era]] date of 6978.3. This is incorrect, and should have been 6798.3.
* The Library of St John the Beheaded appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]''; Yssgaroth appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Pit]]'', and Gallifrey's Mount Cadon comes from [[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation]]''.
* The Library of St John the Beheaded appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]''; Yssgaroth appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Pit (novel)|The Pit]]'', and Gallifrey's Mount Cadon comes from [[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]''.
* The Doctor recalls his and Romana's adventures in [[E-Space]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Full Circle]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Invasion of E-Space]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors' Gate]]'')
* The Doctor recalls his and Romana's adventures in [[E-Space]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Full Circle (TV story)|Full Circle]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Invasion of E-Space (audio story)|The Invasion of E-Space]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors' Gate (TV story)|Warriors' Gate]]'')
* The Doctor mentions his encounter with [[Mary Shelley]] and [[Lord Byron]] near [[Lake Geneva]] in [[Switzerland]] in [[June]] [[1816]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mary's Story (audio story)|Mary's Story]]'')
* The Doctor mentions his encounter with [[Mary Shelley]] and [[Lord Byron]] near [[Lake Geneva]] in [[Switzerland]] in [[June]] [[1816]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mary's Story (audio story)|Mary's Story]]'')
* The Matrix voices refer to the crash of the British [[airship]] ''[[R101]]'' on [[5 October]] [[1930]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]''), [[Adolf Hitler]]'s appointment as [[Chancellor]] of [[Germany]] on [[30 January]] [[1933]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]''), the abdication of [[Edward VIII|King Edward VIII]] on [[10 December]] [[1936]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Players (novel)|Players]]''), the German invasion of [[Poland]] on [[1 September]] [[1939]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Blind Eye (audio story)|A Blind Eye]]''), the evacuation of British troops from [[Battle of Dunkirk|Dunkirk]] on [[27 May]] [[1940]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fugitives (audio story)|Fugitives]]''), the admission of [[Peladon]] into the [[Galactic Federation]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Monster of Peladon (TV story)|The Monster of Peladon]]''), the election of [[Mavic Chen]] as [[Guardian of the Solar System]] in [[40th century|3950]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]''), the [[Dalek]]s' forces assembling on [[Kembel]] in [[4000]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Mission to the Unknown (TV story)|Mission to the Unknown]]''), the establishment of the [[Cult of Morbius]] in 5725.3 ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]''), the theft of the plans for the [[Doomsday Weapon]] by {{Delgado}} on 5892.9 ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]''), [[Chancellor]] [[Goth]]'s visit to [[Tersurus]] in 6241.1 ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]''), the disappearance of [[Lord President|Lady President]] [[Romana II|Romana]] and [[Etra Prime]] in 6776.7 and the repulsion of the [[Dalek]] invasion of Gallifrey by Romana in 6796.8 ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Apocalypse Element (audio story)|The Apocalypse Element]]'').
* The Matrix voices refer to the crash of the British [[airship]] ''[[R101]]'' on [[5 October]] [[1930]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'') [[Adolf Hitler]]'s appointment as [[Chancellor]] of [[Germany]] on [[30 January]] [[1933]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'') the abdication of [[Edward VIII|King Edward VIII]] on [[10 December]] [[1936]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Players (novel)|Players]]'') the German invasion of [[Poland]] on [[1 September]] [[1939]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Blind Eye (audio story)|A Blind Eye]]'') the evacuation of British troops from [[Battle of Dunkirk|Dunkirk]] on [[27 May]] [[1940]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fugitives (audio story)|Fugitives]]''), the admission of [[Peladon]] into the [[Galactic Federation]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Monster of Peladon (TV story)|The Monster of Peladon]]''), the election of [[Mavic Chen]] as [[Guardian of the Solar System]] in [[40th century|3950]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'') the [[Dalek]]s' forces assembling on [[Kembel]] in [[4000]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Mission to the Unknown (TV story)|Mission to the Unknown]]'') the establishment of the [[Cult of Morbius]] in 5725.3, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'') the theft of the plans for the [[Doomsday Weapon]] by {{Delgado}} on 5892.9, ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'') [[Chancellor]] [[Goth]]'s visit to [[Tersurus]] in 6241.1, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'') the disappearance of [[Lord President|Lady President]] [[Romana II|Romana]] and [[Etra Prime]] in 6776.7 and the repulsion of the [[Dalek]] invasion of Gallifrey by Romana in 6796.8. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Apocalypse Element (audio story)|The Apocalypse Element]]'')
* After Vansell's death, he would be succeeded as coordinator of the CIA by [[Narvin]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Weapon of Choice (audio story)|Weapon of Choice]]'')
* After Vansell's death, he would be succeeded as coordinator of the CIA by [[Narvin]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Weapon of Choice (audio story)|Weapon of Choice]]'')
* During their visit to [[Light City]] in the [[Divergent Universe]], the Doctor and Charley's memories were contributed to the pool of information used to programme the Proles. An edited version of their visit to Gallifrey was included in an infotainment broadcast which the Proles were obligated to watch. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Natural History of Fear (audio story)|The Natural History of Fear]]'')
* During their visit to [[Light City]] in the [[Divergent Universe]], the Doctor and Charley's memories were contributed to the pool of information used to programme the Proles. An edited version of their visit to Gallifrey was included in an infotainment broadcast which the Proles were obligated to watch. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Natural History of Fear (audio story)|The Natural History of Fear]]'')
* After Charley escaped from the [[Ever-and-Ever Prolixity]], a [[Viyran]] agent was stationed on Gallifrey to search for her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fall of the House of Pollard (audio story)|The Fall of the House of Pollard]]'')
* After Charley escaped from the [[Ever-and-Ever Prolixity]], a [[Viyran]] agent was stationed on Gallifrey to search for her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fall of the House of Pollard (audio story)|The Fall of the House of Pollard]]'')
* The Doctor mentions previously being in [[Rassilon]]'s Tomb. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')
* The Doctor mentions previously being in [[Tomb of Rassilon|Rassilon's Tomb]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')
* The Doctor mentions having been to the Acteon Galaxy before, but not for a while. ([[TV]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters (TV story)|Carnival of Monsters]]'')
* Kurst compares the TARDIS interior to an "Ormellian brothel". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Last of the Titans (audio story)|Last of the Titans]]'')
* Charley mentions the "Mountain Mauler of Montana". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Romans (TV story)|The Romans]]'')
 
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Neverland was the thirty-third story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Alan Barnes and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, India Fisher as Charlotte Pollard, Lalla Ward as Romana II, Anthony Keetch as Vansell and Don Warrington as Rassilon.

This story concluded the arc of stories beginning with Invaders from Mars concerning the paradox of Charley Pollard's surviving the R101's destruction.

Neverland was one of three audio stories to feature Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor alongside Romana as played by Lalla Ward. The others were the audio adaptation Shada, which itself was an extended release of the webcast of the same name, and Zagreus.

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

The Web of Time is stretched to breaking. History is leaking like a sieve. In the Citadel of Gallifrey, the Time Lords fear the end of everything that is, everything that was... everything that will be.

The Doctor holds the Time Lords' only hope — but exactly what lengths will the Celestial Intervention Agency go to in their efforts to retrieve something important from within his TARDIS? What has caused the Imperiatrix Romanadvoratrelundar to declare war on the rest of creation? And can an old nursery rhyme about a monster called Zagreus really be coming true?

The answers can only be found outside the bounds of the universe itself, in a place that history forgot. In the wastegrounds of eternity. In the Neverland.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

A mechanical voice reads out key dates in the Humanian Era, including the crash of the R101. This voice is overlapped by a female voice, which reads out key dates in the Sensorian era. The first voice is still going, and lists dates and events in the Rassilon era, but when it gets to the Dalek Fleet being captured in the vortex, it begins breaking up, and screams that it "can't remember".

In the TARDIS, the Doctor explains to Charley that although the Daleks are trapped in a paradox, a time pocket, they may still be brought back by the Time Lords to avoid disruption to the timeline. They are in the Acteon galaxy, which the Doctor describes, saying that he hasn't been there since he "was an old man. Probably". Then, on the scanner, they see a large number of grey battle TARDISes, and realise they are there for them. Meanwhile, Vansell tells Romana that they have located the Doctor, and are blocking entrances to the vortex across 5 million consecutive years. The time station they are in heads towards them. The Doctor receives a message ordering them to power down their TARDIS, which the Doctor ignores, and is shot at by time torpedoes. However, a time slip hits them, which sends their TARDIS through time.

When it's over, the Doctor asks Charley how long they've been travelling together, and Charley guesses it to be about six months. The Doctor wishes her a happy birthday, and says she's going to an amazing party, inside the Jovian Fold. Acting excited, he says he won't be attending, and will pick her up in a year. The Doctor will go and see the Time Lords in the meantime, and try to sort out the paradox of Charley's existence. Charley doesn't want to hide away, saying that it's time to stop dreaming, time to grow up, but the Doctor doesn't want to give up on her. She hits the fast return switch.

Kurst and Levith, CIA agents, enter the TARDIS, which has been frozen for a few hundred years. The Doctor awakens and mutters about adventures he's had, and they take him for his "date with the President". They use a time-space converter to wake up Charley. The Doctor comes to his senses in a metal room in a 7C Supra-Orbital Time Station, where he teases Vansell about their time in the Academy. Vansell lists the many occasions on which Vansell has been traced to in different time periods after her death. Romana gives her word that no injustice will be carried out against Charley.

Charley is prepared for a procedure by the CIA agents while Vansell continues interrogating the Doctor about recent time slips. This leads the Doctor to explain the theory of Anti-Time, which he doesn't believe in, but is convinced when Romana shows him the time slips and disruptions originating from the 1930s. They describe Charley as patient zero; a rip in the fabric of space-time. Time is "running out", and the Matrix cannot cope. The Doctor is standing on a door to the Matrix, which he enters unwillingly.

Inside the Matrix, he sees the future if the slips continue: Gallifrey burning, Mount Cadon obscured by smoke. He meets an old man, who tells him Gallifrey is dead, and the people who are left alive have turned cruel. This is now the Empire of Zagreus. He sees Romana as an Imperiatrix, who has become cruel. She takes the Dalek Emperor and it's fleet as prisoners. as prisoners as they beg to be released. The Imperiatrix-Romana destroys the Daleks. The Doctor protests that this isn't right, and an angry mob begins to attack him. He is brought out of the matrix projection.

The Doctor still swears he will protect Charley, despite the projection. Romana suggests they follow the time distortion to its source, and Vansell relishes in adding that they'll destroy it. They must go through the space time breach using Charley, in order to enter the universe of Anti-Time, which Vansell claims to have ancient records about. Meanwhile, the agents finish installing the space-time converter, and Charley wakes. They explain they are using a sub-protonic converter to allow people to travel using her into another universe, but that it may change her.

Romana assures the Doctor that the changes to Charley will be reverted, and says she's sure Vansell will turn a blind eye and allow them to leave after their mission is complete. Vansell agrees. Charley, stabilised inside an acceleration field (created by the machinery mentioned earlier) inside the Doctor's TARDIS, will be used to find the coordinates of the source of the breach. The gate of Zagreus is opened, and Charley screams. Suddenly, things go wrong, and the Doctor's TARDIS is sucked through. Soon, so is the Time Station.

The Doctor's TARDIS has arrived. Charley whimpers as Levith explains that Charley was reverting to her natural state as the TARDIS broke through. The power to the proton accelerator was cut off, and Charley stabilised. Kurst unties Charley as Levith sees that the TARDIS cannot definitively say where they are: they arrived in the universe of anti-time (antiverse). The Doctor, meanwhile, taunts Vansell as they make it through to the antiverse with some other Time Lords who were with them in the station, including the Undercardinal. Looking out, they see constant motion- their theories of Anti-Time were correct. However, there is a single fixed point: a planetoid. Clearly it doesn't belong there. From this planet emanates the trans-temporal beacon Levith had set up, which the sensors pick up.

Exploring the planetoid, Levith sees a forest, which Charley says are just metal spikes. The beacon malfunctions due to time disruption as Charley runs towards the spikes. She hears laughter, and then a voice is a distorted form of her own voice and that has her memories. Turning around, she sees this person looks like her, too. She describes a time Charley was a child and got lost in the woods, and then tells her that she has been following her since France. Her people are everyone who never was, never died, never lived, and they want her to join them. The agents hear Charley's scream and hold off the collection of ghosts (Neverpeople) while Charley escapes. The collection kills Kurst, saying that the Time Lords made them, and so they can unmake Kurst.

Levith and Charley run for the TARDIS, but the beacon and the TARDIS have been swallowed by the ground, which cracked open. The Doctor and Vansell argue over what to do, and the Doctor triggers the Time Ship to go towards where the beacon was- against orders. The Neverpeople reappear, asking Charley to join them again, but then the Time Station comes towards them. Romana threatens to restrain the Doctor. The station crashes against the metal forest, and the distorted neverperson-Charley voice makes herself known. The Neverpeople feed on the time energy in the time station, becoming more solid. Romana tells them off. The guards fire at them, but it doesn't do anything.

Charley-Neverperson says that the truth about Zagreus, the thing which Vansell came here for, is here. Vansell orders the guards to lower their weapons and follow him, but Romana regains control quickly, and they follow her and the Doctor out. Charley and Levith reach the time station, reuniting with the Doctor and Romana. Vansell questions the Doctor's loyalty and motives, though Romana seems unswayed by his probing. They all go into the metal forest, and the Doctor finds it strange. Acid rain begins falling, and they take cover.

Charley realises that the area that they're in is bigger on the inside than on the outside- the planetoid is actually the wreck of a TARDIS. Romana admits that she had suspected it all along. Vansell investigates the area- the console room- and they find a spark of life. Just enough to form a hologram of the old man the Doctor met in the Matrix: Rassilon (of the Matrix)! He will not rest until Zagreus is destroyed. He explains his story, and how it ended with his paranoia that he may have brought into being, by constructing the one true timeline, its opposite: Anti-Time. A poison he feared would spill into the main timeline. He found the 'Neverworld' and has been battling Anti-Time, but that he has always hoped that his Time Lords would find him and take him home.

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

Romana admits that this is why they really came, and the group discuss the Zagreus nursery rhyme as a metaphor for what is happening to the web of time. Vansell and Levith tell the story of a hero who sought out battle with Zagreus. The hero's name? Azalon, also called Razlon, or Ra. Before Ra leaves home, he orders all records of his quest destroyed, to avoid undermining his utopia. This perfectly mirrors Rassilon's tale. Vansell wants to resurrect Rassilon, and says proof of the tale being true lies in a Zero Cabinet, somewhere on the planetoid (TARDIS). The Charley-Neverperson returns, offering to negotiate terms: the Neverpeople are allowed to survive in tandem with the main timeline, and they will help them resurrect Rassilon by giving them the Casket of Rassilon, and the time station.

Vansell, Romana, and the Doctor argue about what to do about the Daleks in the time loop, and the Neverpeople. The Neverperson expands on her terms: they'll need a permanent gateway (meaning Charley's time is likely up), and until that can be established, they will keep one of their 'leaders' (Romana, Vansell, and the Doctor) with them. Vansell nominates Romana to stay, and Levith agrees. The Doctor says this is a coup and Vansell is self-interested, but the Neverpeople say they trust him. Vansell's loyalty lies with Gallifrey and Rassilon, not with Romana.

They all go outside to find the Casket, and Romana follows the Neverperson's orders. They are presented with the Casket, supposedly containing Rassilon's remains, and they are let go. The Neverpeople take Romana, and Vansell leaves the Doctor to be sucked into the hole in the ground, with Charley taken back by the CIA, with Rassilon's Casket in tow. Meanwhile, Romana walks with the Neverpeople towards the rest of the Neverpeople for a trial. Vansell (now Acting Lord President) restores the power to the time station. Romana is met by two of the Neverpeople: Taris and Rorvan. She doesn't remember them. The Charley-Neverperson reminds her of her childhood, and tells her of her friends, who are the pair before her. She still doesn't remember them.

Charley-Neverperson questions her about the things she was given knowledgeable of when she became president, including the Oubliette of Eternity. She says it's a disused chamber in the heart of an offworld station that is the CIA headquarters. The chamber was used for 'dispersion', a form of punishment that is no longer used. The Doctor comes in and says that the Anti-Time universe is where dispersed people ended up. The Neverpeople were once Time Lords. Rorvan and Taris, who were orphans, were dispersed for discovering that their parents were student rebels who were dispersed themselves. Sentris is the one wearing Charley's face, and she chose to disperse herself; the 217th member of the CIA. This is her way of making amends.

Romana apologises to the Neverpeople, but they tell her that dispersal is still happening, being carried out in her name- on Vansell's orders. In the ship, Charley realises that Vansell has been infected with Anti-Time. Sentris tells the Doctor and Romana that Rassilon was a paranoid despot who deprived the Universe of free will, and that he built the Oubliette. As Rassilon's actions created Anti-Time and it's monster (which he called Zagreus), he came to the antiverse... But Zagreus never existed. This 'Zagreus' that Rassilon supposedly fought was a concoction to persuade Time Lords to come to the antiverse. Vansell does not have Rassilon's body, for he still lies dead in his "sleep of the just" in the Dark Tower. The hologram was a projection.

Charley is being prepared to be used as a gate again, so the CIA can leave the antiverse, and she sees the Neverpeople come into the ship. Sentris tells the Doctor that the Casket contains Anti-Time, which will infect the Capital of Gallifrey. Sentris claims this will bring freedom for all- this 'empire of Zagreus' - but Romana says this can't happen. The Neverpeople tell Vansell to open the gate, and Levith, now infected with Anti-Time, obeys him. Sentris says that the Doctor will be a great feast, and the Neverpeople go to feed. The time station's power begins fading and Sentris says the TARDIS will be needed to reinvigorate the time station's temporal reactors. She's brought out for the Doctor, Romana, and Sentris to travel to the station in.

The pair of Time Lords fix the TARDIS, and Romana has a plan: they can change the Presidential authorisation, so the station won't be let into the Capital. She'll have to do it from inside the Matrix. Finally, they take off. They reach Charley, and they realise the Anti-Time from the Casket has infected the crew. The Doctor says he'll need Romana's help to fix the station, and Sentris agrees. Levith stays with the Doctor while Vansell goes down to the reactors with Romana, Rorvan, and Taris. Romana is given the Doctor's sonic. Romana tells Vansell that the Neverpeople are the Oublietted people, and what they plan to do to the web of time. The Doctor finishes his work, and then is told to help the under-Cardinal, and is forced to connect the Casket to the station's self destruct, so it will detonate shortly after they materialise on Gallifrey.

Romana realises that Anti-Time's hold over Vansell is waning, and he tells her he is loyal to her. The reactor's core would atomise Rorvan and Taris, if they can raise the Zybanium shield protecting the core. Together, they do just this, but Vansell's shutter is jammed, so he won't be protected. Vansell is killed, along with Rorvan and Taris. Sentris realises that they are dead, and that Romana is heading for the Matrix chamber. Romana uses the sonic to get in anyway, and enters the Matrix. Inside, she talks to some data recorders, and is told Zagreus is coming, and it is inevitable. Sentris realises what Romana is doing and says the code cannot be changed, thanks to a rule ratified recently by Vansell. Charley tells the Doctor there's a chance- if she dies, the breach in space-time has no coordinates, so the Neverpeople couldn't use the breach.

Sentris tells Levith to throw her staser to the Doctor, and Charley accepts her fate, begging the Doctor to kill her. They say they love each other. Sentris eggs the Doctor on further, but the Doctor still can't do it. Levith opens the gateway as Charley screams. The Doctor tries to convince Sentris to stop, but she doesn't, and they dematerialise through the breach. This makes him realise something: he gets into the TARDIS, and has an idea. Just then, the Matrix Rassilon freezes him. The Doctor tells Rassilon the story of Charley Pollard. Rassilon tells him that he's proud of the Doctor and the difference he's made to the Universe. He departs.

The station has reached Gallifrey, and sets off the self destruct timer. The Doctor conducts his plan- he calls Sentris from the TARDIS, which he's materialised around the time station. This would annihilate the Doctor, though he says his TARDIS can take the energy, and Charley (once restabilised) will be okay. The Casket detonates.

Romana sees the R101 crash from inside the Matrix, and how Charley's survival leads to the Doctor's death. This is now part of the Web of Time. She declares that history will remember him. Then, the old man- Rassilon's Matrix projection- appears before her. He explains how Charley has survived, and Romana may return to Gallifrey through a different door in the Matrix. Charley's story is not yet done, and Romana leaves. Rassilon recites part of the Zagreus rhyme once more, just as Charley (now in the TARDIS) finds the Doctor: now filled with Anti-Time. This Anti-Time creatures calls itself... Zagreus.

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Botany[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Galaxies[[edit] | [edit source]]

Gallifreyan culture[[edit] | [edit source]]

Gallifreyan history[[edit] | [edit source]]

Gallifreyan technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Oubliette of Eternity erases people and Time Lords from history. They end up in the Antiverse.
  • A space-time converter is used, as is a sub-proton accelerator, which "stimulates matter at the atomic level".

Space-time vessels[[edit] | [edit source]]

Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]

Theories and concepts[[edit] | [edit source]]

Timeline[[edit] | [edit source]]

Time Lords[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • When Romana was a young girl of sixty, her family went to the shores of Lake Abydos on Gallifrey.

Literature[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Charley makes various reference to Peter Pan.

Gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Don Warrington's name was not included in any of the cast lists printed in Doctor Who Magazine, www.doctorwho.co.uk or the CD's inner booklet in order to conceal the character's identity. His name does, however, appear on the cover of the CD.[1]
  • Despite Neverland being publicised as a traditional Big Finish Productions four-part story, it was released as "a special two-part, feature-length" presentation with episodes of seventy-two minutes each.[1]
  • Part 2 of Neverland leads directly into Zagreus. However, there was a gap of a year and five months between the release of Neverland in June 2002 and the release of Zagreus in November 2003.
  • This audio drama was recorded on 24 and 25 January 2001 and 27 February 2002.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.

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

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Neverland. The Millennium Effect. Retrieved on 4 February 2012.
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