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|main character = [[Yvonne Hartman|Yvonne]], [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]], [[Tommy Pierce|Tommy]] | |main character = [[Yvonne Hartman|Yvonne]], [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]], [[Tommy Pierce|Tommy]] | ||
|enemy = | |enemy = [[Xylophron plasma]] | ||
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|setting = [[London]], [[2000s]] | |setting = [[London]], [[2000s]] | ||
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|production code = BFPTWONE05CD | |production code = BFPTWONE05CD | ||
|epcount = 1 | |epcount = 1 | ||
|format = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/> | |format = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>1st of 3 stories | ||
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-80240-401-2 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-80240-402-9 (digital) | |isbn = ISBN 978-1-80240-401-2 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-80240-402-9 (digital) | ||
|series = ''[[Torchwood One (audio series)|Torchwood One]]'' | |series = ''[[Torchwood One (audio series)|Torchwood One]]'' | ||
|prev = Less Majesty (audio story) | |prev = Less Majesty (audio story) | ||
|next = By Royal Appointment (audio story) | |next = By Royal Appointment (audio story) | ||
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first audio story in ''[[I Hate Mondays (audio anthology)|I Hate Mondays]]''. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first audio story in the anthology ''[[I Hate Mondays (audio anthology)|I Hate Mondays]]'' produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It featured [[Tracy-Ann Oberman]] as [[Yvonne Hartman]], [[Gareth David-Lloyd]] as [[Ianto Jones]] and [[Timothy Bentinck]] as [[Tommy Pierce]]. | ||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
''to be | On [[Yvonne Hartman|Yvonne]]'s night off, [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] arrives at her house as she prepares for a [[dinner party]] with her [[Monday Supper Club]] and informs her that the [[Xylophron plasma]] that [[Torchwood One]] sent to [[Porton Down]] to be locked away has escaped. However, she is determined to go ahead with her dinner on account of her having missed her last three turns because of her job and demands that he leave, only to be forced to hide him in the [[kitchen]] when [[Ken (Dinner for Yvonne)|Ken]] and [[Diane (Dinner for Yvonne)|Diane]] arrive. [[Gerry (Dinner for Yvonne)|Gerry]] and [[Kiki (Dinner for Yvonne)|Kiki]] soon follow and Yvonne ushers them in before [[Tommy Pierce|Tommy]] can reach the house, but he instead climbs in through the kitchen window. The [[army]] intend on bombarding the Xylophron and inadvertently making it stronger, so Yvonne gives Tommy permission to set up an operation room in her kitchen and send everyone available to deal with it. | ||
Tommy boils Yvonne's [[chilled pea soup]] and she returns to the kitchen when he knocks things over whilst trying to set up his [[computer]], learning that the Xylophron has destroyed three [[RAF]] [[aeroplane]]s. She advises Ianto and Tommy to raise a [[cordon]] to slow the Xylophron's advance and gets them to help her with her [[cooking]], but she ruins her roast when she burns her hands taking her [[pork]] out of the [[oven]] and sends Ianto out as a [[butler]] to serve the food after washing it. Tommy makes a quick [[sauce]] with [[Sandra Pierce|his wife]]'s [[recipe]] and joins the dinner table to get Yvonne to return to Ianto in the kitchen. There, Ianto tells her that the Xylophron has taken over the Torchwood agents and her [[soufflé]]s are in danger, so she announces to her guests that the country is in danger from [[poison]] [[gas]]. | |||
Gerry tries to call his [[personal assistant]] to check on his crew's filming, Diane the management team of her [[charity]] as they might be needed and Ken the [[warehouse]] manager to check on his equipment for his [[music festival]]s, but Tommy has cut the mobile signal and finishes making the [[crème brûlée]]. Over [[dessert]], Yvonne tells the guests about Torchwood and, frustrated by them, reveals that she knows that Gerry is covering up his lead [[actor]]'s [[sex]] [[crime]]s, Diane's charity spends very little on actual charity, Ken's sound system has been impounded and Gerry and Diane are having an [[affair]]. Tommy convinces her to take control of the Xylophron situation, so she has Ianto access their phones to send Ken's impounded speakers to the Xylophron on a [[Sopworth Camel]] being used in Gerry's filming and get all of Diane's subscribers to turn on their [[microwave]]s to make a disruption field. | |||
Yvonne reveals that she knows that Kiki is a [[telepath]] and that the [[crystal]]s she sells release waves which Ken's speakers amplify, shattering the psychic [[gestalt]]. The plan succeeds as the Xylophron reaches [[London]] and the guests depart. Yvonne, Ianto and Tommy finish off the [[cheese]] and Ianto gets a call from the [[hospital]] informing him that [[Ianto Jones Sr|his father]] has died. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Ken (Dinner for Yvonne)|Ken]] - [[Ed White]] | * [[Ken (Dinner for Yvonne)|Ken]] - [[Ed White]] | ||
* [[Diane (Dinner for Yvonne)|Diane]] - [[Anniwaa Buachie]] | * [[Diane (Dinner for Yvonne)|Diane]] - [[Anniwaa Buachie]] | ||
* [[Gerry | * [[Gerry Buckle|Gerry]] - [[Ian Abeysekera]] | ||
* [[Kiki | * [[Kiki Buckle|Kiki]] - [[Lesley Ewen]] | ||
== Worldbuilding == | == Worldbuilding == | ||
''to | * Yvonne cooks [[vol-au-vent]]s. | ||
* Yvonne lights [[candle]]s. | |||
* Yvonne serves [[sourdough]]. | |||
* [[Torchwood One]] sent [[Xylophron plasma]] to [[Porton Down]] to be locked away for ten thousand years. | |||
* [[Selena Gomez]] works at Torchwood One. | |||
* Ianto has tickets for the [[cinema]]. | |||
* [[Diane (Dinner for Yvonne)|Diane]] works for a [[charity]] which asks for people to sponsor [[goat]]s in [[Sudan]]. | |||
* [[Ken (Dinner for Yvonne)|Ken]] organises [[music festival]]s in [[Woking (town)|Woking]]. | |||
* Yvonne asks for the guests' [[mobile phone]]s to be left in a [[bowl]]. | |||
* ''[[DIY Divorce]]'' is a [[television]] show which [[Gerry (Dinner for Yvonne)|Gerry]] sold to more than twelve territories. | |||
* Kiki runs [[Kiki's Little Knicky-Knackies]]. They sell [[babygrow]]s made of [[hemp]]. | |||
* Yvonne has spent ten days preventing an ambush by a [[Krynoid war bush]]. | |||
* Yvonne serves [[soup]]. | |||
* Kiki believes that [[microwave]]s interfere with [[aura]]s. | |||
* Yvonne uses the ''[[Meadow Barn Cookbook]]''. | |||
* ''[[Brothers in Blood and Coal]]'' is a [[film]] Gerry is working on. | |||
* Gerry claims that [[Vivienne Westwood]] might play [[Margaret Thatcher]] in ''Brothers in Blood and Coal'', Diane claims that she sponsors a goat with her charity, Kiki claims that she visited her [[boutique]] and Ken claims that she is making [[clothes]] for his festival elves. | |||
* Ken believes that Yvonne works for the [[DVLA]]. | |||
* Tommy bins Yvonne's [[heritage carrot]]s and [[heirloom tomato]]es. She washes them clean. | |||
* [[Sandra Pierce]] was a good cook. | |||
* Tommy makes a [[sauce]] from [[mustard]], [[garlic]] and [[cream]]. | |||
* Gerry's film crew are filming a [[Sopwith Camel]]. | |||
* Tommy tests [[death ray]]s at work. | |||
* Ianto has a source at [[UNIT United Kingdom|UNIT]]. | |||
* Ianto suggests setting up a mobile HQ at [[Stockbridge]]. | |||
* Yvonne sends a containment team to the [[Antebellum Warehouse]] in [[Croydon]]. | |||
* Tommy enjoyed drinking [[cough syrup]] when it contained [[cocaine]] and [[morphine]]. | |||
* Gerry tried to make a pilot with [[Twiggy]]. | |||
* Yvonne saved Sudan from [[grasshopper]]s in [[2003]]. | |||
* Yvonne shut down Gerry's [[television series]] about junior [[doctor]]s because somebody was eating [[human]] organs. | |||
* Yvonne had the [[Watermelon Pips]] shot because they were [[Quaverform Soul Harvester]]s. | |||
* Gerry has a friend in [[MI5]] who is working for the [[Russia]]ns. | |||
* Gerry asks Yvonne if she would like to meet [[Lulu (in-universe)|Lulu]] and suggests [[Noel Edmonds]] as the [[narrator]] for a show about Torchwood. | |||
* Ken claims that his speakers are so finely calibrated that they made [[Jean-Michel Jarre]] cry. | |||
* Ken says that he should [[divorce]] Diane. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
''to | * ''Dinner for Yvonne'' was recorded in [[August (production)|August]] [[2023 (production)|2023]]. | ||
* According to [[James Goss]] on [[Twitter]], he and [[Joseph Lidster]] brainstormed this story together at a [[bar]] meeting.<ref>[https://twitter.com/gossjam/status/1783480759665254806?s=46&t=n1ymF6URs9Fk5Zw8aOt81A '''James Goss''' on Twitter]</ref> | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
' | * [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] is informed of [[Ianto Jones Sr|his father]]'s [[death]]. He attends the [[funeral]] shortly before [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Disco (audio story)}}. | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
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[[Category:I Hate Mondays audio stories]] | [[Category:I Hate Mondays audio stories]] | ||
[[Category:Stories set in London]] | |||
[[Category:Stories set in the 2000s]] | |||
Latest revision as of 22:47, 19 June 2024
Dinner for Yvonne was the first audio story in the anthology I Hate Mondays produced by Big Finish Productions. It featured Tracy-Ann Oberman as Yvonne Hartman, Gareth David-Lloyd as Ianto Jones and Timothy Bentinck as Tommy Pierce.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
A cloud of psychic plasma is sweeping over Salisbury Plain towards London. Unfortunately, it's Yvonne's night off and she's throwing a dinner party. Will London perish before she can serve the artisanal cheese board?
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
On Yvonne's night off, Ianto arrives at her house as she prepares for a dinner party with her Monday Supper Club and informs her that the Xylophron plasma that Torchwood One sent to Porton Down to be locked away has escaped. However, she is determined to go ahead with her dinner on account of her having missed her last three turns because of her job and demands that he leave, only to be forced to hide him in the kitchen when Ken and Diane arrive. Gerry and Kiki soon follow and Yvonne ushers them in before Tommy can reach the house, but he instead climbs in through the kitchen window. The army intend on bombarding the Xylophron and inadvertently making it stronger, so Yvonne gives Tommy permission to set up an operation room in her kitchen and send everyone available to deal with it.
Tommy boils Yvonne's chilled pea soup and she returns to the kitchen when he knocks things over whilst trying to set up his computer, learning that the Xylophron has destroyed three RAF aeroplanes. She advises Ianto and Tommy to raise a cordon to slow the Xylophron's advance and gets them to help her with her cooking, but she ruins her roast when she burns her hands taking her pork out of the oven and sends Ianto out as a butler to serve the food after washing it. Tommy makes a quick sauce with his wife's recipe and joins the dinner table to get Yvonne to return to Ianto in the kitchen. There, Ianto tells her that the Xylophron has taken over the Torchwood agents and her soufflés are in danger, so she announces to her guests that the country is in danger from poison gas.
Gerry tries to call his personal assistant to check on his crew's filming, Diane the management team of her charity as they might be needed and Ken the warehouse manager to check on his equipment for his music festivals, but Tommy has cut the mobile signal and finishes making the crème brûlée. Over dessert, Yvonne tells the guests about Torchwood and, frustrated by them, reveals that she knows that Gerry is covering up his lead actor's sex crimes, Diane's charity spends very little on actual charity, Ken's sound system has been impounded and Gerry and Diane are having an affair. Tommy convinces her to take control of the Xylophron situation, so she has Ianto access their phones to send Ken's impounded speakers to the Xylophron on a Sopworth Camel being used in Gerry's filming and get all of Diane's subscribers to turn on their microwaves to make a disruption field.
Yvonne reveals that she knows that Kiki is a telepath and that the crystals she sells release waves which Ken's speakers amplify, shattering the psychic gestalt. The plan succeeds as the Xylophron reaches London and the guests depart. Yvonne, Ianto and Tommy finish off the cheese and Ianto gets a call from the hospital informing him that his father has died.
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Yvonne Hartman - Tracy-Ann Oberman
- Ianto Jones - Gareth David-Lloyd
- Tommy Pierce - Timothy Bentinck
- Ken - Ed White
- Diane - Anniwaa Buachie
- Gerry - Ian Abeysekera
- Kiki - Lesley Ewen
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Yvonne cooks vol-au-vents.
- Yvonne lights candles.
- Yvonne serves sourdough.
- Torchwood One sent Xylophron plasma to Porton Down to be locked away for ten thousand years.
- Selena Gomez works at Torchwood One.
- Ianto has tickets for the cinema.
- Diane works for a charity which asks for people to sponsor goats in Sudan.
- Ken organises music festivals in Woking.
- Yvonne asks for the guests' mobile phones to be left in a bowl.
- DIY Divorce is a television show which Gerry sold to more than twelve territories.
- Kiki runs Kiki's Little Knicky-Knackies. They sell babygrows made of hemp.
- Yvonne has spent ten days preventing an ambush by a Krynoid war bush.
- Yvonne serves soup.
- Kiki believes that microwaves interfere with auras.
- Yvonne uses the Meadow Barn Cookbook.
- Brothers in Blood and Coal is a film Gerry is working on.
- Gerry claims that Vivienne Westwood might play Margaret Thatcher in Brothers in Blood and Coal, Diane claims that she sponsors a goat with her charity, Kiki claims that she visited her boutique and Ken claims that she is making clothes for his festival elves.
- Ken believes that Yvonne works for the DVLA.
- Tommy bins Yvonne's heritage carrots and heirloom tomatoes. She washes them clean.
- Sandra Pierce was a good cook.
- Tommy makes a sauce from mustard, garlic and cream.
- Gerry's film crew are filming a Sopwith Camel.
- Tommy tests death rays at work.
- Ianto has a source at UNIT.
- Ianto suggests setting up a mobile HQ at Stockbridge.
- Yvonne sends a containment team to the Antebellum Warehouse in Croydon.
- Tommy enjoyed drinking cough syrup when it contained cocaine and morphine.
- Gerry tried to make a pilot with Twiggy.
- Yvonne saved Sudan from grasshoppers in 2003.
- Yvonne shut down Gerry's television series about junior doctors because somebody was eating human organs.
- Yvonne had the Watermelon Pips shot because they were Quaverform Soul Harvesters.
- Gerry has a friend in MI5 who is working for the Russians.
- Gerry asks Yvonne if she would like to meet Lulu and suggests Noel Edmonds as the narrator for a show about Torchwood.
- Ken claims that his speakers are so finely calibrated that they made Jean-Michel Jarre cry.
- Ken says that he should divorce Diane.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Dinner for Yvonne was recorded in August 2023.
- According to James Goss on Twitter, he and Joseph Lidster brainstormed this story together at a bar meeting.[1]
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Ianto is informed of his father's death. He attends the funeral shortly before AUDIO: Disco [+]Loading...["Disco (audio story)"].
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official Dinner for Yvonne page at bigfinish.com
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