Luna Romana (audio story)

Luna Romana
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companion(s):	Romana I Romana II
Featuring:	Quadrigger Stoyn Romana
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Matt Fitton
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Music:	Richard Fox and Lauren Yason
Sound:	Richard Fox and Lauren Yason
Read by:	Lalla Ward Juliet Landau Terry Molloy
Release details
Release number:	8.07
Release date:	January 2014
Format:	4 Parts, 2 CD
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-089-3
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Luna Romana was the seventy-fifth release in the Companion Chronicles audio range. It was the seventh story of season 8. Uniquely, it featured both televised incarnations of Romana, as well as another. It was thus, as of 2014, the only example of a "multi-Romana story".

Publisher's summary

The search for the final segment of the Key to Time takes the Doctor and the First Romana to Ancient Rome. The Time Lady is appalled when her companion prefers to watch the latest Plautus comedy rather than complete their mission, and is even less delighted to meet the playwright himself.

But all is not what it seems, either onstage or behind the scenes...

In the far, far future, the Second Romana is destined to have her own encounter with a legacy of Rome, but Stoyn has been waiting. And his actions will set Romana on a collision course with her own past.

Quadrigger Stoyn wants his final revenge on the Doctor, and only Romana stands in his way.

Both of her.

Plot

Part One

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Part Two

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Part Three

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Part Four

to be added

Cast

• Romana - Lalla Ward
• Romana - Juliet Landau
• Quaddriger Stoyn - Terry Molloy

and

• Romana - Mary Tamm (uncredited; archival recordings)

References

• Romana has gathered that the Doctor rarely attended the Academy on Gallifrey.
• Stoyn shows Romana and the Doctor images from their past adventures, including Paris (TV: City of Death), Cornwall (TV: The Stones of Blood), and Cambridge (TV: Shada). Additional images are shown of the First Doctor (TV: The Reign of Terror), Second Doctor (TV: The Web of Fear) and the Third Doctor (TV: The Sea Devils and Invasion of the Dinosaurs).
• The sequence where Romana meets herself and instructs her to enter the vortex is similar to what happens to Amy Pond in TV: Space and Time. Romana even tells her earlier self "this is where it gets complicated" as Amy told herself.
• The Doctor says he's visited an alternate future where the Roman Empire never fell but didn't enjoy it very much. (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Iron Legion)
• K-9 spent time playing games with the TARDIS computer while marooned in the TARDIS during their recent visit to Delta III (TV: The Power of Kroll).

Notes

• This story was recorded on 18 September and 4 October 2012.
• Although Juliet Landau performs the voice of Romana I, archival recordings of Mary Tamm taken from her Big Finish appearances are also featured.

Continuity

• The future Romana states that Gallifrey has entered its "darkest hour again", implying that there have been Time Wars before the one she appears to be facing. Romana III faced a war in PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon; AUDIO: Renaissance establishes that the Romana portrayed by Landau is a later incarnation, not the third.

External links

• Official Luna Romana page at bigfinish.com