The Bleeding Heart (audio story)

The Bleeding Heart
Doctor:	Ninth Doctor
Featuring:	Adriana
Main setting:	Galen
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Cavan Scott
Director:	Helen Goldwyn
Producer:	David Richardson and Scott Handcock
Music:	Ioan Morris, Rhys Downing
Sound:	Joe Meiners
Read by:	Nicholas Briggs
Cover by:	Tom Webster
Release details
Release number:	1
Release date:	4 May 2017
Format:	1 CD
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78703-223-1
The Ninth Doctor Chronicles
Next →	The Window on the Moor

The Bleeding Heart was the first story of The Ninth Doctor Chronicles, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Cavan Scott, performed by Nicholas Briggs and Claire Wyatt and featured the Ninth Doctor.

Publisher's summary

Galen is a place where people come to heal. The renowned "planet of peace" seems the ideal venue for talks between two warring races. But when death disrupts the diplomacy, Cosmic Nine news reporter Adriana Jarsdel uncovers a different story. Luckily, someone is there to help. A battle-weary veteran from another war. The Doctor has come to Galen – but is he looking for peace, or something else entirely?

Plot

Searching for a place to gather his thoughts on the outcome of the Time War, the Doctor went to Galen, where he found that something was causing the people on the planet to want to kill. Teaming up with news reporter Adriana Jarsdel, he found that it was being caused by a rift in interstitial space, created by Rassilonand the Time Lords during the Time War to trap a race called the Compassionate. Setting his war incarnation's sonic screwdriver to explode, the Doctor prepared to throw himself into the rift to seal it, and sacrifice himself in the process, but was intercepted by Adriana, who took the screwdriver and sacrificed herself instead. In doing so, they managed to seal the rift and left the Compassionate trapped on the other side, unable to influence the universe any more.

Cast

• Adriana Jarsdel - Claire Wyatt
• Narrator - Nicholas Briggs

Uncredited cast

• Ninth Doctor - Nicholas Briggs (BFX: The Ninth Doctor Chronicles)

References

• Adriana reported on the riots on Slarvia.
• The Doctor uses his psychic paper on Adriana and several others; he fails to convince Adriana that he represents the BBC Transworld Service.
• The psychic paper doesn't work on Adriana due to her psychic abilities.
• Adjudicator Krylon allows the Doctor crime scene access after he uses the psychic paper on her.
• The Doctor uses Article 27 of the Shadow Proclamation to requisition Adriana's recording equipment.
• Horajians relax by bathing in mud.
• Rassilon sealed the Compassionate in a rift at the heart of Galen during the Last Great Time War.

Story notes

• Adriana Jarsdel works for Cosmic 9 News.
• Galen is the name of a famous healer from antiquity.
• This story is set before the events of TV: Rose, as the Ninth Doctor still has the War Doctor's sonic screwdriver.
• In-universe this marks the second chronological appearance of the Ninth Doctor, the first being the regeneration of his war incarnation in The Day of the Doctor.

Continuity

• Adriana Jarsdel asks if the Ninth Doctor has been on Gharusa all this time because he is not aware of the peace talks. The Doctor later visits Gharusa Prime with Rose Tyler and Jack Harkness. (COMIC: Doctormania)
• The Doctor's sonic screwdriver has a red light at the top. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
• The phrase "like a Catkind who got the cream" is used. (TV: New Earth, Gridlock)
• The Doctor uses the phrase "running about like a headless Krafayis". (TV: Vincent and the Doctor)
• Adriana sees visions of a girl in the Doctor's future, taking his hand and helping him heal from his dark past. (TV: Rose)
• The Doctor invites Adriana to travel with him, only to have her die soon after; this will become a common occurrence in his future. (TV: The Parting of the Ways, The Girl in the Fireplace, Voyage of the Damned, The Snowmen, The God Complex, Death in Heaven)

External links

• Official The Bleeding Heart page at bigfinish.com