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|image = Winning Side, The cover.jpg
|image                 = Winning Side, The cover.jpg
|series= ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]''
|series                 = ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]''
|story number = 69
|story number           = 69
|range           = BSBS
|range                 = BSBS
|series in range = Missing Persons (audio anthology)
|series in range       = Missing Persons (audio anthology)
|series number in range = 5
|series number in range = 5
|number in series = 4
|number in series       = 4
|number = 4
|number                 = 4
|main character = [[Bernice Summerfield]]
|main character         = [[Bernice Summerfield]]
|featuring = [[The Epoch]]
|featuring             = [[The Epoch]]
|setting = [[Planet (The Winning Side)|Unnamed planet]], [[27th century]]
|setting               = [[Planet (The Winning Side)|Unnamed planet]], [[27th century]]
|writer = [[James Goss]]
|writer                 = [[James Goss]]
|director = [[Gary Russell]] and [[Scott Handcock]]
|director               = [[Gary Russell]] and [[Scott Handcock]]
|music = [[James Dunlop]] and [[Steve Foxon]]
|music                 = [[James Dunlop]] and [[Steve Foxon]]
|sound = [[Robbie Dunlop]] and [[Steve Foxon]]
|sound                 = [[Robbie Dunlop]] and [[Steve Foxon]]
|cover = [[Stuart Manning]]
|cover                 = [[Stuart Manning]]
|publisher = Big Finish Productions
|publisher             = Big Finish Productions
|release date = [[December (releases)|December]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]]
|release date           = [[December (releases)|December]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]]
|format = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>4th of 5 stories
|format                 = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>4th of 5 stories
|production code = BFPBSBOX005
|production code       = BFPBSBOX005
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-78178-102-9
|isbn                   = ISBN 978-1-78178-102-9
|prev = The Brimstone Kid (audio story)  
|prev                   = The Brimstone Kid (audio story)  
|next = In Living Memory (audio story)
|next                   = In Living Memory (audio story)
|producer = [[Gary Russell]] and [[Scott Handcock]]
|producer               = [[Gary Russell]] and [[Scott Handcock]]
|epcount=1
|epcount               = 1
}}{{Audio stub}}
}}{{Audio stub}}
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[[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice]] is lost in the ruins of [[Planet (The Winning Side)|an alien world]]. Long ago, something arrived there. Something arrived and found an idyllic civilisation: a city of wonders full of [[artist]]s and [[scientist]]s and [[poet]]s... Something came to this world and destroyed it.
[[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice]] is lost in the ruins of [[Planet (The Winning Side)|an alien world]]. Long ago, something arrived there. Something arrived and found an idyllic civilisation: a city of wonders full of [[artist]]s and [[scientist]]s and [[poet]]s... Something came to this world and destroyed it.


Wandering the ruins, Bernice tries to solve the mystery. What came to this planet? What wiped out its people? Was it a plague? An alien invasion?
Wandering the ruins, Bernice tries to solve the [[mystery]]. What came to this planet? What wiped out its people? Was it a [[plague]]? An [[alien invasion]]?


Bernice Summerfield explores all that remains of paradise. And she discovers the name of the creature that came and wiped it out...
Bernice Summerfield explores all that remains of paradise. And she discovers the name of the creature that came and wiped it out...
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== Plot ==
== Plot ==
''to be added''
''[[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]'s [[escape pod]] crashes into [[planet (The Winning Side)|a planet]] and she wanders the [[desert]]. She comes across a ruined [[city]] on her third day and notices a [[statue]] of herself with an inscription calling her the Woman Who Killed the World. Around the statue are [[tablet]]s and [[graffiti]] telling the story of how she arrived from nowhere.''
 
After falling from the [[sky]] as a result of a [[transmat]], Benny is labelled a Sky Witch and taken to [[Theon|King Theon]] in the [[Planet of Eternal Dreams]], who is advised by [[Meriol]] to burn her. He ignores him and they become close, but Meriol continues to warn him that they are doomed as a result of her arrival. When a [[plague]] breaks out, Benny decides to help cure it, in part to restore the reputation of herself and Theon, and traces it to a [[spaceship]] in the [[forest]]. She takes Theon there after accepting his [[marriage]] proposal and watching him dismiss Meriol and explains that it is leaking [[radiation]].
 
''to be completed''


== Cast ==
== Cast ==
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* [[First Yokel]] - [[Gary Russell]]
* [[First Yokel]] - [[Gary Russell]]
* [[Second Yokel]] - [[Brett Underwood]]
* [[Second Yokel]] - [[Brett Underwood]]
* [[Yokel Child]] - [[Katy Manning]]
* [[Yuna|Yokel Child]] - [[Katy Manning]]
* [[The Epoch]] - [[Michael Thomson]]
* [[The Epoch]] - [[Michael Thomson]]


== References ==
== References ==
''to be added''
* Theon lives in the [[Planet of Eternal Dreams]].
* The [[Institute of Sciences]] look into the [[plague]].
* Benny calls Theon [[Germaine Greer]].
* The plague causes [[lesion]]s and [[lump]]s.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==

Revision as of 00:02, 2 February 2023

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The Winning Side was the sixty-ninth Bernice Summerfield audio story released by Big Finish Productions. It was the fourth story of the Missing Persons series.

Publisher's summary

Bernice is lost in the ruins of an alien world. Long ago, something arrived there. Something arrived and found an idyllic civilisation: a city of wonders full of artists and scientists and poets... Something came to this world and destroyed it.

Wandering the ruins, Bernice tries to solve the mystery. What came to this planet? What wiped out its people? Was it a plague? An alien invasion?

Bernice Summerfield explores all that remains of paradise. And she discovers the name of the creature that came and wiped it out...

'Bernice Summerfield'

Plot

Benny's escape pod crashes into a planet and she wanders the desert. She comes across a ruined city on her third day and notices a statue of herself with an inscription calling her the Woman Who Killed the World. Around the statue are tablets and graffiti telling the story of how she arrived from nowhere.

After falling from the sky as a result of a transmat, Benny is labelled a Sky Witch and taken to King Theon in the Planet of Eternal Dreams, who is advised by Meriol to burn her. He ignores him and they become close, but Meriol continues to warn him that they are doomed as a result of her arrival. When a plague breaks out, Benny decides to help cure it, in part to restore the reputation of herself and Theon, and traces it to a spaceship in the forest. She takes Theon there after accepting his marriage proposal and watching him dismiss Meriol and explains that it is leaking radiation.

to be completed

Cast

References

Notes

to be added

Continuity

to be added

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