Brave New Town (audio story)

Brave New Town
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Lucie
Main enemy:	Nestene Consciousness, Autons
Main setting:	Thorington and Safshika, 24 October 2008
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Jonathan Clements
Director:	Jason Haigh-Ellery
Producer:	David Richardson, Sharon Gosling, Barnaby Edwards
Music:	Andy Hardwick
Sound:	Gareth Jenkins
Cover by:	Grant Kempster
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	2.3
Release date:	March 2008
Format:	1 CD Download
Production code:	BFPDWCDMG011
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-304-0 (physical) ISBN 978-1-78178-486-0 (digital)
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Brave New Town was the third story in the second series of the Eighth Doctor Adventures, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Jonathan Clements and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller.

This story marked the first time that the Nestene Consciousness and the Autons had appeared in an audio story.

Publisher's summary

It's like The Village That Time Forgot!

The inhabitants of the quiet seaside town of Thorington in Suffolk are living the same day over and over again. What's so special about the 1st of September 1991? Why haven't the villagers noticed that the same song has been number one for years? And just where on Earth has the sea disappeared to? The Doctor and Lucie must solve the mystery before the 'visitors' return...

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Lucie Miller - Sheridan Smith
• Jason Taylor - Derek Griffiths
• McCarthy - Adrian Dunbar
• Sally Taylor - Lorna Want
• PC Sharp / Karimov - Nick Wilton
• Margaret / Vitas - Katarina Olsson

Crew

• Cover Art - Grant Kempster
• Director - Jason Haigh-Ellery
• Executive Producer - Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
• Music - Andy Hardwick
• Producers - David Richardson, Sharon Gosling and Barnaby Edwards
• Script Editor - Alan Barnes
• Sound Design - Gareth Jenkins
• Writer - Jonathan Clements
• Autons and Nestene Consciousness created by Robert Holmes

Worldbuilding

Individuals

• Lucie was born on 31 July 1988.

Locations

• Uzbekistan is located in Central Asia.
  • Its capital in 2008 is Tashkent.
  • Uzbek and Russian are spoken there.
  • It gained its independence from the Soviet Union on 1 September 1991.

• The Aral Sea is located, at least partially, in Uzbekistan.
  • Thorington was originally located on an island in the Aral Sea, however with the Aral Sea dried up, it was no longer an island.
  • The sea dried up after water was taken for cotton fields, rice plots, swimming pools, among others.

Notes

• This story marks the first appearance of the Nestene Consciousness and the Autons in an audio drama.
• This audio drama was recorded on 14 August 2007 at the Moat Studios.
• In this story, Lucie makes specific reference to not being able to read Russian, an example of the apparently inconsistently limited functionality of the translation circuit.
• The story was broadcast on BBC Radio 7 on 2 November 2008.
• The story was originally released on CD and download.

Continuity

• During his second incarnation, the Doctor previously visited Uzbekistan in August 1919 in the company of Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriotduring the audio drama The Memory Cheats)
• Sentient Autons like the ones seen in this story would later appear in TV: The Pandorica Opens.
• The Doctor mentions the Auton meteorites that fell to Earth in the 1970s, which occured in TV: Spearhead from Space)
• The events of this audio are still in the Doctor's memory when he is in his tenth incarnation, as he references it in PROSE: Autonomy)

External links

• Official Brave New Town page at bigfinish.com
• Brave New Town at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Brave New Town at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide