Sabbath Dei (audio story)

Sabbath Dei
Script release:	online here
Main character(s):	Justine, Eliza
Featuring:	Lord Sandwich
Main enemy:	Sabbath, Lolita
Main setting:	London, 1762
Key crew
Publisher:	BBV Productions
Writer:	Lawrence Miles
Director:	Nigel Fairs
Release details
Release number:	3
Release date:	February 2003
Format:	1 CD
ISBN:	none
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You may be looking for the featured Service agent of the same name.

Sabbath Dei was a 2003 audio story in the Faction Paradox series.

Publisher's summary

Faction Paradox website

Faction Paradox re-introduces itself at Buckingham Palace; Mr. Sabbath of London plays cards with a lady of questionable birth; a society party is interrupted by a quite fashionable subterranean horror; the King of England demonstrates a remarkable new war machine; justice finds itself a new body to wear; and an arrangement's made in blood while Justine flirts with treason.

BBV Productions website

PRIMER FOR THE SPIRAL POLITIC (POST-WAR EDITION)
3: SABBATH DEI (1740 - 1782 AD?)

Era: Human historical (pre-industrial period).
Technology: Acquired, ritual time-awareness.

Right from its creation, the secret intelligence service of Great Britain was touched by a streak of ritual: its initiations were usually occult, its codes based on astrological or alchemical cyphers. When Faction Paradox first entered Earth history in the 1700s, the Service took an immediate interest in the new arrivals' own ritual practices, and in the inevitable feud between British and Faction agents no single figure was as important as Sabbath. He’s now remembered as one of the few individuals to bring his own agenda to the War...

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Cousin Justine - Suzanne Proctor
• Lord Sandwich - Michael Chance
• The Sieur d'Eon - Jo Castleton
• Cousin Eliza - Emma Kilbey
• Mistress Culver - Jackie Skarvellis
• King George III - Eric MacLennan
• Queen Charlotte - Caroline Burns-Cook
• The Earl of Bute - Mark Grieg
• The Lady / Annabel - Linda Bartram
• Sabbath - Saul Jaffe

Worldbuilding

to be added

Notes

• Sabbath's last name is only mentioned in the publisher's summary of this audio; it is never used in the audios themselves or in any of the other stories in which he appears.
• The letters "FACT" were hidden in the skulls on the page for this story on the Faction Paradox website.

Continuity

• Mary Culver and her 1762 ritual were previously mentioned in PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street] ^[+]Loading...["The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)","The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]"] and PROSE: This Town Will Never Let Us Go.

External links

• Official Sabbath Dei page at bbvproductions.co.uk
• Script of Sabbath Dei at factionparadox.co.uk
• Sabbath Dei at the Faction Paradox wiki
• Sabbath Dei at the Doctor Who Reference Guide