An Ocean of Sawdust (audio story)

An Ocean of Sawdust
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Paul Starkey
Read by:	Stephen Critchlow
Release details
Release number:	40
Release date:	3 October 2019
Format:	Audiobook
Subscriber Short Trips
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An Ocean of Sawdust was the fortieth Subscriber Short Trips audio story. It featured the Eighth Doctor and was available to subscribers of Big Finish's main Doctor Who range whose subscription included Harry Houdini's War and Tartarus.

Publisher's summary

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Plot

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Characters

• Eighth Doctor
• Samuel
• Kestrians

Worldbuilding

• The Doctor recalls a visit to Russia in the 1950s, some time after the Russian Revolution.

Notes

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Continuity

• The love of wood and craftsmanship that the Eighth Doctor holds appears to have carried through from a previous incarnation. (PROSE: Model Train Set)
• When asked if he was really "a doctor", the Doctor replied that he was actually "the Doctor". (TV: Robot et al)
• The Doctor defeats the Kestrians by singing a lullaby. The Eleventh Doctor also successfully used singing (albeit in part) to defeat Akhaten. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten)
• The Doctor feels a "childhood fear" of dangling his legs over the side of the bed, which he considers a "childhood recollection" tingling in his memory. (TV: Listen)
• The Doctor in anger comes up with multiple ways to destroy the Kestrians or go back in time to wipe them from existence, but refrains because he "was not that kind of man — not a warrior, or a killer". This would change in his regeneration to the War Doctor. (TV: The Night of the Doctor)