The Stones of Venice (audio story)

The Stones of Venice (audio story)

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The Stones of Venice
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eighth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Charley Pollard
Main enemy:	Estella
Main setting:	Venice, Earth 23rd century
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Paul Magrs
Director:	Gary Russell
Producer:	Andy Hardwick
Release details
Release number:	18
Release date:	March 2001
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	8D
ISBN:	ISBN 1-903654-25-4

Publisher's summary

The Doctor and Charley decide to take a well-deserved break from the monotony of being chased, shot at and generally suffering anti-social behaviour at the hands of others.

And so they end up in Venice, well into Charley's future, as the great city prepares to sink beneath the water for the last time...

Which would be a momentous, if rather dispiriting, event to witness in itself. However, the machinations of a love-stick aristocrat, a proud art historian and a rabid High Priest of a really quite dodgy cult combine to make Venice's swansong a night to remember.

And then there's the rebellion by the web-footed amphibious underclass, the mystery of a disappearing corpse and the truth behind a curse going back further than curses usually do.

The Doctor and Charley are forced to wonder just what they have got themselves involved with this time...

Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Charley Pollard - India Fisher
• Orsino - Michael Sheard
• Churchwell - Nick Scovell
• Pietro - Barnaby Edwards
• Ms Lavish / Estella - Elaine Ives-Cameron
• Vincenzo - Mark Gatiss

References

The Doctor likens the cult worshiping Estella to Liza Minelli being the daughter of Judy Garland.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

to be added

Timeline

• The Stones of Venice occurs after ST: Best Seller
• The Stones of Venice occurs before BFA: Minuet in Hell

External links

• Big Finish The Stones of Venice page
• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of The Stones of Venice
• The Discontinuity Guide The Stones of Venice page