The Darkness of Glass (audio story)

The Darkness of Glass
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companion(s):	Leela
Main setting:	Britain, 1907
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Justin Richards
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Music:	Jamie Robertson
Sound:	Jamie Robertson
Cover by:	Anthony Lamb
Release details
Release number:	4.02
Release date:	12 February 2015
Format:	2 Parts, 1 CD
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-349-8
Official trailer
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The Darkness of Glass was the second story in the fourth series of Fourth Doctor Adventures.

Publisher's summary

Cut off from the TARDIS, the Doctor and Leela find themselves stranded on a small island. But they are not alone. It is 1907, and members of the Caversham Society have gathered on the hundredth anniversary of the death of Mannering Caversham, the greatest Magic Lanternist who ever lived.

But Caversham was also a supernaturalist who claimed to have conjured up a demon from the depths of hell. As people start to die, the Doctor begins to wonder if Caversham's story might have more than a grain of truth in it. Can the Doctor and Leela discover what really happened to Caversham a century ago? And if they do, will they live to tell the tale..?

Plot

Part one

to be added

Part two

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Tom Baker
• Leela - Louise Jameson
• Professor Oliver Mortlake - Mark Lewis Jones
• Joseph Holman - Julian Wadham
• Mary Summersby - Sinead Keenan
• David Lacey - Rory Keenan

References

to be added

Notes

• The idea for this story came from a line in the T.S. Eliot poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": "...as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen". The original title was A Pattern of Nerves. (VOR 72)

Continuity

• The Doctor and Leela both mention Fang Rock. (TV: Horror of Fang Rock)

External links

• Official The Darkness of Glass page at bigfinish.com