The Galileo Trap (audio story)

The Galileo Trap
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Liv Chenka, Helen Sinclair
Main enemy:	Cleaver, Fortuna
Main setting:	Florence, 1639
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Marc Platt
Director:	Ken Bentley
Music:	Wilfredo Acosta
Sound:	Wilfredo Acosta
Cover by:	Tom Webster
Release details
Release number:	1.3
Part of:	Doom Coalition 1
Release date:	12 October 2015
Format:	1 X 1 hour
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-306-1
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The Galileo Trap was the third audio story in the anthology Doom Coalition 1. It starred Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Nicola Walker as Liv Chenka, and Hattie Morahan as Helen Sinclair.

Publisher's summary

Helen Sinclair doesn't know what hit her. One moment she was trapped in a dead-end job in 1960s London, and now she is transported back to Renaissance Italy over three centuries before. Florence is a city in turmoil. A new plague stalks the streets. A ferocious behemoth rampages through the vineyards. And Galileo Galilei, celebrated scientist, astronomer and old friend of the Doctor, is imprisoned in his own villa for heresy.

But why has Galileo summoned the Doctor? Who are the mysterious Fortuna and Cleaver? Why have they been sent to Earth? And what is Galileo's secret? Is it the last thing he saw before he went blind?

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Liv Chenka - Nicola Walker
• Helen Sinclair - Hattie Morahan
• Galileo Galilei - John Woodvine
• Virginia - Esther Hall
• Cavalli - Gunnar Cauthery
• Count Licori - Ewan Bailey
• Cleaver - Harry Myers
• The Eleven - Mark Bonnar
• Beggar Woman - Lizzie Mounter
• Monk/Youth - John Banks

References

• Helen has a box brownie camera.
• Virginia Galilei died in 1634.
• Galileo's theory of heliocentrism was inspired by Copernicus.

Notes

• This story was recorded at The Moat Studios.

Continuity

• Helen is shocked to have travelled 300 years in the past. (AUDIO: The Red Lady)
• Virginia taught the Doctor to play the recorder when she was only around 10 years old. (TV: The Power of the Daleks et al.)
• The Doctor previously met Galileo in his first incarnation. (PROSE: The Empire of Glass)

External links

• Official Doom Coalition 1 page at bigfinish.com