Just War (audio story)

Just War
Adapted from:	Just War
Main character(s):	Bernice Summerfield
Featuring:	Jason Kane
Main enemy:	Oberst Oskar Steinmann Standardtenfuhrer Joachim Wolff The Nazis
Main setting:	Guernsey, 1941 Nazi Germany, 1941
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Based on a novel by Lance Parkin Adapted for Audio by Jacqueline Rayner
Director:	Gary Russell
Producer:	Gary Russell
Music:	Harvey Summers
Sound:	Harvey Summers
Post production:	Harvey Summers
Cover by:	Nik Spender
Release details
Story number:	5
Release number:	5
Release date:	August 1999
Format:	2 CDs
Production code:	BFPCD5
ISBN:	ISBN 1-903654-35-1
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Just War was the fifth Bernice Summerfield audio drama produced by Big Finish Productions. It was the third in a trilogy of stories known as the "Time Ring Trilogy" whose arc element was the use of Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane's wedding time rings, given to them when they were married in PROSE: Happy Endings.

Like Birthright this was adapted from a Virgin New Adventures novel, rather than from a Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures which featured Bernice without the Doctor. The original novel of Just War featured the Seventh Doctor, Bernice Summerfield, Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester. For this audio adapation Bernice's role remains intact, whilst Jason Kane takes on a combination of the other characters' roles in the plot.

Just War also contained Evelyn Smythe actor Maggie Stables' first work for Big Finish. Like Colin Baker in the previous episode, Stables debuted here before going on to play a co-starring character for the main Doctor Who monthly line.

Publisher's summary

"Tomorrow belongs to us, not you. If you were really from the future, Miss Summerfield, you would be a Nazi."

The Nazis occupy British soil and British citizens are being deported to European concentration camps. Those who do not co-operate with the Germans are shot.

This isn't a parallel universe: this is Guernsey, 1941, and it's where Bernice is stranded. With no sign of Jason, she has to endure the full horror of the situation, alone and afraid.

And something, somewhere has gone wrong. The Nazis are building a secret weapon, one that will have a decisive effect on the outcome of the war - and it's up to Benny to put history back on course...

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
• Jason Kane - Stephen Fewell
• Oberst Oskar Steinmann - Michael Wade
• Standardtenfuhrer Joachim Wolff - Mark Gatiss
• Ma Doras - Maggie Stables
• Nurse Rosa Kitzel - Nicky Golding
• Private Franz Hutter - Anthony Keetch
• Private Gerhard Flur - Simon Moore

References

to be added

Notes

Both contradictory accounts of her visit to Guernsey (PROSE: Just War, AUDIO: Just War) appear to have taken place (PROSE: Paydirt) and Bernice was able to recall them both. (PROSE: Dear Friend)

Continuity

• Jason mentions recently travelling to Babylon, (AUDIO: Walking to Babylon) and defeating insects in 1909. (AUDIO: Birthright)

External links

• Official Just War page at bigfinish.com
• Just War at the Doctor Who Reference Guide