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* Graham O'Brien recalls the circumstances of his meeting with [[Ada Lovelace]], [[Noor Inayat Khan]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Spyfall (TV story)|Spyfall]]'') | * Graham O'Brien recalls the circumstances of his meeting with [[Ada Lovelace]], [[Noor Inayat Khan]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Spyfall (TV story)|Spyfall]]'') [[Nikola Tesla]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror (TV story)|Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror]]'') and [[Mary Shelley]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Haunting of Villa Diodati (TV story)|The Haunting of Villa Diodati]]'') | ||
* [[Ada Lovelace]] died of an illness in [[1852]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') and her part in the development of computers went unacknowledged for around a century after her passing. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Enchantress of Numbers (audio story)|The Enchantress of Numbers]]'') | * [[Ada Lovelace]] died of an illness in [[1852]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') and her part in the development of computers went unacknowledged for around a century after her passing. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Enchantress of Numbers (audio story)|The Enchantress of Numbers]]'') | ||
[[Category:2021 DWAN short stories]] | [[Category:2021 DWAN short stories]] | ||
Revision as of 16:05, 9 March 2023
History's Finest was a short story published in September 2020 in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2021. It was narrated by Graham O'Brien.
Summary
Graham O'Brien looks back on the "cracking people from Earth's history" that he has met in the flesh thanks to the Doctor and investigates what happened to each of them after their encounter with the time-travellers in the blue box.
Characters
References
- Ada Lovelace died in 1852 after "many years of ill health" and Mary Shelley in 1851.
- Nikola Tesla met the Doctor in 1903 and died forty years later, in 1943.
Story notes
to be added
Continuity
- Graham O'Brien recalls the circumstances of his meeting with Ada Lovelace, Noor Inayat Khan, (TV: Spyfall) Nikola Tesla (TV: Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror) and Mary Shelley. (TV: The Haunting of Villa Diodati)
- Ada Lovelace died of an illness in 1852 (PROSE: The Book of the War) and her part in the development of computers went unacknowledged for around a century after her passing. (AUDIO: The Enchantress of Numbers)
