Fond Farewell (audio story)

Fond Farewell
Doctor:	Ninth Doctor
Companion(s):	Sasha
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	David K Barnes
Director:	Helen Goldwyn
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Iain Meadows
Cover by:	Tom Webster
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	4.1
Part of:	Old Friends
Release date:	16 February 2022
Format:	1 CD Download Vinyl 1st of 3 stories
Production code:	BFPDW9TH04
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-83868-346-7 (physical); ISBN 978-1-83868-347-4 (digital)
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Fond Farewell was the first story in the audio anthology Old Friends, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by David K Barnes and featured Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor.

Publisher's summary

Fond Farewell is the intergalactic funeral parlour with a difference: the deceased attend their own wake! Invited by celebrated naturalist Flynn Beckett to his memorial, the Doctor finds he's not quite the man he was. But who would steal the memories of the dead?

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - Christopher Eccleston
• Professor Flynn Beckett / Other Flynn - James Doherty
• Idara Beckett - Sienna Guillory
• Thomas / Attendants - Charlie Hamblett
• Winifred Whitby - Juliet Stevenson
• Sasha Yan - Emily Taaffe

Worldbuilding

• The Doctor intends to visit another old friend and notes that "a lot's happened" since he last saw him.

Notes

• The Doctor feels he has romantic chemistry with Flynn Beckett, but never pursued it since he never asked.

Continuity

to be added

Cover gallery

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  Alternate cover

External links

• Official Fond Farewell page at bigfinish.com