Shadow of a Doubt (audio story)

Shadow of a Doubt
Main character(s):	Bernice Summerfield
Featuring:	Aphasia
Main setting:	Andromeda
Key crew
Writer:	Paul Cornell
Producer:	Emily Cook
Music:	Jamie Robertson
Sound:	Jamie Robertson
Read by:	Lisa Bowerman
Illustrator:	Rachael Stott
Release details
Premiere broadcast:	24 April 2020
Premiere network:	YouTube
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Shadow of a Doubt was an audio story that was made specifically for the Doctor Who: Lockdown! event. It was the first of two stories written by Paul Cornell to coincide with the watchalong of Human Nature / The Family of Blood.

Plot

In the ruins of Andromeda, Bernice Summerfield finds a mirror from Earth, in which she speaks to Daughter of Mine, who talks about the Doctors who have met her.

A few years later, Benny comes back, but the mirror was gone.

Characters

• Bernice Summerfield
• Daughter of Mine

Crew

• Written by Paul Cornell
• Read by Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield
• Music and Sound Design by Jamie Robertson
• Artwork by Rachael Stott
• Video Edited by Abigail Scarfe
• Produced by Emily Cook

Worldbuilding

• Daughter of Mine recalls being visited by many different Doctors, once a month, forever. She was visited by:
  • The old one with all the hair who had been "the worst".
  • The one Benny travelled with who had also been "the worst".
  • The thin white aristocrat.
  • The one who couldn't walk.
  • The one with red hair who thought he was the last.
• Daughter of Mine recalls the Doctor describing themselves as a "story that happened many times in many ways".

Story notes

• This story serves as the second part of a "shadow" trilogy by Paul Cornell, which began with The Shadow Passes and ended with The Shadow in the Mirror. Two other Paul Cornell stories use the word ‘shadow’ in the title; The Shadow of the Scourge and The Shadows of Avalon, but these were published decades earlier and Cornell does not consider these to be official entries into the ‘shadow’ saga.
• This story was published in prose format in Adventures in Lockdown.

Continuity

• Daughter of Mine asked the Doctors how she could be sorry for a story that happened many times in many ways, not all of which she was even present for. (PROSE: Human Nature, TV: Human Nature, The Family of Blood, AUDIO: Master)
• Benny returned to the ruins many years later to find the mirror had gone. (WC: The Shadow in the Mirror)