Dust Breeding (audio story)

Dust Breeding (audio story)

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Dust Breeding
Doctor:	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Ace
Main enemy:	Krill Mr. Seta
Main setting:	Duchamp 331
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writer:	Mike Tucker
Director:	Gary Russell
Release details
Release number:	21
Release date:	June 2001
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	7T
ISBN:	ISBN 1-903654-33-5

Publisher's summary

On nineteenth-century Earth, artist Edvard Munch hears an infinite scream pass through nature. Centuries later, his painting of that Scream hangs in a gallery on the barren dust world Duchamp 331.

Why is there a colony of artists on a planet that is little more than a glorified garage? What is the event that the passengers of the huge, opulent pleasure cruiser 'Gallery' are hoping to see? And what is hidden in the crates that litter the cargo hold?

The Doctor's diary indicates that the painting is about to be destroyed in "mysterious circumstances", and when he and Ace arrive on Duchamp 331, those circumstances are well underway.

Cast

• The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Ace - Sophie Aldred
• Bev Tarrant - Louise Falkner
• Mr. Seta - Geoffrey Beevers
• Madame Salvadori - Caroline John
• Klemp - Mark Donovan
• Guthrie - Ian Ricketts
• Damien Pierson - Johnson Willis
• Jay Binks - Gary Russell
• Albert Bootle - Alistair Lock
• Maggie - Jane Goddard
• Skredsvig - Jez Fielder

References

• Mr. Seta is an anagram of Master (mind you, it's ONLY an anagram when written like that, Mister Seta doesn't work as an anagram).
• The Warp Core strips the Trakenite aspects of the Master's body, leaving only the decaying Time Lord, which is a contradiction of First Frontier where the Tzun cure the Master of the Cheetah Virus AND the corrupted Trakenite DNA.

Notes

• This story marks the first appearance of The Master in an audio play.
• Some of the character names are derived from famous artists - Madam Salvadori (Salvador Dali), Klemp (Gustav Klimt) and Damien Pierson (Damien Hurst).
• The planet Duchamp is named after French-born US artist Marcel Duchamp. In 1920, Man Ray photographed the dust accumulating on the surface of Duchamp's "Large Glass" construction; the resulting image was titled Dust Breeding.

Continuity

• The Krill previously appeared in Storm Harvest.
• Bev Tarrant last appeared in The Genocide Machine and would later go on to appear in the Big Finish Productions Bernice Summerfield Series.
• Geoffrey Beevers appeared as Private Johnson in DW: The Ambassadors of Death and as The Master in DW: The Keeper of Traken.

Timeline

• Dust Breeding occurs after PDA: Atom Bomb Blues
• Dust Breeding occurs before BFA: Colditz

External links

• Official Dust Breeding page at bigfinish.com
• Dust Breeding at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Dust Breeding at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide