The Revolution Game (audio story)

The Revolution Game
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Lucie
Main enemy:	Spartacus
Main setting:	Castus Sigma, 3025
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Alice Cavender
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Producer:	Scott Handcock
Music:	Jamie Robertson
Sound:	Iain Meadows
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	1.2
Release date:	10 July 2019
Format:	1 CD Download 2nd of 4 stories
Production code:	BFPDWCDMG047
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78703-740-3 (physical); ISBN 978-1-78703-741-0 (digital)
The Eighth Doctor: The Further Adventures of Lucie Miller
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The Revolution Game was the second story in The Eighth Doctor: The Further Adventures of Lucie Miller: Volume One, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Alice Cavender and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller.

Publisher's summary

It's Lucie's birthday, and her birthday treat awaits. But whatever she's expecting, it's not what she’s getting on the colony world of Castus Sigma in the year 3025: ringside seats for the interplanetary Retro Roller Derby – sponsored by Heliacorp, "turning sunlight into gold"!

It's more than just a game, though. For the competitors, it's a matter of life or death – a New Life with Heliacorp, or a living death on Castus Sigma.

Or, on this fateful day, a very actual death. Because there are strange creatures living out on the plain, beyond the colony. Creatures with every reason to want to sabotage the games. Creatures with a grudge.

Plot

Lucie, who calculates that it is long past her birthday, asks the Doctor for a birthday surprise. Setting the TARDIS to arrive somewhere at random, they arrive in a desert on Castus Sigma at a time when the area should be an oasis. They pick up a transmission advertising the Retro Roller Derby, exciting Lucie and prompting her to reverse her decision to leave.

The Doctor and Lucie meet Sash and George, the latter of whom has been injured. Lucie goes with Sash and George to the medicentre on an automatic buggy whilst the Doctor lags behind on foot, soon encountering the buggy's irritated owner, Clegg.

to be completed

Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Lucie Miller - Sheridan Smith
• Clegg - Jonathan Keeble
• Sash - Madeline Duggan
• George / Spartacus - Tom Alexander
• Tallulah - Alicia Ambrose-Bayly

References

• Lucie comments that her mother, Mary Miller, was once "Queen of the Golden Wheels Roller Disco at the Palatine Blackpool".
• Lucie states that her mother got her a pair of rollerblades for her 13th birthday, after which Susie Dugdale challenged her to race a milk float down Waterloo Road.
• Lucie has increased strength and agility due to the lower gravity on Castus Sigma, causing her to say that she feels like the Bionic Woman.
• Clegg mentions hyenoids.
• The Doctor quotes "A Better Resurrection" by Christina Rossetti.
• The camps outside the colonies had "movie nights". Movies shown included Spartacus and Rain Man.
• Lucie mentions Lois Lane and Superman.

Notes

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Continuity

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External links

• Official The Revolution Game page at bigfinish.com