The Revolution (audio story)
The Revolution was the first full cast audio story in The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield audio anthology released in 2014 by Big Finish Productions.
Publisher's summary
On the planet of Arviem 2, Bernice Summerfield has a lot of problems. Pursued by robots, maniacs and miracles, she has another issue to contend with. The Doctor's come looking for her – and he's not feeling himself.
Plot
Benny gets drunk at Renk Van Magnastein's themed bar on Arviem 2 and passes out, after which she notices that he seems to have changed his shirt and grown a beard. Inquisitor Xavier and a robot of the Faculty Police come to arrest her for blasphemy against science. Renk hides her by putting a blast visor on her and, once they have gone, Benny realises that the Doctor is hanging on the wall in suspended animation. He wakes up, not feeling himself, and leaves with Benny on Renk's hoverbike.
Chased by robots, Benny and the Doctor arrive at the transit port to fly to South Arvemia and find it empty. Benny exploits the robots' obsession with science by saying that they could disprove Schrödinger's cat by allowing her to leave alive, giving her the opportunity to shoot off their arms and flee with the Doctor. Frogs rain down from the sky, a rational explanation for which the Faculty Police promise to issue in due course, and Benny finds that Dr Geller has left her multiple voice messages; when she calls her back, she learns that her team have been walled up in a cave.
Benny returns to Renk's bar and, leaving the Doctor behind as she feels that he is getting in the way, heads to South Arvemia with Renk in his ship. The Doctor works on an apology with Trevor and transmats himself onto the ship by altering the bar's sobriety booth and changes the landing coordinates so that the Faculty Police will not be able to predict where they are going. The ship crashes.
to be completed
Cast
- Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
- The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Inquisitor Xavier - Miles Jupp
- Renk Van Magnastein - Alex Jordan
- Professor Geller - Nicola Bryant
- Robots - Matthew Woodcock
References
- Bernice orders a cocktail with an umbrella with a question mark handle.
- The faculty robot plays "Greensleeves".
- The registration number of Renk Van Magnastein's hoverbike is RVM3.
- The people of Arviem 2 worship science and have outlawed all religion.
- Miracles are a Category A science crime.
- Benny and the Doctor go to South Arvemia.
- Trevor's beer turns red. His wife left him for a lab technician.
- Bernice refers to Renk's ship as a "pimp mobile."
- Renk wears a kimono.
- Arviem 2 joined the Galactic Federation three months earlier.
- The Doctor claims that sentient clothing is very common on some planets.
Notes
to be added
Continuity
- Benny tells the Doctor that she now has a family. (PROSE: The Glass Prison, etc.)
- Bernice inquires after Ace, whom she last saw in Cheldon Bonniface in 2010 when she attended Benny's wedding and left with a clone of Jason Kane. (PROSE: Happy Endings)
- Bernice refers to Schrödinger's cat. (AUDIO: Zagreus, PROSE: Time Zero)
- The Doctor tells Benny that Ace is missing. (AUDIO: Good Night, Sweet Ladies) Benny would eventually find her on Skaro. (AUDIO: Random Ghosts)
External links
- Official The Revolution page at bigfinish.com
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