A Thousand Tiny Wings (audio story)
A Thousand Tiny Wings was the one hundred and thirtieth story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Andy Lane and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and Tracey Childs as Elizabeth Klein.
Released in January 2010, it featured the return of Childs as Klein, a character whom she had previously played in Colditz in 2001. This story began a series of three audio releases featuring Elizabeth Klein travelling with the Seventh Doctor.
Publisher's summary
1950s Kenya. The Mau Mau Uprising. A disparate group of women lie low in a remote house in the jungle, waiting for a resolution or for rescue. Among these British imperialists is Elizabeth Klein, a refugee from a timeline that no longer exists... thanks to the Doctor.
Reunited, the Doctor and Klein are forced to set aside their differences by terrifying circumstances. People are dying in this remote place. One by one. And there's something out there, in the jungle, accompanied only by the flutter of a thousand tiny wings...
Plot
to be added
Cast
- The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Elizabeth Klein - Tracey Childs
- Mrs Sylvia O'Donnell - Ann Bell
- Mrs Denise Waterford - Abigail McKern
- Miss Lucy Watts - Joannah Tincey
- Joshua Sembeke - Chukwudi Iwuji
- Abraham - Alex Mallinson
Worldbuilding
Culture
- American composer Scott Joplin is heard.
Individuals
- Sylvia O'Donnell expresses the view that Great Britain had no business entering the Second World War.
- Klein inquires as to the whereabouts of "Miss McShane".
- The Doctor mentions having met Hans de Flores.
- Klein mentions the German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun.
- Mrs O'Donnell's husband Heinrich was a Waffen-SS officer who was stationed near Colditz Castle.
- Mrs O'Donnell mentions the architectural achievements of Albert Speer in Berlin during the 1930s.
- The Doctor once got into an argument with Frank L. Baum about flying monkeys.
TARDIS
- The Doctor refers to the TARDIS' universal translation abilities. However, it cannot translate Esperanto.
Notes
- This audio drama was recorded on 25 and 26 June 2009 at the Moat Studios.
- This audio drama was available on BBC Radio 4 Extra from 23-24 May 2012.
- Although the feather on the cover is yellow, the feathers in the story itself are repeatedly described as being blue and in the interior booklet they are presented as yellow and green.
- This story was later revealed to have taken place in 1953 in AUDIO: The Architects of History.
- This story takes place after Survival.
- This story was originally released on CD and download on 21 January 2010.[1]
Continuity
- Lucy refers to the 1812 Overture by the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, which commemorated the successful Russian defence against Napoléon Bonaparte's forces in 1812. Both the First Doctor and Iris Wildthyme met Napoléon in Russia at that time (AUDIO: Mother Russia, The Panda Invasion) while the Eighth Doctor and his companions Fitz Kreiner and Trix MacMillan visited Moscow during the French invasion. (PROSE: Emotional Chemistry)
- Klein mentions the events of AUDIO: Colditz.
- The Doctor recalls meeting the Neo-Nazi Hans de Flores in November 1988. (TV: Silver Nemesis)
- The Doctor tells Mrs O'Donnell that he has fond memories of driving vintage cars. (TV: Spearhead from Space, et. al)
- Klein's erasure from the timeline in AUDIO: The Architects of History altered the events of this story somewhat. The Klein from the proper timeline briefly mentioned that the Doctor had been in Kenya in 1953. No doubt the outcome of his visit stayed the same despite Klein's absence.
Footnotes
External links
- A Thousand Tiny Wings at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- Official A Thousand Tiny Wings page at bigfinish.com
- DisContinuity for A Thousand Tiny Wings at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide
