Distant Voices (audio story)
Distant Voices was the third story of The Twelfth Doctor Chronicles, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Lizbeth Myles, performed by Jacob Dudman and featured the Twelfth Doctor.
Publisher's summary
Cameron is haunted by strange voices. As she gets on with her job conducting tours around Rochester Castle, she hopes that they'll just go away.
Fortunately for Cameron, the Doctor has joined her tour. He hears the voices too, and he knows what they mean. Time itself is starting to fracture...
Plot
After the TARDIS crashes near Rochester Castle in 2015, the Doctor joins Cameron's tour and corrects her on several points of history before asking her about ghost stories connected to the castle. She leads him to the battlement where a white lady supposedly walks and the Doctor confirms that the ghostly voices that she has been hearing every day, which have been becoming increasingly louder, are indeed real as he can hear them too. The castle is suddenly surrounded by mist and ghostly knights appear, attacking the castle with trebuchets. The Doctor and Cameron get the tourists to safety in the souvenir shop with Alex, who goes into the mist to investigate and fades away into nothingness.
The ghostly knights become more real and the Doctor and Cameron see King John and William d'Aubigny during the 1215 siege as the castles of 1215 and 2015 attempt to occupy the same place in spacetime, which could cause a temporal explosion and collapse timelines. The Doctor and Cameron are arrested and show William d'Aubigny the psychic paper, which claims that they are messengers from Louis and leads him to release them. The battle begins and the Doctor tells Cameron to listen to the voices again, transporting them to the remains of the castle in 2815, a third time zone in the temporal struggle. Cameron somehow knows about 29th century technology and leads the Doctor to a bunker.
to be completed
Cast
- The Narrator / The Doctor - Jacob Dudman
- Cameron / Female Commander - Emily Redpath
References
- Rochester Castle is a Norman castle located by the River Medway.
- Alex is a shop assistant.
- Alex drinks tea and eats ginger snaps.
- Alex's grandmother recommended warm milk with nutmeg for a good sleep.
- William d'Aubigny led a hundred knights to take Rochester Castle. He did not like King John.
- Cameron is allergic to cats.
- Cameron was born in 1994.
- Cameron studies at Kent University.
- The Doctor and Cameron run from a sonic grenade.
Notes
to be added
Continuity
- The Doctor mentions the "fake" John of England, Kamelion. (TV: The King's Demons)
- The Doctor prefers to fight with a spoon rather than a sword. (TV: Robot of Sherwood)
External links
- Official Distant Voices page at bigfinish.com
