Archipelago (audio story)

Archipelago
Doctor:	Ninth Doctor
Companion(s):	River
Main setting:	Fortuna
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Tim Foley
Director:	Helen Goldwyn
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Iain Meadows
Cover by:	Caroline Tankersley
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	4.3
Part of:	Star-Crossed
Release date:	29 May 2024
Format:	1 CD Download 3rd of 3 stories
Production code:	BFPDW9TH12
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-80240-134-9 (physical); ISBN 978-1-80240-135-6 (digital)
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Archipelago was the third story in the audio anthology Star-Crossed, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Tim Foley and featured Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor and Alex Kingston as River Song.

Publisher's summary

River Song has one last request. If the Doctor undertakes a dangerous journey with her on the planet Fortuna, she’ll never bother him again. But this is no ordinary voyage.

As the storms batter their tiny vessel, the travellers are confronted with some brutal home truths. There is a captain in search of a husband. There is a ship in need of a light. And there are lovers lost in the maelstrom who will always be islands apart...

Plot

River summons the TARDIS to the planet Fortuna, which is beset by time storms preventing the Doctor from leaving, and requests the Doctor's help in return for leaving him alone in the future.

to be completed

Cast

• The Doctor - Christopher Eccleston
• River Song - Alex Kingston
• Captain Thaddeus Grey - Trevor Cooper
• Dr Harvey Grey - John Banks

Worldbuilding

to be added

Notes

• Archipelago was recorded in March 2023.

Continuity

• The Doctor uses his old Gladstone bag, a staple of First Doctor stories in TV Comic, first seen in COMIC: Shark Bait ^[+]Loading...["Shark Bait (TVC comic story)"]. River knows that it was a gift from John and Gillian.
• During a temporal shift River remembers dying on the streets on New York. (TV: Day of the Moon ^[+]Loading...["Day of the Moon (TV story)"])
• The Doctor mentions Gruach giving him the Eye (AUDIO: The Curse of Lady Macbeth ^[+]Loading...["The Curse of Lady Macbeth (audio story)"]) and a lady in Yorkshire giving him Chipsticks. (AUDIO: Auld Lang Syne ^[+]Loading...["Auld Lang Syne (audio story)"])
• The Doctor reads the stories of River's adventures in New York (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan ^[+]Loading...["The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)"]), facing the Daleks (TV: The Big Bang ^[+]Loading...["The Big Bang (TV story)"]), the Silents (TV: The Impossible Astronaut ^[+]Loading...["The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)"]/Day of the Moon ^[+]Loading...["Day of the Moon (TV story)"]), and a dance on the Byzantium with the Angels (TV: The Time of Angels ^[+]Loading...["The Time of Angels (TV story)"] / Flesh and Stone ^[+]Loading...["Flesh and Stone (TV story)","Flesh and Stone"])

Cover gallery

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External links

• Official Archipelago page at bigfinish.com