Ascension (Torchwood Soho audio story)
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Ascension was the fourth release in the Torchwood Soho audio series. It was written by James Goss and starred Samuel Barnett as Norton Folgate, Dervla Kirwan as Lizbeth Hayhoe, Tom Price as Andy Davidson and Joe Shire as Gideon Lyme.
Publisher's summary
Is the end of the world really nigh? A number of groups believe so – and what’s odder, they’re all vanishing.
Have they really gone to heaven, or is something far worse happening? It’s Torchwood. Obviously something far worse is happening.
- 1. Burning Bright
- When carol singers on the runway bring down a plane, Torchwood investigate.
- 2. Chariot of Fire
- The race is on to stop the world ending at midnight. Norton has it all under control.
- 3. The Invisible Worm
- In Moscow, the true power of Ascension is revealed.
- 5. Dark Satanic Mills
- Come on holiday, all ye faithful! What is going on on Salisbury Plain?
- 6. Fearful Symmetry
- As the net tightens, does the human race have one last use for Torchwood?
Plot
Burning Bright (1)
A group of carol singers trespass on a runway at London Airport where a church one stood and refuse to leave despite a jet liner arriving from New York, their leader shouting that they are there to ascend to Heaven. The aeroplane is unable to pull up and explodes as it lands, something that attracts the attention of Norton. He gathers Andy, Lizbeth and Gideon early in the morning and informs them of the explosion and how the group vanished in a blaze of light. The newspaper is full of declarations of the end of the world, so the group split up to investigate.
Gideon joins Sister Patience's Peckham Apocalypse, Lizbeth Pastor Tom's Dane Street Ascension and Andy Father Dinsdale in Wales. Father Dinsdale eventually admits to Andy that he began his career as a fraud, but he has come to truly believe that the faithful will soon ascend. Meanwhile, Norton repeatedly attempts to meet with ministers to discuss the situation without success, although he tells Gideon otherwise, and believes that the supposed prophets might have received an alien signal which they have each interpreted differently given their predictions of different days for the end of the world.
Norton meets with Armitage at his club and confides in him that he believes that the government has been infiltrated, but Armitage claims that they are simply annoyed by his actions in Ashenden and at Mandeville Walk. He eventually meets Sir Reginald Peebles as he leaves his office and realises that the government know the Ascensions to be true, so he hurries to Peckham and saves Gideon from disappearing with Sister Patience and the rest of the congregation. Thanks to her lateness, Lizbeth avoids ascending with Pastor Tom's group.
Chariot of Fire (2)
to be added
The Invisible Worm (3)
to be added
We Have Built Jerusalem (4)
to be added
Dark Satanic Mills (5)
to be added
Fearful Symmetry (6)
to be added
Cast
- Norton Folgate - Samuel Barnett
- Andy Davidson - Tom Price
- Elizabeth Hayhoe - Dervla Kirwan
- Gideon Lyme - Joe Shire
- Patience - Naana Agyei-Ampadu
- Armitage - Greg Austin
- Sofia - Ali Bastian
- Dinsdale - Jamie Baughan
- Minnie - Anna Bernard
- Edward - Michael Higgs
- Sir Reginald - Adam Howden
- Aleksandr - David O'Mahony
- Cedric - David Sterne
Worldbuilding
Notes
- This audio drama was recorded on 10 and 13-14 January 2022 was recorded at the Soundhouse and remotely.
Continuity
- Lizbeth is in a relationship with a barmaid. She met Mia in AUDIO: The Unbegotten [+]Loading...["The Unbegotten (audio story)"].
Cover gallery
"Demonic" cover
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"Angelic" cover[1]
Textless "demonic" cover
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External links
- Official Ascension page at bigfinish.com
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