The Angel of Scutari (audio story)

The Angel of Scutari
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Ace, Hex
Main enemy:	Bartholomew Kitchen
Main setting:	Scutari and Sevastopol, Uskudar, the Crimean Peninsula, the Russian Empire; 17 October-19 November; 25 September-2 October 1854
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Paul Sutton
Director:	Ken Bentley
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Toby Hrycek-Robinson
Sound:	Toby Hrycek-Robinson
Cover by:	Alex Mallinson
Release details
Number of parts:	4
Release number:	122
Release date:	June 2009
Format:	2 CDs Download
Production code:	7W/L
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-410-8 (physical) ISBN 978-1-78575-669-6 (digital)
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The Angel of Scutari was the one hundred and twenty-second story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Paul Sutton and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace and Philip Olivier as Hex.

Publisher's summary

October 1854: As the British Army charges into catastrophe in the Crimea, the Minister for War sends Miss Florence Nightingale to take charge of the field hospital at Scutari.

But there's already an angel of mercy working with the wounded at Scutari. A first-rate fellow who's turned up out of the blue. Goes by the name of Schofield; Thomas Hector Schofield...

With the Doctor and Ace lost in the siege of Sevastopol, Hex has rediscovered his calling. But there's cannon to the left of him, cannon to the right of him — and a deranged spycatcher-in-chief on his case.

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Ace - Sophie Aldred
• Hex - Philip Olivier
• Sir Sidney Herbert / Tsar Nicholas I - Hugh Bonneville
• Florence Nightingale - Jeany Spark
• William Russell / Russian dungeon guard - John Paul Connolly
• Brigadier-General Bartholomew 'Barly' Kitchen - Alex Lowe
• Lev Tolstoy / Preston - John Albasiny
• Sir Hamilton Seymour - Sean Brosnan

Crew

• Cover Art - Alex Mallinson
• Director - Ken Bentley
• Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
• Music and Sound Design - Toby Hrycek-Robinson
• Producer - David Richardson
• Script Editor - Alan Barnes
• Writer - Paul Sutton

Worldbuilding

Individuals

• Hex is still reeling from the events that he witnessed on Bliss with the Daleks.
• Hex is shot with a musket.
• Ace and Lev ride horses when Ace escapes en route to prison.

Locations

• After Hex is shot, the Doctor sets the TARDIS for St Gart's Bankside Hospital.

Species

• Ace has previously encountered the Killorans.

TARDIS

• Cannon fire activates the TARDIS' Hostile Action Displacement System.
• The Doctor uses his TARDIS key and some of Ace's blood to build a device to home in on her.

Technology

• The Doctor has a portable nuclear generator in the TARDIS, which is extremely difficult for one person to move.

Gallery

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  Cover on the official The Angel of Scutari page and used in general publicity.

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  Cover from the 'Day 8/12 Days of Big Finish Special Offer' article.

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  Illustration from DWM 409 by Rob Davis.

Notes

• This audio release also included the third episode of The Three Companions "The Gathernaut".
• This story is a "pure historical" featuring no science fiction elements apart from the presence of the Doctor, Ace, Hex and the TARDIS.
• This was the last time that the TARDIS was its traditional blue colour in a Seventh Doctor audio drama released in the main range until the final scene of the audio story Black and White in August 2012.
• An illustrated preview of this story by Rob Davis was published in DWM 409.
• Another version of this story's cover was used in Big Finish's article 'Day 8/12 Days of Big Finish Special Offer'. It is more saturated than the one generally used.
• This audio drama was recorded on 16 and 17 January 2009 at the Moat Studios.
• This story takes place after Survival.

Continuity

• The cubby hole above the "P" where the spare key to the TARDIS is located was first shown to exist in TV: Doctor Who.
• The Doctor mentions that he witnessed the Charge of the Light Brigade in October 1854. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks; PROSE: The King of Terror)
• Ace previously rode a horse on Cheetah World. (TV: Survival)
• At a later point during his seventh incarnation, the Doctor returned to 1854 when he travelled to the home of Professor Michael Faraday in London in order to seal one end of an unstable time space corridor which had been accidentally created by his fifth incarnation on the Vault of Stellar Curios centuries in the future. (AUDIO: The Four Doctors)

External links

• Official The Angel of Scutari page at bigfinish.com
• The Angel of Scutari at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for The Angel of Scutari at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide