The Ghosts of Gralstead (audio story)

The Ghosts of Gralstead
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Companion(s):	Leela
Main enemy:	Mordrega
Main setting:	Gralstead House and London, October 1860 and April 1861; The Congo, April 1861
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writers:	Philip Hinchcliffe, adapted by Marc Platt
Writer:
Director:	Ken Bentley
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Damien May
Release details
Number of parts:	6
Release number:	1
Part of:	Philip Hinchcliffe Presents
Release date:	5 September 2014
Format:	3 CDs Download 1st of 2 stories
Production code:	BFPDWHINCH001
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-363-4 (physical) ISBN 978-1-78703-249-1 (digital)
Philip Hinchcliffe Presents
Next →	The Devil's Armada

The Ghosts of Gralstead was the first story of the Philip Hinchcliffe Presents audio anthology.

Publisher's summary

The Doctor and Leela return to Victorian London, in the year 1860.

At St Clarence's Hospital, respected surgeon Sir Edward Scrivener requires the bodies of the dead... At Doctor McDivett's Exhibition of Living Wonders and Curiosities, miracles are afoot... And in Gralstead House, the ghost will walk again. Mordrega has come to Earth...

Plot

Part one

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Part two

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Part three

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Part four

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Part five

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Part six

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Cast

• The Doctor - Tom Baker
• Leela - Louise Jameson
• Mordrega - Carolyn Seymour
• Sir Edward Scrivener - Gethin Anthony
• Professor Cedric Scrivener - Martin Hutson
• Clementine Scrivener - Emerald O'Hanrahan
• Dr Gideon McDivett / Hill - Alan Cox
• Abasi - Ivanno Jeremiah
• Jonas Bulmer - Andy Secombe
• Ned Davey - Seán Carlsen
• Mrs Targate - Mandi Symonds
• Obingo - Andrew French

Crew

• Cover Art - Damien May
• Director - Ken Bentley
• Executive Producers - Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
• Music and Sound Design - Howard Carter
• Producer - David Richardson
• Script Editor - John Dorney
• Writer - Philip Hinchcliffe, adapted by Marc Platt

Worldbuilding

• Leela wants to pay a visit to Professor George Litefoot and Henry Gordon Jago but the Doctor tells her that they are about 40 years too early.
• The Doctor refers to child labour as one of the worst aspects of the Victorian era.
• The Doctor refers to the Hutu and Tutsi tribes of Rwanda.
• Abasi is a native of the Congo. Professor Scrivener brought him back to the United Kingdom in 1851 to work as his servant.
• Professor Scrivener's butler Hill served aboard the HMS Temeraire during the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.
• Clementine Scrivener has an aunt in Eastbourne.
• Sir Edward Scrivener is the younger brother of Professor Scrivener.
• Gralstead House was built by Professor Scrivener's great-great-grandfather Sir Joseph Scrivener in 1733.
• Professor Scrivener's late parents were named William and Charlotte.
• Hill's son served in the Crimean War.
• Professor Scrivener describes Mordrega as "an elephant woman."
• Professor Scrivener's wife Jane Scrivener died of malaria in the Congo in 1845.
• Abasi was born in 1842.
• Annie was born in 1851.

Notes

• This story was recorded at Audio Sorcery Studios.

Continuity

• The Doctor and Leela discuss their previous visit to London in 1889. Leela refers to the Cockney "tribe." (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
• Leela has a limited ability to read English, having been taught by the Doctor. (PROSE: People of the Trees; AUDIO: The Time Vampire, White Ghosts)
• Leela once again refers to policemen as "blue guards." (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang; AUDIO: The Foe from the Future, The Renaissance Man)
• The Doctor reminds Leela that milk goes in second when making tea. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
• The Doctor mentions that it has been a long time since he lost a companion. During his first incarnation, Katarina, Sara Kingdom and Oliver Harper were all killed while travelling with him and Steven Taylor. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan; AUDIO: The First Wave)
• Sir Edward refers to Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution. (AUDIO: Bloodtide)
• Leela compares the Congo to her home planet. (TV: The Face of Evil)
• Leela gives Abasi several janis thorns. (TV: The Face of Evil)
• The Doctor recalls his encounter with Alexander the Great in Babylon in May and June 323 BC during his first incarnation. (AUDIO: Farewell, Great Macedon)
• Leela tells Clemmie that the Doctor once explained dimensional transcendentalism to her. (TV: The Robots of Death)
• Immediately after leaving London in 1861, the Doctor and Leela arrived in Sissenden Village in 1588. (AUDIO: The Devil's Armada)
• The Doctor and Leela once again partake of muffins. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)

Covers

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  Disk 1 Cover.

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  Disk 2 Cover.

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  Disk 3 Cover.

External links

• Official The Ghosts of Gralstead page at bigfinish.com