An Ideal World (audio story)

Light years from Earth, a vast human spaceship hangs in orbit over a cloudy alien planet. The crew have been travelling in cryosleep for many years, looking for a habitable world to settle, and have at last located one with potential.

However, they're not the only people to have arrived in this place. The TARDIS has landed on the planet's surface. The Doctor, Steven and Vicki explore and quickly find themselves separated.

But it isn't merely the hostile environment and rogue terraforming drones they'll have to deal with. Something else is living on this world. Something deadly and waiting to consume.

It's an ideal world. But ideal for whom?

Plot[[edit]]

The Weather Makers (1)[[edit]]

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The Life Below (2)[[edit]]

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A World in Revolt (3)[[edit]]

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A Fight for the Future (4)[[edit]]

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Cast[[edit]]

Vicki/Narrator - Maureen O'Brien
Steven/The Doctor/Narrator - Peter Purves
Kay/Christophe - Angela McHale
Heathcote - Alex Jordan
Factotum/Fitzgerald/Samsara - Tom Stourton
Traherne - Carolyn Pickles
Grant/Danuka - Oliver Mason
Elias - Lisa Bowerman

Crew[[edit]]

Cover Art - Tom Webster
Director - Lisa Bowerman
Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
Music and Sound Design - Toby Hrycek-Robinson
Producer - David Richardson
Script Editor - John Dorney
Writer - Ian Potter

Worldbuilding[[edit]]

Vicki and Steven have similar nanomachines in their blood to fight pathogens, with Vicki describing them as 'space medicine' and Steven as technocytes, although it is left unclear whether Vicki or Steven's nanocites are more advanced than the other.
KJ अपवग (Hindi characters pronounced apa vaga) is a Diaspora Class colony ship which left Earth 17 years before the events of the story with a crew of 2000.
The SS Ferdinand Magellan is a Mayflower Class colony ship and left Earth 12 years ago

Notes[[edit]]

This story was recorded on 22 and 23 January 2018 at the Moat Studios.

Continuity[[edit]]

Steven identifies himself as a pilot with the identifier Flight Red 50. (AUDIO: Mother Russia)
The Doctor mentions visiting the Himalayas, although he appears to forget that neither Vicki nor Steven were there when he travelled through the mountains (TV: Marco Polo)
The Doctor's blood is not any recognisable blood type. (TV: Spearhead from Space, PROSE: A Big Hand for the Doctor)
Neither Steven nor Vicki have a TARDIS key. (AUDIO: The Secret History)

Cover gallery[[edit]]

Textless cover
Alternate cover

External links[[edit]]

Official An Ideal World page at bigfinish.com