The Word Lord (audio story)

	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
	Ace Hex
	Nobody No-One ("The Word Lord")
	Ranulph Fiennes Base, Antarctica, 2045
	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
	Steven Hall
	Ken Bentley
	Steve Foxon
	Steve Foxon
	115d
	Forty-five
	November 2008
	1 X 25 min.
	7W/H
	ISBN 978-1-84435-324-8

The Word Lord was a 2008 Big Finish Productions full-cast audio short story featuring the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex.

Publisher's summary

In a top secret military bunker deep beneath the Antarctic ice a mysterious death threatens peace negotiations and could spell disaster for the inhabitants of Earth. Can the Doctor cross the t's and dot the i's? Or will his efforts get lost in translation?

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Ace - Sophie Aldred
• Hex - Philip Olivier
• Commander Claire Spencer - Linda Marlowe
• Nobody No-One - Paul Reynolds
• Captain James Hurst - Andrew Dickens
• Private Fenton - Paul Lincoln
• System - Beth Chalmers

References

• Star Wars and David Attenborough are still famous in the 2020s.
• McDonald's Happy Meals are still made in the 2020s.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• The Doctor previously visited Antarctica in the 1970s during his fourth incarnation (DW: The Seeds of Doom) and in December 1986 towards the end of his first incarnation (DW: The Tenth Planet).
• The Fifth Doctor and his former companion Tegan Jovanka were involved in the circumstances surrounding System's creation in Brisbane, Australia on 22 September 2006. (BFA: The Gathering)
• Claire Spencer has met the Doctor before in her past but his future. By this time, he was in his eighth incarnation.
• The Doctor, Ace and Hex would encounter Nobody No-One once again in London in 2026. In the interim, he had regenerated in a manner similar to a Time Lord. (BFA: A Death in the Family)

Timeline

• All stories on Forty-five are assumed to take place between BFA: The Dark Husband and The Magic Mousetrap, though their placement relative to each other is less clear.