Call for the Dead (audio story)

	Elliot, Cassie, Martine
	War Master, Teremon, Ood
	Callous
	Big Finish Productions
	James Goss
	Scott Handcock
	Robert Harvey
	Robert Harvey
	1
	The Master of Callous
	5 December 2018
	1 X 1 hour
	BFPDWWMAR02
	ISBN 978-1-78703-662-8
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Call for the Dead was the first story in the audio anthology The Master of Callous, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by James Goss and featured Derek Jacobi as the War Master.

Plot

To Be Added

Cast

• The Master - Derek Jacobi
• The Ood - Silas Carson
• Cassandra King - Maeve Bluebell Wells
• Martine King - Samantha Béart
• Teremon - Pippa Haywood
• Herschel - David Menkin
• Jaques - Barnaby Edwards
• Elliot King - Simon Ludders
• Calia - Joe Shire
• Porrit - Kai Owen

Worldbuilding

• Swenyo is a mineral with innate telepathic properties, used industrially in the construction of spacecraft thinkterfaces.
• The Callous colony is located in a rainforest climate.
• The Callous colonists grow rubber and yarum vines, and drink yarum tea.^{[see Notes]}
• Cassie names the Ood Gertrood, Stroodel, Drood, Jood, and Ermentrood.

Continuity

• The swenyo was mined using the labour of Ood. (TV: The Impossible Planet et al.)
• The planet's mineral rights were once held by IMC. (TV: Colony in Space)
• Cassie gives the Ood telepathic dampers. (TV: The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit)
• Martine mentions changing the Oods' voice settings. (TV: Planet of the Ood)

Notes

• "Yarum tea" appears to be a reference to a beverage of the same name from the Star Wars franchise.

External links

• Official Call for the Dead page at bigfinish.com