A Thousand Tiny Wings (audio story)
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A Thousand Tiny Wings was a Big Finish Doctor Who audio story featuring the Seventh Doctor. It was released in January 2010.
Publisher's summary
1950s Kenya. The Mau Mau uprising. A disparate group of women lie low in a remote house in the jungle, waiting for a resolution or for rescue. Among these British imperialists is Elizabeth Klein, a refugee from a timeline that no longer exists… thanks to the Doctor.
Reunited, the Doctor and Klein are forced to set aside their differences by terrifying circumstances. People are dying in this remote place. One by one. And there's something out there, in the jungle, accompanied only by the flutter of a thousand tiny wings…
Cast
- Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Elizabeth Klein - Tracey Childs
- Mrs Sylvia O'Donnell - Ann Bell
- Mrs Denise Waterford - Abigail McKern
- Miss Lucy Watts - Joannah Tincey
- Joshua Sembeke - Chukwudi Iwuji
- Abraham - Alex Mallinson
References
- More than two weeks after the beginning of the Mau Uprising, there is still very little coverage of the conflict on the BBC World Service. Instead, they are playing the music of the American composer Scott Joplin.
- Mrs Sylvia O'Donnell, who met her husband Heinrich in Munich in 1933, expresses the view that Great Britain had no business entering the Second World War. She blames the Mau Mau Uprising on the Prime Minister Winston Churchill, whom she regards as "a senile old man."
- The Doctor is wearing his linen suit and is wistful about travelling alone.
- Klein is fervent that the Doctor destroyed her world and that her timeline is the proper one.
- The Doctor refers to the TARDIS' universal translation abilities. However, it cannot translate Esperanto.
Notes
- Although the feather on the cover is yellow, the feathers in the story itself are repeatedly described as being blue.
- This audio drama was recorded on 25 and 26 June 2009.
Continuity
- Lucy refers to the Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, which documented the Russians' defence against Napoléon Bonaparte's forces in 1812. Both the First Doctor and Iris Wildthyme met Napoléon in Russia at the time. (CC: Mother Russia, BFIW: The Panda Invasion, BFIW: The Panda Invasion)
- Klein mentions the events of BFA: Colditz.
- Klein’s erasure from the timeline in BFA: The Architects of History altered the events of this story somewhat. The "new" Klein briefly mentioned that the Doctor had been in Kenya in 1953; no doubt the outcome of his visit stayed the same despite Klein’s absence.
Timeline
- A Thousand Tiny Wings occurs after BFA: Kingdom of Silver
- A Thousand Tiny Wings occurs immediately before BFA: Klein's Story
External links
- A Thousand Tiny Wings at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- Official A Thousand Tiny Wings page at bigfinish.com
