The Boundless Sea (audio story)
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The Boundless Sea was the first full cast audio story in the first series of The Diary of River Song, released in 2015 by Big Finish Productions.
Publisher's summary
River Song has had more than enough excitement for a while. Deciding the universe – and her husband – can look after themselves, she has immersed herself in early 20th century academia, absorbed in writing archaeological theses.
But when a mysterious tomb is found in a dry, distant land, excitement comes looking for River.
Can Professor Song stop any more members of the expedition from dying? What deadly secrets lie buried within the crypt? And will British Consul Bertie Potts prove to be a help, or a hindrance?
Plot
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Cast
- River Song - Alex Kingston
- Bertie Potts - Alexander Vlahos
- Daphne Garsington - Charlotte Christie
- Colonel Lifford - Alisdair Simpson
- Archie Ferrers - Oliver Dimsdale
- Professor Straiton - John Banks
- Prim - Gbemisola Ikumelo
References
- River relates the story of a girl called Alice who fell down a black hole.
- River tells Bertie that he should stay out of Europe for the forseeable future, alluding to the Second World War.
- River tells Bertie that the stories of H. G. Wells about the stars are real. He thinks she means the one about the centre of the Earth.
- River speaks French.
- River compares a saline drone to Tinker Bell from Peter Pan.
- The boat River and Bertie are travelling on docks at Constantinople.
Notes
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Continuity
- River uses her sonic trowel. (TV: The Husbands of River Song)
- River owns a vortex manipulator. (TV: The Pandorica Opens et al.)
- Bertie says that the tomb of Tutankhamen (PROSE: The King of Golden Death) was discovered the previous summer, in 1923. (COMIC: The Gods Walk Among Us)
- River mistakenly believes Bertie is trying to court her and starts to rebuff him by saying she's a married woman. (TV: The Wedding of River Song, The Angels Take Manhattan, The Husbands of River Song)
- Bertie complains that River refused to stop the car when his hat blew off and River replies, "Hats are overrated." She has previously shown contempt towards the Eleventh Doctor's fez (TV: The Big Bang) and Stetson. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut)
- Like other Time Lords, River has an acute sense of smell. She notes by smell alone that there are no living or dead bodies in the tomb. (PROSE: Wishing Well, Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters)
- River scoffs that she is known as a psychopath. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler, The Angels Take Manhattan)
- River says life has been cruel to her and compares her early life to being trapped in a tomb. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War, The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon, Let's Kill Hitler, Closing Time, COMIC: Imaginary Enemies)
- Bertie's invitation gave River coordinates to a port in the Magellan Cloud. (AUDIO: The Last Voyage)
External links
- Official The Boundless Sea - The Diary of River Song Series 1 page at bigfinish.com
