Casualties of War (audio story)

Casualties of War
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Ace, Hex
Main enemy:	The Forge
Main setting:	London, 8 May 1945
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Mark Michalowski
Director:	Ken Bentley
Music:	Matthew Cochrane
Post production:	Matthew Cochrane
Release details
Release number:	115c
Part of:	Forty-Five
Release date:	November 2008
Format:	1 X 25 minutes
Production code:	7W/H
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-324-8
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Casualties of War was a 2008 Big Finish Productions full-cast audio short story featuring the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex.

Publisher's summary

Opportunity knocks in postwar London. But when a tea leaf steals from the wrong woman it becomes a race against time to discover the truth. Only some truths are best left untold.

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Ace - Sophie Aldred
• Hex - Philip Olivier
• Joey Carlisle - Paul Reynolds
• May - Linda Marlowe
• Audrey Dudman / Miss Merchant - Beth Chalmers
• PC Miller - Andrew Dickens

References

• Hex has never heard of VE Day.
• Miss Merchant is an agent of the Forge.

Notes

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Continuity

• The Doctor told Ace and Hex about the Forge following the Charnage Hospital incident in 1917. (AUDIO: No Man's Land)
• Ace previously met her mother Audrey Dudman as a baby in Maiden's Point in 1943. On this occasion, she meets her as a toddler. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)
• During these events, while Nobody No-One was pursuing the Doctor, (AUDIO: The Word Lord) he regenerated under mysterious circumstances. Nobody hid in the Forge research facility, where his ship disguised itself as their catchphrase, "For King and Country". (AUDIO: A Death in the Family)
• The Truthsayers are later used by the Doctor's future companions Lysandra Aristedes (AUDIO: Project: Nirvana) and Sally Morgan. (AUDIO: Gods and Monsters)