Young Winston (audio story)

Young Winston
Main character(s):	Winston Churchill
Featuring:	Madame Vastra, Eleventh Doctor
Main setting:	London, 1899
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Paul Morris
Director:	Ken Bentley
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Steve Foxon
Cover by:	Tom Webster
Release details
Part of:	The Churchill Years: Volume Two
Release date:	15 February 2018
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Young Winston was the first story in The Churchill Years: Volume Two. It featured Madame Vastra.

Publisher's summary

London, 1899. After spending time in warzones abroad, Winston Churchill considers a Parliamentary career. But a memento from his visit to Cuba, four years earlier, returns to haunt him. Across the city, the Great Detective has a mysterious caller, all the way from Havana. As ruthless mercenaries wield alien powers, young Winston and Madame Vastra learn they have a mutual friend - an eccentric young man, sporting a bowtie...

Cast

• Winston Churchill - Ian McNeice
• Madame Vastra - Neve McIntosh
• Young Winston - Iain Batchelor
• Carmen/Housekeeper - Melody Grove
• Luis Ortega - Owen Aaronovitch
• Reggie/Jorge/Clerk - Leighton Pugh

References

• Carmen sought out Madame Vastra instead of a pathologist and an empressario or Sherlock Holmes whom she had also heard of.

Notes

• The title of the story is a reference to the 1972 film Young Winston.
• This is Vastra's first appearance without Jenny Flint and one of only two appearances without Strax, the other being The Lost Dimension.

Continuity

• Churchill visited Havana, Cuba in 1895. (PROSE: The Lost Diaries of Winston Spencer Churchill)
• The Eleventh Doctor is described as wearing a purple frock coat. (TV: The Bells of Saint John)

External link

• Official The Churchill Years: Volume Two page at bigfinish.com