Jonah (audio story)

Jonah
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Bliss
Featuring:	The Twelve, Ollistra
Main enemy:	Daleks
Main setting:	Uzmal
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Timothy X Atack
Director:	Ken Bentley
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Benji Clifford, Jamie Robertson
Sound:	Benji Clifford
Release details
Release number:	4
Part of:	The Eighth Doctor: The Time War 2
Release date:	10 July 2018
Format:	1 X 1 hour
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78703-383-2
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Jonah was the fourth and final story in the audio anthology The Eighth Doctor: The Time War 2, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Timothy X Atack and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor,Rakhee Thakrar as Bliss, Jacqueline Pearce as Cardinal Ollistra and Nikki Amuka-Bird as Major Tamasan.

Publisher's summary

In the depths of an ocean world ravaged by the Time War, the weary survivors are pressed into service by Cardinal Ollistra.

Something is hidden beneath the sea: the Twelve knows the truth, if only she could drag it from her jumbled mind. And when the Doctor becomes the captain of a submarine boat, all omens spell disaster...

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Bliss - Rakhee Thakrar
• The Twelve - Julia McKenzie
• Major Tamasan - Nikki Amuka-Bird
• Ensign Murti - Anya Chalotra
• Chief Panath - Tania Rodrigues
• Executive Officer Omor - Surinder Duhra
• Ollistra - Jacqueline Pearce
• The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs

References

• The Doctor becomes the captain of the Bloodhound, known to the crew as Captain Jonah.
• Ollistra, meanwhile, is given command of the Peacemaker, with Major Tamasan as her executive officer.
• The Ourashima can see multiple futures, accurately predicting be the outcome of every choice. They are widely believed to be mythical, but the Daleks seek to gain their power.
• Jonah is a figure in Earth mythology who met an unlucky end at sea.
• The Twelve has visited Uzmal before, but in a previous incarnation.
• Tamasan gives the Doctor a first stage detonator for charges put charges put in the Twelve's hearts. Tamasan had a secondary one, which also catalised the Renegade Time Lord's artron energy.

Notes

• This story features Jacqueline Pearce's final performance as Ollistra before her death in September 2018.

Continuity

• Bliss refers to how the Time Lords weaponised Derilobia and its eventual erasure from the timelines. (AUDIO: The Lords of Terror)

External links

• Official Jonah page at bigfinish.com