A Small Semblance of Home (audio story)

A Small Semblance of Home
Doctor:	First Doctor
Companion(s):	Susan, Ian, Barbara
Main enemy:	Sinensis
Main setting:	Unnamed planet
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Paul Phipps
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Producer:	Ian Atkins
Music:	David Roocroft
Sound:	David Roocroft
Read by:	Carole Ann Ford
Cover by:	Anthony Lamb
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	8.9
Release date:	27 September 2018
Format:	MP3 download
Production code:	BFMSTDL44
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78703-001-5
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A Small Semblance of Home was the ninth story of the eighth season of Big Finish Productions' Short Trips series.

Publisher's summary

It's become his obsession. Through the hottest of deserts and the coldest of snows, the TARDIS crew have searched for the one remaining piece of the Doctor's most important experiment. But now Barbara's exhausted. Why hasn't the Doctor learned his lesson? What's so important that his scientific curiosity outweighs the safety of the crew once again? And will his latest arrogant trespass be the last he ever makes?

Plot

to be added

Characters

• First Doctor
• Susan Foreman
• Ian Chesterton
• Barbara Wright
• Nylok

References

• Barbara has been trying to keep track of time while travelling in the TARDIS. She believes it is Sunday.
• Barbara often met her friends in Shoreditch Park for picnics.
• Barbara would have tea with her mother every Sunday.
• On the planet, the Doctor believes they are a "couple thousand years" in the future from Ian's time, the ancestors of the tribe arrived "millennia ago," and that the tribe has been protecting the plant for centuries.
• Camellia sinensis is the Latin name for tea.
• After thousands of years of evolution, the tea plant is a cross between a bush and a tree.

Notes

• This story was recorded on 11 October 2016 at The Moat Studios.
• This story is available as a download only.

Continuity

• Ian and Barbara mention how the Doctor's obsessive quest for knowledge previously got them into trouble on Skaro. (TV: The Daleks)
• Barbara tries to make coffee with the food machine. (TV: The Daleks)
• The Doctor will later encounter another colony of humans devolved into a tribe. (TV: The Face of Evil)

External links

• Official A Small Semblance of Home page at bigfinish.com