More Than This (audio story)

More Than This
Main character(s):	Gwen
Featuring:	Andy
Main setting:	Cardiff, 2010s
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Guy Adams
Director:	Scott Handcock
Producer:	James Goss
Music:	Blair Mowat
Sound:	Neil Gardner
Cover by:	Lee Binding
Release details
Story number:	1.6
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	6
Release date:	10 February 2016
Format:	1 CD Download
Production code:	BFPTWCD06
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-926-1
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More Than This was the sixth story in the Torchwood - Monthly Range by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Guy Adams and featured Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper.

Publisher's summary

Gwen Cooper has triumphed against impossible odds before, but now she's finally met her match: Roger Pugh, Planning Officer for Cardiff City Council.

Mr Pugh doesn't believe the world needs Torchwood. Gwen sets out to prove him wrong. For Mr Pugh, it's a day that'll change his life. If he can survive it.

Plot

Confronted with the need to fill out various forms and a wait of more than four months, Gwen takes Roger Pugh of the Cardiff Council Planning Department with her to show him the importance of Torchwood and convince him to capitulate to the agencies supporting the reconstruction of the Hub. She slams a window down on the head of a Baratavish in heat and gets Roger to help use a temporal anchor to send a displaced horse-drawn carriage back to its own time and stop an alien spore from releasing its pheromones. Further missions involve tranquillising an alien beneath Cardiff and capturing emotional vampire goo in the form of a painting.

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Cast

• Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
• Roger Pugh - Richard Nichols
• Andy Davidson - Tom Price
• Coachman - Guy Adams
• Mr Pugh's Secretary - Russell T Davies

References

• Roger takes daffodils to Jessica's grave.
• The graveyard is littered with cider cans.
• Miller works in housing and assumes Roger will do whatever he says.
• Rhys asks Gwen to get green peppers instead of red.
• Gwen takes Roger to Loudoun Square.
• Roger once had an argument with a man who scraped his car in a Henrik's car park.
• Gwen and Roger drink cappuccinos.
• Gwen and Roger eat fish and chips.
• Tiger Bay was known for Shirley Bassey.

Notes

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• This is the only story of the first series of Big Finish's Torchwood not to mention the Committee.
• An unnamed "Torchwood legend" had a cameo in this story. Russell T Davies was later added the cast list on the Big Finish website.

Continuity

• Gwen recalls the destruction of Torchwood Three, noting that it has been all but forgotten in Cardiff within four years. (TV: Children of Earth)
• Gwen notes that the Torchwood Institute was founded by Queen Victoria in 1879. (TV: Tooth and Claw)
• Gwen recalls the apparent closure of the Cardiff Space-Time Rift, which occurred in 2009. (AUDIO: The House of the Dead)
• The Eleventh Doctor was shown to be able to refuel his TARDIS using the rift in 2013, evidently a result of persisting temporal disturbances. (COMIC: The Doctor and the Nurse)
• Gwen refers to what passes through the rift to Cardiff as "flotsam and jetsam". (TV: Everything Changes)
• Roger once had an altercation at a Henrik's car park. (TV: Rose et al.)
• Roger's wife, Jessica Pugh, died ten years ago, on the night a meteorite containing an alien entity landed in Cardiff, as a result of a car driver who was distracted by the sight. Gwen notes that it was her first day on the job working for Torchwood. (TV: Day One)

External links

• Official More Than This page at bigfinish.com