The Destroyer of Delights (audio story)

The Destroyer of Delights
Doctor:	Fifth Doctor
Companion(s):	Amy
Featuring:	White Guardian
Main enemy:	Black Guardian
Main setting:	Dunqulah, Sudan, the 9th century
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Jonathan Clements
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Simon Robinson
Sound:	Simon Robinson
Cover by:	Alex Mallinson
Release details
Number of parts:	4
Release number:	118
Release date:	14 February 2009
Format:	2 CDs Download
Production code:	6R/B
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-364-4 (physical) ISBN 978-1-78575-665-8 (digital)
Main Range
← Previous	The Judgement of Isskar
Next →	The Chaos Pool
Production order
← Previous	The Boy That Time Forgot
Next →	The Chaos Pool

The Destroyer of Delights was the one hundred and eighteenth story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Jonathan Clements and featured Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor and Ciara Janson as Amy.

It was the second audio story of The Key 2 Time arc in the main range. It was the first story to feature the White Guardian since the television story Enlightenment.

Publisher's summary

“You will be always looking in the wrong place. I have searched through all of Time and I cannot find it.”

The search for the Key to Time has stalled: the next segment does not appear to exist anywhere in the universe. Forced into a temporary alliance with one of his greatest enemies, the Fifth Doctor suggests a course of action that is a validation of chaos itself.

Thrown at random across space and time, the Doctor and Amy arrive in 9th Century Sudan, where the greedy Lord Cassim is hoarding gold from the Legate of the Caliph. But why does Cassim look so familiar? What is the mysterious Djinni that lives out in the desert? And why does it need so much treasure?

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Davison
• Amy - Ciara Janson
• The Black Guardian - David Troughton
• The Legate of the Caliph - Jason Watkins
• Nisrin - Jess Robinson
• Prince Omar - Bryan Pilkington
• Hason - Paul Chahidi
• The Djinni - William Barton
• The Vizier - David Peart

Crew

• Cover Art - Alex Mallinson
• Director - Lisa Bowerman
• Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
• Music and Sound Design - Simon Robinson
• Producer - David Richardson
• Script Editor - Alan Barnes
• Writer - Jonathan Clements

Worldbuilding

• Hason has tradegoods from all over the world
  • He has swords from Al-Andalus
    • Al-Andalus is located "where the land meets the western ocean."
  • Rare jades from Cathay
  • Slaves from Europe and Africa
• Legate is a synonym of messenger
• Blue and black are the same word in Old Norse

Gallery

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  Original cover art

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  Preview by Brian Williamson appeared on DWM 405

Notes

• This story marks the first appearance of the White Guardian in an audio drama.
• This audio drama was recorded on 21 and 22 April 2008 at the Moat Studios.
• This story is set between Planet of Fire and The Caves of Androzani.
• This story was originally released on CD and download on 14 February 2009.
• This story was previewed in DWM 405 by an illustration from Brian Williamson.

Continuity

• The Doctor refers to the events of TV: Mawdryn Undead, where the Black Guardian made a deal with Turlough to kill him.
• The Black Guardian's associate, Djinni, uses a targeting lure, a jawaki, as the Black Guardian calls it, to try to destroy the White Guardian, Prince Omar and Amy. However, the Doctor realises that just as the Guardians' powers are diminishing, so are his ideas. This is exactly the same tactic that Captain Wrack used to destroy competing ships in the race for Enlightenment. (TV: Enlightenment) Both items used to accomplish this task are pieces of jewellery; here it is Amy's necklace, while in TV: Enlightenment, it is Tegan's tiara.

External links

• Official The Destroyer of Delights page at bigfinish.com
• The Destroyer of Delights at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for The Destroyer of Delights at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide