A Brave New World (audio story)

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A Brave New World
Main character(s):	River Song, Rachel
Featuring:	Tenth Doctor
Main enemy:	Zombie electric eels, Linos
Main setting:	Armis 20
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Tracy Ann Baines
Director:	Ken Bentley
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Tom Webster
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	8.2
Part of:	The Diary of River Song: Series Eight
Release date:	27 January 2021
Format:	1 CD Download 2nd of 4 stories
Production code:	BFPDWRIVER08
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-83868-288-0 (physical) ISBN 978-1-83868-289-7 (digital)
The Diary of River Song
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A Brave New World was the second story of the audio anthology The Diary of River Song: Series Eight. It was written by Tracy Ann Baines and featured Alex Kingston as River Song, Salome Haertel as Rachel Burrows and David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor.

Publisher's summary

Rachel has made a choice and joins a new society at the start of its journey. But she has not bargained for the worst instincts of humanity.

After leaving her ward behind, can River make it back in time to save her?

Plot

to be added

Cast

• River Song - Alex Kingston
• Rachel Burrows - Salome Haertel
• Aaron / Demon - Homer Todiwala
• Linos - Laura Aikman
• Bryson / Shuttle AI / Council Leader - Sam Benjamin

Uncredited cast

• The Doctor - David Tennant

Worldbuilding

The Doctor

• An unspecified incarnation of the Doctor turns the TARDIS swimming pool into a sauna by venting heat from the rest of the TARDIS into it.
• River fights Boltarian Death Mechas with the War Doctor.
• River attends a party with, judging by the description, the Ninth Doctor.
• River jumps out of a ship filled with Art Deco Robots while the Eleventh Doctor stays behind to save them.
• River leaves the Tenth Doctor to fight a Necro-Demon in an unnamed Collection.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• River refers to the fact that the War Doctor doesn't like the name Doctor. (TV: The Night of the Doctor, et al.)
• When River tells the War Doctor she no longer wants to spend time in a war she uses the phrase "No More." (TV: The Night of the Doctor, The Day of the Doctor)
• The Eleventh sends River a message saying "Geronimo, Sweetie". (TV: The End of Time, et al. TV: Silence in the Library, et al.)
• The colony ship is named Armis 20 after the astronomer Armis. (AUDIO: Slight Glimpses of Tomorrow)

External links

• Official A Brave New World page at bigfinish.com