Sanctuary (audio story)
Sanctuary was the first story in The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield audio anthology The Eternity Club 4, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Tim Foley and featured Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield.
Publisher's summary
A battlefleet has breached the defences of the Eternity Club, demanding the surrender of The Death. Only Bernice Summerfield knows what this is - and even she cannot believe it.
Plot
Starll presents Grizella with a bouquet of grass and accepts her offer to sit on her lap in the observatory, where she has noticed a warfleet in the nearby Maxima system. Professor Altazar summons the pair to join him, 312 and Geren in the common room to listen to a message from the warfleet warning that they are on their way to the Eternity Club for somebody.
to be completed
Cast
- Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
- Secretary Pym - Nickolas Grace
- The Oldest - Niamh Cusack
- Starll - Dan Starkey
- 312 - Simon Kane
- Grizella - Naana Agyei-Ampadu
- Professor Altazar - Shai Matheson
- The Suspension of Geren - Victoria Gee
- Nurse - Dianne Pilkington
- Butlers - David O'Mahony
Worldbuilding
- 312 uses the phrase "a miniature Shansheeth told me".
- Starll gives Grizella a bouquet of grass.
- Grizella watches the nearby Maxima system.
- The Nurse is a TARDIS assigned by the High Council of Time Lords as a sentinel to guard the Oldest and deduce her identity. She claims to no longer be able to travel in time.
Notes
- Sanctuary was recorded at the Soundhouse on 10 October 2023.
Continuity
- Altazar and Starl recall them calling upon their respective races’ militaries, as occurred in AUDIO: Rhubarb [+]Loading...["Rhubarb (audio story)"].
- The Nurse detects Benny’s synapses were recently purged, as occurred in AUDIO: The Terrible Shame of a Tree [+]Loading...["The Terrible Shame of a Tree (audio story)"].
- Benny realises the Oldest was responsible for the dark rhubarb, which infected Derek the Tree in AUDIO: Rhubarb [+]Loading...["Rhubarb (audio story)"], and sent her into the cloakroom, as occurred in AUDIO: Please Retain Your Ticket for the Cloakroom [+]Loading...["Please Retain Your Ticket for the Cloakroom (audio story)"].
External links
- Official Sanctuary page at bigfinish.com
Footnotes
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