Home Truths (audio story)
Home Truths was a 2008 audio play released by Big Finish Productions. It featured Jean Marsh relating a story featuring Sara Kingdom, Steven Taylor and the Doctor, but did so from a more indirect angle than was typical for the Companion Chronicle range. Unusually, the "present day" of the narrative was at least 1000 years after Sara's death.
It began a trilogy later continued in the prequel, The Drowned World, and the sequel, The Guardian of the Solar System.
Publisher's summary
There’s a house across the waters at Ely where an old woman tells a strange story.
About a kind of night constable called Sara Kingdom. And her friends, the Doctor and Steven. About a journey they made to a young couple’s home, and the nightmarish things that were found there. About the follies of youth and selfishness. And the terrible things even the most well-meaning of us can inflict on each other.
Hear the old woman's story. Then decide her fate.
Cast
- Sara Kingdom - Jean Marsh
- Robert - Niall MacGregor
References
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Notes
- Dialogue within the story calls into question how trustworthy the narrator actually is. Thus, it is difficult to know just how accurately the Doctor, Sara and Steven are portrayed.
- This story has some commonality with DWM: "Funhouse", in that the key antagonist is an intelligent house.
- This is an unusual Companion Chronicle in that the returning actor from Doctor Who portrays the nominal villain of the piece.
Continuity
- Sara mentions the events of ST: "The Little Drummer Boy" and CC: The Guardian of the Solar System.
Timeline
- Home Truths likely occurs between DW: "The Feast of Steven" and "Volcano"
- Home Truths occurs after CC: The Drowned World.
- Home Truths occurs before CC: The Guardian of the Solar System.
