Hexagora (audio story)

Hexagora (audio story)

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Hexagora
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fifth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Tegan Jovanka Nyssa
Main setting:	Brisbane, Australia Luparis, Proxima Centauri
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writers:	Paul Finch, from a story by Peter Ling and Hazel Adair
Director:	Ken Bentley
Release details
Release number:	3.02
Release date:	November 2011
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-574-7

Publisher's summary

When a newspaper reporter goes missing, the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa uncover a case of alien abduction. The trail leads them to the planet Luparis, and a city that appears to be a replica of Tudor London.

What are the monsters that lurk in the shadows? And what is the terrible secret at the heart of Luparis? To save a world, the Doctor must try and defeat the evil plans of Queen Zafira.

And one of her plans is to marry him…

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Fifth Doctor - Peter Davison
• Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding
• Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
• Queen Zafira - Jacqueline Pearce
• Mike Bretherton - Toby Hadoke
• Lord Jezzavar - Richard Mark
• Lord Zellenger - Dan Starkey
• Astorius - Sean Brosnan

References

• Tegan and Mike Bretherton went to high school together.
• Lord Zellenger is Queen Zafira's former husband and Prince Consort. She eventually tired of him and married Lord Jezzavar.
• Luparis is a replica of Tudor London, featuring reproductions of the River Thames (which has frozen over, leading to a frost fair), London Bridge and the Palace of Whitehall.

Notes

• Jacqueline Pearce (Queen Zafira) previously played Chessene in DW: The Two Doctors, Sherilyn Harper in BFA: The Fearmonger, Admiral Mettna in WC: Death Comes to Time and the Keeper during the second season of the Sarah Jane Smith audio series. She is best known for her role as Supreme Commander / President Servalan in Blake's 7.
• Dan Starkey (Lord Zellenger) previously played numerous Sontarans in the revived series, namely Commander Skorr and Lieutenant Skree in DW: The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky, Commander Jask in DW: The End of Time and Commander Strax in DW: A Good Man Goes to War as well as Plark in SJA: The Man Who Never Was.

Continuity

• The Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan spend several days on holiday in Brisbane, Australia following their ordeal with the Elite on Florana. (BFA: The Elite)
• The Doctor tells Lord Lezzavar of the destruction of Traken while Nyssa obliquely refers to the death of her father Tremas. (DW: Logopolis)

Timeline

• This story takes place after BFA: The Elite
• This story takes place before BFA: The Children of Seth

External links

• Official Hexagora page at bigfinish.com