The Wax Princess (audio story)

The Wax Princess
Main character(s):	Jago, Litefoot
Featuring:	Ellie, Quick, Abberline, Queen Victoria, Patsy
Main enemy:	Jack the Ripper
Main setting:	London, December 1894
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Justin Richards
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Tom Webster
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	7.4
Part of:	Jago & Litefoot: Series Seven
Release date:	3 April 2014
Format:	1 CD Download 4th of 4 stories
Production code:	BFPJLCD07
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-357-3 (psychical) ISBN 978-1-78575-181-3 (digital)
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The Wax Princess was the fourth and final story in the seventh season of the audio spin off Jago & Litefoot.

Publisher's summary

The past has come back to haunt former chief inspector Abberline — Jack the Ripper has escaped from custody!

As the notorious killer strikes again in London, Jago and Litefoot are drawn into a web of intrigue.

One that will lead to the palace itself...

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Professor George Litefoot - Trevor Baxter
• Henry Gordon Jago - Christopher Benjamin
• Sergeant Quick - Conrad Asquith
• Ellie Higson - Lisa Bowerman
• Inspector Abberline - Adrian Rawlins
• Tom Carlton - Patrick Drury
• Mr Rippon - Philip Pope
• Queen Victoria - Lizzie Roper
• Patsy the Crone - Flaminia Cinque
• The Scorchies - Jenna Russell, Sarah Lark & Cameron Blakely
• Nancy Pettigrew - Sarah Lark

Worldbuilding

• Prior to being murdered by Jack the Ripper in 1888, Elizabeth "Long Liz" Stride used to drink in the Red Tavern.

Notes

• This story was recorded on 18 and 20 December 2012, 7 March and 16 April 2013.

Continuity

• Prior to his murder, Private Willis told Inspector Abberline that Jago and Litefoot were innocent of attempting to assassinate Queen Victoria. (AUDIO: Murder at Moorsey Manor)
• Abberline mentions that Mary Kelly was Jack the Ripper's fifth and final canonical victim but that there were others. (COMIC: Ripper's Curse)
• Jack the Ripper was then believed to have been caught by the Silurian Madame Vastra, who proceeded to devour him. She found him "stringy, but tasty all the same". (TV: A Good Man Goes to War)
• Jago refers to Mr Sin. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
• Jago mentions that he has had problems with magicians before. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
• The Scorchies would later try to destroy Earth in the 1970s but their plot was defeated by the Third Doctor and Jo Grant. (AUDIO: The Scorchies)

External links

• Official The Wax Princess - Series Seven Box Set page at bigfinish.com