Time Reaver (audio story)

Calibris. The spaceport planet where anything goes. Where anyone who doesn't want to be found can be lost, and where everything has its price. Where betentacled gangster Gully holds sway at the smugglers' tavern, Vagabond's Reach.

The alien Vacintians are trying to impose some order on the chaos. Soon the Doctor and Donna discover why. An illegal weapon is loose on the streets. A weapon that destroys lives... Slowly and agonisingly.

The Time Reaver.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Uncredited[[edit] | [edit source]]

Mane/Robot Voices - John Banks^[1]
Florian - Terry Molloy^[2]
Busker/Receptionist/Robot Voices - Dan Starkey^[1]^[3]
Robot Voices/Man - Alex Lowe^[1]

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cover Art - Tom Webster
Director - Nicholas Briggs
Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
Music and Sound Designer - Howard Carter
Producer - David Richardson
Script Editor - Matt Fitton
Writer - Jenny T Colgan

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Food and drink[[edit] | [edit source]]

Donna wonders whether there's a coffee shop on Calibris. To the Doctor's surprise, the head office has been decorated to resemble one and also serves scones.

Planets[[edit] | [edit source]]

Vacintia, the home of the Vacintians, is in its final days. The sun that it orbits is now a red giant.
Calibris is a spaceport planet used as a crossover point by 60 million people every day.

Popular culture[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor implies that he has visited the nightclub Sugar Hut on at least one occasion.

The TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]

Donna notes that there is a very limited range of women's clothing in the TARDIS wardrobe.

Weapons[[edit] | [edit source]]

Time Reaver guns can turn seconds into much longer time periods.
A Time Reaver Bomb had the same effect as a Time Reaver.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

While this story is set before In the Blood, it was actually released four days after the novel.
This story was released dubbed in German, as Die Zeitdiebe.
- Axel Malzacher voiced the Doctor, Kordula Leiße voiced Donna, Yara Blümel voiced Cora, Thomas Schmuckert voiced Soren, Uve Teschner voiced Mane, Jürgen Thormann voiced Rone, Tim Weiland voiced Gully and Marlin Wick voiced Dorn. Robert Frank, Arne Fuhrmann, Mario Hassert, Nora Jokhosha and Sebastian Kaufmane provided additional voices.
This story was recorded on 21 October 2015 at the Moat Studios.
This story was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra on 27 August 2022.^[4] It was later edited into two parts which were first broadcast on 8 and 9 November 2023.^[5]^[6] The first part ends after the Doctor, Donna, and Cora run from Gully and bump into someone.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Donna borrows a "wench" style outfit from the TARDIS wardrobe. (TV: Pyramids of Mars, The Twin Dilemma; AUDIO: No Place Like Home)
The Doctor requires a new fluid link for his TARDIS. (TV: The Daleks, The Web Planet, et. al)
When referred to as "Doc", the Doctor makes his dislike for the nickname very clear. (TV: The Time Meddler, The Five Doctors, The Twin Dilemma, The Ultimate Foe, Dreamland)
The Doctor notes that he stole a Type 40 TARDIS because he was in a hurry to leave Gallifrey. (TV: An Unearthly Child, Logopolis, The Name of the Doctor; AUDIO: The Beginning)
When Donna is greeted by the maître d', he tells her that "there is something on your back." (TV: The Fires of Pompeii, Turn Left)
Mere seconds before Donna thinks she is going to die, Donna says to the Doctor that she "wouldn't have missed it for the world". This mirrors the interaction between the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler when she similarly believed that she was going to die in 2012. (TV: Dalek)
Shortly after the death of Cora's father, Donna tries to get from her the information about the remaining Time Reaver guns by invoking her own late father Geoff Noble. (TV: The Runaway Bride, The End of Time)
After spending decades trapped in his comatose state, the Doctor states that he missed reading. He then decides that their next trip would be to a library. The Doctor would one day take Donna to the Library in the 51st century. Donna notes how this suggestion makes it feel like "a day out with Gramps". (TV: Silence in the Library)
The Doctor thinks of himself as a "space buccaneer". (AUDIO: Doctor Who and the Pirates)
The Doctor and Donna had encountered Gully before. (PROSE: In the Blood)