Shadow of a Doubt (audio story)

Shadow of a Doubt was an audio story that was made specifically for the Doctor Who: Lockdown! event. It was the first of two stories written by Paul Cornell to coincide with the watchalong of Human Nature / The Family of Blood.

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In the ruins of Andromeda, Bernice Summerfield finds a mirror from Earth, in which she speaks to Daughter of Mine, who talks about the Doctors who have met her.

A few years later, Benny comes back, but the mirror was gone.

Daughter of Mine recalls being visited by many different Doctors, once a month, forever. She was visited by:
- The old one with all the hair who had been "the worst".
- The one Benny travelled with who had also been "the worst".
- The thin white aristocrat.
- The one who couldn't walk.
- The one with red hair who thought he was the last.
Daughter of Mine recalls the Doctor describing themselves as a "story that happened many times in many ways".

This story serves as the second part of a "shadow" trilogy by Paul Cornell, which began with The Shadow Passes and ended with The Shadow in the Mirror. Two other Paul Cornell stories use the word ‘shadow’ in the title; The Shadow of the Scourge and The Shadows of Avalon, but these were published decades earlier and Cornell does not consider these to be official entries into the ‘shadow’ saga.
This story was published in prose format in Adventures in Lockdown.

Daughter of Mine asked the Doctors how she could be sorry for a story that happened many times in many ways, not all of which she was even present for. (PROSE: Human Nature, TV: Human Nature, The Family of Blood, AUDIO: Master)
Benny returned to the ruins many years later to find the mirror had gone. (WC: The Shadow in the Mirror)