The Ghost of Bannerman Road (audio story)

	Rani
	Clyde, Luke, UNIT
	Mrs Wormwood
	13 Bannerman Road, Tower of London, 2020s
	Big Finish Productions
	Jonathan Morris
	Helen Goldwyn
	Emily Cook
	Sam Watts
	Naomi Clarke
	2.3
	The Revenge of Wormwood
	20 December 2023
	1 X 1 hour
	BFPDWRANI02
	ISBN 978-1-83868-995-7 (physical) ISBN 978-1-83868-996-4 (digital)
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The Ghost of Bannerman Road was the third and final story in the audio anthology The Revenge of Wormwood, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Jonathan Morris and featured Anjli Mohindra as Rani Chandra, Daniel Anthony as Clyde Langer, Tommy Knight as Luke Smith and Samantha Bond as Mrs Wormwood.

Publisher's summary

13 Bannerman Road. The place where it all began, where Rani, Clyde and Luke fought alien menaces with Sarah Jane. Now it’s locked up, derelict and under the watch of UNIT, because top scientists are mysteriously disappearing, and items of alien technology are being stolen from laboratories. An old friend is planning to make her return...and Rani and Clyde have to face their own ghosts.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Rani Chandra - Anjli Mohindra
• Clyde Langer - Daniel Anthony
• Luke Smith - Tommy Knight
• Mrs Wormwood - Samantha Bond
• Major Hadley - Carla de Wansey

Worldbuilding

• Sarah Jane and her friends at Bannerman Road once stopped a Voltron Constructor following its program to turn Earth into a breeding colony for its masters. Clyde and Luke were covered in Voltron cleaning fluid. Clyde recalls this was prior to his encounter with Wormwood.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• Luke still refers to Rani and Clyde as “Clani”, as he did in TV: The Man Who Never Was ^[+]Loading...["The Man Who Never Was (TV story)"].
• Mrs Wormwood recalls how a Sontaran trapped her in a time vortex, as depicted in TV: Enemy of the Bane ^[+]Loading...["Enemy of the Bane (TV story)"].
• UNIT is based in the Tower of London, which was first depicted in TV: The Christmas Invasion ^[+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"].
• The Black Archive is kept in the Tower of London, as previously depicted in TV: The Day of the Doctor ^[+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"], The Zygon Inversion ^[+]Loading...["The Zygon Inversion (TV story)"], PROSE: For the Girl Who Has Everything ^[+]Loading...["For the Girl Who Has Everything (short story)"], and AUDIO: Recruits ^[+]Loading...["Recruits (audio story)"]. Rani mentions visiting the Black Archive before in a different building, as shown in TV: Enemy of the Bane ^[+]Loading...["Enemy of the Bane (TV story)"], which Hadley explains was an overflow facility.
• Mr Smith is dormant in the attic, having been shutdown in WC: Farewell, Sarah Jane ^[+]Loading...["Farewell, Sarah Jane (webcast)"].
• Mrs Wormwood reveals that she was behind the dimensional duplicates, depicted in AUDIO: Time Schisms! ^[+]Loading...["Time Schisms! (audio story)"], and the alternate future in which the Bane invaded the Earth encountered by Rani and Clyde in AUDIO: The Star-Crossed Diversion ^[+]Loading...["The Star-Crossed Diversion (audio story)"].
• Mrs Wormwood recalls how Luke resisted her lure to join her, admiring him for rebelling against her, as occurred in AUDIO: Time Schisms! ^[+]Loading...["Time Schisms! (audio story)"].

External links

• Official The Ghost of Bannerman Road page at bigfinish.com