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|image = Birthright audio cover.jpg | |image = Birthright audio cover.jpg | ||
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|adapted from = Birthright (novel) | |adapted from = Birthright (novel) | ||
|main character = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | |main character = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | ||
|featuring = [[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[John Lafayette|Lafayette]] | |featuring = [[Jason Kane|Jason]], [[John Lafayette|Lafayette]] | ||
|enemy = [[Charrl | |enemy = [[Charrl]] | ||
|setting = {{il|[[London]], [[1909]]|[[Antýkhon]], [[22000]]}} | |setting = {{il|[[London]], [[1909]]|[[Antýkhon]], [[22000]]}} | ||
|writer = Based on a novel by [[Nigel Robinson]]; adapted for audio by [[Jacqueline Rayner]] | |writer = Jacqueline Rayner | ||
|contributors = {{il|Based on a novel by [[Nigel Robinson]];|adapted for audio by [[Jacqueline Rayner]]}} | |||
|director = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | |director = [[Nicholas Briggs]] | ||
|producer = [[Gary Russell]] | |producer = [[Gary Russell]] | ||
|music = Nicholas Briggs | |music = Nicholas Briggs | ||
|sound = Nicholas Briggs | |sound = Nicholas Briggs | ||
|publisher = Big Finish Productions | |publisher = Big Finish Productions | ||
|cover = [[Peter Elson]] | |cover = [[Peter Elson]] | ||
|release date = | |release date = February 1999 | ||
|format = 2 CDs<br/>Download | |format = 2 CDs<br/>Download | ||
|production code = BFPCD4 | |production code = BFPCD4 | ||
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|next = Just War (audio story) | |next = Just War (audio story) | ||
|epcount = 2 | |epcount = 2 | ||
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'''''Birthright''''' was the fourth ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' audio drama produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was the second in a trilogy of stories known as the "Time Ring Trilogy" whose arc element was the use of [[Bernice Summerfield]] and [[Jason Kane]]'s wedding [[time ring]]s, given to them when they were married in ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]''. | '''''Birthright''''' was the fourth ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' audio drama produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was the second in a trilogy of stories known as the "Time Ring Trilogy" whose arc element was the use of [[Bernice Summerfield]] and [[Jason Kane]]'s wedding [[time ring]]s, given to them when they were married in ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]''. | ||
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Jason arrives on [[Antýkhon]] and is brought before [[Ch'tizz|Queen Ch'tizz]] of the [[Charrl]] and, when she threatens him with being eaten, he tells her about [[Jason Kane's Time Ring|his Time Ring]] and his [[universal translator]]. She demands his assistance in getting the Charrl through the [[Great Divide (Birthright)|Great Divide]] to another world found by the [[Chronomancer]]s, as their current means of travelling there causes the Charrl's bodies to decay over time. Jason learns that the other world is Earth and promises to get [[Bernice Summerfield's Time Ring|Benny's Time Ring]] to help them [[alien invasion|invade]]; when Khan of the [[Brotherhood of the New Dawn]] contacts Ch'tizz about the appearance of a strange woman, she realises that it is Benny and commands him to get her ring. Jason discovers that Antýkhon is Earth and sees that the Charrl's [[larder]] is full of humans. | Jason arrives on [[Antýkhon]] and is brought before [[Ch'tizz|Queen Ch'tizz]] of the [[Charrl]] and, when she threatens him with being eaten, he tells her about [[Jason Kane's Time Ring|his Time Ring]] and his [[universal translator]]. She demands his assistance in getting the Charrl through the [[Great Divide (Birthright)|Great Divide]] to another world found by the [[Chronomancer]]s, as their current means of travelling there causes the Charrl's bodies to decay over time. Jason learns that the other world is Earth and promises to get [[Bernice Summerfield's Time Ring|Benny's Time Ring]] to help them [[alien invasion|invade]]; when Khan of the [[Brotherhood of the New Dawn]] contacts Ch'tizz about the appearance of a strange woman, she realises that it is Benny and commands him to get her ring. Jason discovers that Antýkhon is Earth and sees that the Charrl's [[larder]] is full of humans. | ||
After catching Charlie, who stole the victim's [[necklace]], Benny makes him assist her with his local knowledge. She goes to a [[library]] and looks up Lafayette, reading that he was recently [[marriage|married]], and is given a copy of a letter written by Lafayette and sent to all major libraries and [[museum]]s in the country in case she visited. The letter tells of how he has stored the chronokinetiscope at the [[bank]] on [[Guernsey]] and that he will always remember her even if they never meet again. | After catching Charlie, who stole the victim's [[necklace]], Benny makes him assist her with his local knowledge. She goes to a [[library]] and looks up Lafayette, reading that he was recently [[marriage|married]], and is given a copy of a letter written by Lafayette and sent to all major libraries and [[museum]]s in the country in case she visited. The letter tells of how he has stored the chronokinetiscope at the [[bank]] on [[Guernsey]] and that he will always remember her even if they never meet again. | ||
Benny places her Time Ring in a safety deposit box and goes to Khan's shop where she learns of the New Dawn and their belief that mankind has become decadent and [[evil]]. When she returns to | Benny places her Time Ring in a safety deposit box and goes to Khan's shop where she learns of the New Dawn and their belief that mankind has become decadent and [[evil]]. When she returns to Popov's [[hotel]] with Charlie, she is immediately arrested by Hawkins on the order of [[Prior|Chief Inspector Prior]] for the attempted murder of the woman the night before. Khan, who told Prior to have her arrested her, informs Ch'tizz that they will soon have the second Time Ring. | ||
=== Part two === | === Part two === | ||
At the [[police station]], Benny's jewellery is confiscated and Prior demands to know where her ring is, soon giving away that he is part of the New Dawn. Before she can be transported to [[Holloway Prison]], | At the [[police station]], Benny's jewellery is confiscated and Prior demands to know where her ring is, soon giving away that he is part of the New Dawn. Before she can be transported to [[Holloway Prison]], Popov ensures that the charges are dropped by speaking on her behalf and tells her about the murder of seven women in the course of an hour. A Charrl appears and bites Benny before vanishing, her wound indicating that the women were all killed by Charrl. She pays Charlie to break into Khan's shop with her and finds [[newspaper]] clippings about changes to the [[climate]] after a [[meteorite]] hit Russia. A disorientated Charrl appears and Charlie kills it. Before they can leave, Khan enters and has Benny taken to the [[cellar]] whilst Charlie escapes. | ||
Jason is imprisoned and visited by one of Ch'tizz's daughters, [[Isk]], who does not agree with her mother's plans and tells him that the Charrl on Earth have already infected humans in 1909 with their [[egg]]s. | Jason is imprisoned and visited by one of Ch'tizz's daughters, [[Isk]], who does not agree with her mother's plans and tells him that the Charrl on Earth have already infected humans in 1909 with their [[egg]]s. He manages to convince Ch'tizz to allow him to go to Earth to find Benny's Time Ring to stabilise the Great Divide, although Ch'tizz does not believe that Benny will help willingly and forbids him from telling Benny what he is up to. In return, she promises to send no more Charrl there. | ||
Khan tells Benny about Antýkhon, the Charrl's mission and how the Great Divide was opened by the energy of the meteorite in Russia and fixed in London when the Charrl found him. In return for his help, Khan will, he is told, become Ch'tizz's second and be permitted to reorder human society. He is aware of Benny's safety deposit box thanks to the New Dawn's connections, but Benny has repurposed her universal translator to keep people out. | Khan tells Benny about Antýkhon, the Charrl's mission and how the Great Divide was opened by the energy of the meteorite in Russia and fixed in London when the Charrl found him. In return for his help, Khan will, he is told, become Ch'tizz's second and be permitted to reorder human society. He is aware of Benny's safety deposit box thanks to the New Dawn's connections, but Benny has repurposed her universal translator to keep people out. Charlie and Popov rescue her from the cellar and, when she returns to her hotel room, Jason accidentally hits her in the face. He [[apology|apologises]], slips her some [[knockout drop]]s and steals the key to the safety deposit box, deducing that her password is "Lafayette" and taking her ring. | ||
''to be | Infected with eggs by the Charrl's bite, Benny comes under the Chronomancers' [[influence]] and takes the two Time Rings after Jason leaves them behind. She heads to the Great Divide and is urged by Khan to use the rings whilst Popov and Charlie work to [[evacuation|evacuate]] everybody in the area. With the Great Divide opened, Ch'tizz appears and declares that humanity will be destroyed to make room for the Charrl, contrary to what she told Khan. Benny suggests that they settle in areas uninhabitable by humans, but a fight breaks out between the Charrl and the police. Using their Time Rings, Benny and Jason close the Great Divide and begin negotiations with Ch'tizz, deciding that they will move the Great Divide to an uninhabited world for the Charrl to make their home. | ||
Without the influence of the Charrl, the eggs inside Benny and any other women will wither and die. Benny says goodbye to Popov and Charlie before joining Jason in moving the Great Divide, which will likely result in them both being moved through time. Should they be separated, they plan to meet on Guernsey where the chronokinetiscope is. The Charrl move down the Great Divide to [[Analaya VI]], but Khan, desperate for the Charrl to stay, rushes towards it and it disappears. Popov wanders what damage Khan has done. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
* [[Bernice Summerfield]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]] | * [[Bernice Summerfield]] - [[Lisa Bowerman]] | ||
* [[Mikhail | * [[Mikhail Vladimir Popov]] - [[Colin Baker]] | ||
* [[Jason Kane]] - [[Stephen Fewell]] | * [[Jason Kane]] - [[Stephen Fewell]] | ||
* [[John Lafayette]] - [[Barnaby Edwards]] | * [[John Lafayette]] - [[Barnaby Edwards]] | ||
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* [[Charlie Jackson|Charlie]] - [[Benjamin Roddy]] | * [[Charlie Jackson|Charlie]] - [[Benjamin Roddy]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* Benny drinks [[gin]]. | * Benny drinks [[gin]]. | ||
* Benny mentions [[Eliza Doolittle]]. | * Benny mentions [[Eliza Doolittle]]. | ||
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* [[Natasha Popova|Natasha]] was murdered in [[St Petersburg]]. | * [[Natasha Popova|Natasha]] was murdered in [[St Petersburg]]. | ||
* Benny is told that she will be taken to [[Holloway Prison]]. | * Benny is told that she will be taken to [[Holloway Prison]]. | ||
* Jason wears [[jeans]]. | |||
* Jason derisively refers to Misha as "[[Mikhail Gorbachev|Gorbachev]]". | * Jason derisively refers to Misha as "[[Mikhail Gorbachev|Gorbachev]]". | ||
* Jason has seen the film ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]''. | * Jason has seen the film ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]''. | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* Jason mentions that he has just come from [[Babylon]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Walking to Babylon (audio story)|Walking to Babylon]]'') | * Jason mentions that he has just come from [[Babylon]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Walking to Babylon (audio story)|Walking to Babylon]]'') | ||
* Jason steals Benny's Time Ring again. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Walking to Babylon (audio story)|Walking to Babylon]]'') | |||
* Both contradictory accounts of her visit to [[Guernsey]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Just War (audio story)|Just War]]'') appear to have taken place ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Paydirt]]'') and Bernice was able to recall them both. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dear Friend]]'') | * Both contradictory accounts of her visit to [[Guernsey]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Just War (audio story)|Just War]]'') appear to have taken place ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Paydirt]]'') and Bernice was able to recall them both. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dear Friend]]'') | ||
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