Wirrn Isle (audio story)

Wirrn Isle
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Companion(s):	Flip
Main enemy:	Wirrn Iron Buchman
Main setting:	Inchfad Isle, Aldochlay, Loch Lomond, and Nerva City, 16127
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	William Gallagher
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Simon Robinson
Sound:	Simon Robinson
Cover by:	Simon Holub
Release details
Number of parts:	4
Release number:	158
Release date:	March 2012
Format:	2 CDs Download
Production code:	7C/NAC
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-606-5 (physical); ISBN 978-1-78575-706-8 (digital)
Main Range
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Wirrn Isle was the one hundred and fifty-eighth story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by William Gallagher and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Lisa Greenwood as Flip Jackson.

Publishers summary

The year is 16127. Four decades have passed since the colonists of Nerva Beacon returned to repopulate the once-devastated Earth — and the chosen few are finding the business of survival tough.

Far beyond the sterile safety of sanitised Nerva City, transmat scientist Roger Buchman has brought his family to an island surrounded by what they once called Loch Lomond, hoping to re-establish the colony he was forced to abandon many years before.

But something else resides in the Loch. A pestilent alien infestation that the Doctor, beaming in from Nerva City, remembers only too well from his time aboard the Beacon...

The Wirrn are back. And they're hungry.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Flip Jackson - Lisa Greenwood
• Roger Buchman - Tim Bentinck
• Veronica Buchman - Jenny Funnell
• Toasty Buchman - Tessa Nicholson
• Iron Buchman - Rikki Lawton
• Sheer Jawn - Dan Starkey
• Dare - Helen Goldwyn
• Paul Dessay - Glynn Sweet

Worldbuilding

• Inchfad is the northernmost colony in Scotland.
• Flip mentions Madonna, Vanilla Ice, Foreigner and M.O.P.
• Nerva City was built on the former site of New York City.

Notes

• Before release, and indeed during recording, this story was titled The Prodigal Wirrn.
• This story is unusual in that it does not feature the TARDIS. It was the first such story in the main range since AUDIO: LIVE 34 in September 2005.
• After AUDIO: Night Thoughts, this is the second Big Finish audio drama released in the main range to take place predominantly on a remote Scottish island.
• This audio drama was recorded on 21 and 22 June 2011 at The Moat Studios.
• Subscribers whose subscriptions included this story also received the audio short story Breadcrumbs.
• This story is set between The Trial of a Time Lord and Time and the Rani.

Gallery

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  Original CD cover art.

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  Textless cover art.

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  CD centre fold art.

Continuity

• The Fourth Doctor previously encountered the Wirrn on the Nerva Beacon (TV: The Ark in Space) whereas the Eighth Doctor would later do so on Micawber's World (PROSE: Placebo Effect) and on Carista VII in the GalSec Territory. (AUDIO: Wirrn Dawn)
• Roger Buchman initially believes that the Doctor and Flip are colonists from GalSec. (TV: The Sontaran Experiment; AUDIO: Wirrn Dawn, Project Infinity)
• Flip reminds the Doctor that she has already died once. (AUDIO: The Fourth Wall)
• The Doctor once again claims that humans are "indomitable." (TV: The Ark in Space, Utopia)
• Flip mentions the Daleks (AUDIO: The Curse of Davros) and the Porcians. (AUDIO: The Fourth Wall)

External links

• Official Wirrn Isle page at bigfinish.com
• DisContinuity for Wirrn Isle at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide