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Post by omega on Aug 1, 2017 13:44:48 GMT
DOCTOR WHO - MAIN RANGE » 231. THE BEHEMOTH Released October 2017SynopsisBath, 1756 – and a very dashing gentleman known only as the Doctor is newly arrived in town, accompanied by his lady friends Mrs Clarke and Mrs Ramon. He’s created a stir among the gentlefolk of Georgian high society – and a stir in the heart of merry widow Mrs Theodosia Middlemint, rumour has it. They are not the only strangers from abroad causing tongues to wag, however. The mysterious Lady Clara, come from Amsterdam in the company of the noble Captain Van Der Meer, has the whole of Bath agog. Who is she, really? What is she, really? But there’s something terrible beneath the veneer of Georgian gentility. As awful a horror as the Doctor has ever exposed, hidden inside Balsam’s Brassworks. Something that needs to be brought to light, for the sake of all humanity. Written By: Marc Platt Directed By: Jamie Anderson CASTColin Baker (The Doctor), Lisa Greenwood (Flip Jackson), Miranda Raison (Mrs Constance Clarke), Glynn Sweet (Sir Geoffrey Balsam), Georgina Moon (Mrs Middlemint), Liam McKenna (Titus Craven / Rev Mr Philip Naylor), Giles New (Captain Douwemout Van Der Meer), Diveen Henry (Sarah), Ben Arogundade (Gorembe) Other roles played by the cast.
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Post by omega on Aug 1, 2017 13:47:45 GMT
Flip's going by her married name, interesting. The post-Quicksilver Constance and her dynamic with Flip should be fun, they'll have the Doctor sorted.
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Post by kimalysong on Aug 1, 2017 14:04:34 GMT
This is the one Nick told me about at Regen Who  |
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Post by chronotis on Aug 2, 2017 1:11:11 GMT
The mysterious Lady Clara?
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Post by fingersmash on Aug 2, 2017 1:16:26 GMT
The mysterious Lady Clara? Has Miss Coleman been spotted around any recording studios? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 1:24:53 GMT
The Sixth Doctor releases are always the releases I look forward to the most and this sounds intriuging. They really are pulling on The Last Adventure, aren't they? |
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Aug 2, 2017 3:23:40 GMT
The Sixth Doctor releases are always the releases I look forward to the most and this sounds intriuging. They really are pulling on The Last Adventure, aren't they? Agreed. The yearly 6th Doctor run is always the one I look forward to the most. |
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Post by constonks on Aug 2, 2017 3:24:46 GMT
Hey looks like I guessed right about who Clara was when they mentioned her months ago. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2017 1:40:04 GMT
Flip's going by her married name, interesting. The post-Quicksilver Constance and her dynamic with Flip should be fun, they'll have the Doctor sorted. I think it's more to deal with her guilt over essentinally abandoning Jared. It seems she pretty much settled for him and life back home after the events of Scavenger. I love Flip, I really do, but Jared deserves better. |
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Post by number13 on Aug 3, 2017 8:29:37 GMT
Hey looks like I guessed right about who Clara was when they mentioned her months ago. {Spoiler}https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_(rhinoceros)
I know Jenna Coleman has proven she can play a historical figure, but a rhinoceros seems beyond her range to be honest. {Spoiler}On audio, anything goes! It would be one heck of an impressive bit of cameo casting for BF to pull off though! And 'Clara' isn't in the cast list so probably doesn't have many lines...  |
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Post by omega on Aug 3, 2017 11:50:33 GMT
Hey looks like I guessed right about who Clara was when they mentioned her months ago. {Spoiler}https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_(rhinoceros)
I know Jenna Coleman has proven she can play a historical figure, but a rhinoceros seems beyond her range to be honest. {Spoiler}On audio, anything goes! It would be one heck of an impressive bit of cameo casting for BF to pull off though! And 'Clara' isn't in the cast list so probably doesn't have many lines... Or the Lady Clara isn't a person. Many stories have objects or locations which are referred to with people names. It's acknowledged in the commentary by Joss Whedon on Serenity (as in the follow up to Firefly) as a trope he doesn't always like, but felt appropriate in that film. In Serenity the planet the crew go to is called Miranda. |
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Post by constonks on Aug 3, 2017 15:46:19 GMT
{Spoiler}On audio, anything goes! It would be one heck of an impressive bit of cameo casting for BF to pull off though! And 'Clara' isn't in the cast list so probably doesn't have many lines... Or the Lady Clara isn't a person. Many stories have objects or locations which are referred to with people names. It's acknowledged in the commentary by Joss Whedon on Serenity (as in the follow up to Firefly) as a trope he doesn't always like, but felt appropriate in that film. In Serenity the planet the crew go to is called Miranda. Sure but the "companion" of Lady Clara (who is listed in the cast) is a historical figure as well, and he's mentioned in the wikipedia page under the spoiler tag. |
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Post by number13 on Aug 3, 2017 16:26:19 GMT
{Spoiler}On audio, anything goes! It would be one heck of an impressive bit of cameo casting for BF to pull off though! And 'Clara' isn't in the cast list so probably doesn't have many lines... Many stories have objects or locations which are referred to with people names. It's acknowledged in the commentary by Joss Whedon on Serenity (as in the follow up to Firefly) as a trope he doesn't always like, but felt appropriate in that film. In Serenity the planet the crew go to is called Miranda. I'm quite sure Clara in this story isn't a person. People don't weigh a tonne and have four large feet and a horn. Not on Earth anyway. (Hence my joke about her not having many lines! ) |
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Post by omega on Aug 3, 2017 16:33:50 GMT
Or the Lady Clara isn't a person. Many stories have objects or locations which are referred to with people names. It's acknowledged in the commentary by Joss Whedon on Serenity (as in the follow up to Firefly) as a trope he doesn't always like, but felt appropriate in that film. In Serenity the planet the crew go to is called Miranda. I'm quite sure Clara in this story isn't a person. People don't weigh a tonne and have four large feet and a horn. Not on Earth anyway. (Hence my joke about her not having many lines! ) I in gore you, please get to the point or I'll be on the horns of a dilemma. |
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Post by mark687 on Aug 7, 2017 18:24:43 GMT
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Post by number13 on Oct 4, 2017 0:09:23 GMT
It seems a long time since we got the first news of this story back in the spring, a Sixth Doctor historical set {Spoiler}"when there was slavery in England." The description we got to begin with threw me off the scent a bit because I was imagining a much earlier time when {Spoiler}slavery (or 'serfdom' as they called it) was an organised part of English life with a legal framework, back in the Middle Ages.
But by 1756 when this story is set, serfdom and the laws which structured it had been abolished centuries before. So there was no legal basis for slavery in England.
BUT if someone was brought into England as a slave already, the law did not say this was illegal (or indeed legal.)
A decision on this legal distinction (no, there wasn't slavery in England because no law said there was) eventually freed all the people kept enslaved here (over ten thousand) - though sadly not for over two decades after the Doctor's visit. And even then it did nothing for all the people kidnapped and enslaved in British colonies in horrifying conditions, but at least it was a small first action in the long fight for abolition.
Normally I try not to learn too much about releases in advance but as the main cat was out of the bag on this one before we even knew the title, I've followed the news and heard the trailer and the story gets better the more I've learned. Mixing a comedy of manners and polite society with a strange visitor to England - and with society at its very worst; I'm expecting another cracker of an historical from Marc Platt for my favourite audio Doctor and two wonderful Companions. |
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Post by TinDogPodcast on Oct 4, 2017 15:40:46 GMT
Only listened to ep 1 so far. It's very good.
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Post by chrischapman1981 on Oct 4, 2017 16:27:53 GMT
Only listened to ep 1 so far. It's very good. Ooo - is it out now? |
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Oct 4, 2017 17:26:42 GMT
Only listened to ep 1 so far. It's very good. Ooo - is it out now? Nope. He probably has his review copy. |
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Post by chrischapman1981 on Oct 4, 2017 21:29:59 GMT
Nope. He probably has his review copy. I am silly. |
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