The Stones of Venice (audio story)
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| The Stones of Venice | ||
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| Doctor: | Eighth Doctor | |
| Companion(s): | Charley Pollard | |
| Main enemy: | Estella | |
| Main setting: | Venice, 2294 | |
| Key crew | ||
| Publisher: | Big Finish Productions | |
| Writer: | Paul Magrs | |
| Director: | Gary Russell | |
| Music: | Russell Stone | |
| Sound: | Andy Hardwick | |
| Cover by: | Clayton Hickman | |
| Release details | ||
| Release number: | 18 | |
| Release date: | March 2001 | |
| Format: | 4 Episodes on 2 CDs | |
| Production code: | 8D | |
| ISBN 1-903654-25-4 | ||
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The Stones of Venice was the eighteenth monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. Written by Paul Magrs, this is his first contribution to audio-based Doctor Who, although not his first time writing for the Eighth Doctor. Magrs had previously written The Scarlet Empress and The Blue Angel (with Jeremy Hoad), two novels in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures range.
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Publisher's summary 
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The Doctor and Charley decide to take a well-deserved break from the monotony of being chased, shot at and generally suffering anti-social behaviour at the hands of others.
And so they end up in Venice, well into Charley's future, as the great city prepares to sink beneath the water for the last time...
Which would be a momentous, if rather dispiriting, event to witness in itself. However, the machinations of a love-sick aristocrat, a proud art historian and a rabid High Priest of a really quite dodgy cult combine to make Venice's swansong a night to remember.
And then there's the rebellion by the web-footed amphibious underclass, the mystery of a disappearing corpse and the truth behind a curse going back further than curses usually do.
The Doctor and Charley are forced to wonder just what they have got themselves involved with this time...
Plot Edit
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- The Eighth Doctor - Paul McGann
- Charley Pollard - India Fisher
- Orsino - Michael Sheard
- Churchwell - Nick Scovell
- Pietro - Barnaby Edwards
- Ms Lavish / Estella - Elaine Ives-Cameron
- Vincenzo - Mark Gatiss
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Culture Edit
- The Doctor likens the cult worshiping Estella to Liza Minelli being the daughter of Judy Garland, in that the Duke's wife and Liza Minelli's mother were both "taken away" and deified by the populace.
Notes Edit
- This audio drama was recorded on 15 and 16 May 2000. It was the first that Paul McGann recorded for Big Finish Productions.
Continuity Edit
- The First Doctor previously visited Venice in the company of Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet in 1609 (PROSE: The Empire of Glass) whereas the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams would later do so in 1580 (TV: The Vampires of Venice).
- The artwork in Churchwell's collection of the woman in the jar is most likely a reference to the Empress' predecessors in Paul Magrs' PROSE: The Scarlet Empress.
External links Edit
- Official The Stones of Venice page at bigfinish.com
- Detailed synopsis of The Stones of Venice at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- DisContinuity for The Stones of Venice at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide
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