A Death in the Family (audio story)

Publisher's summary
"The future folds into the past. The homeless hero has fallen. Now begins the time of three tales: The Tale of the Herald. The Tale of the Hidden Woman. The Tale of the Final Speaker. When the last tale is told, all the lights shall fail. The world will end."

21st century London: Nobody No One, the extra-dimensional Word Lord, is again running amok. Only this time, he's unbeatable – and a terrible tragedy is about to unfold.

It is written.

Cast

 * The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * Ace - Sophie Aldred
 * Hex - Philip Olivier
 * Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
 * Nobody No-One - Ian Reddington
 * Corporal/Novice/Henry Noone - John Dorney
 * Ayl-San/Faber/Nurse - Alison Thea-Skot
 * Captain Stillwell/Applin/Tour Guide - Andrew Dickens
 * Ann-the-Van/Story Speaker/Webster - Harriet Kershaw

The Doctor

 * The Doctor has something like a calendar of when his friends will die.

Individuals

 * The Doctor dies, killed by Nobody No One.
 * Evelyn dies of a heart attack, capturing Nobody No One as she does though.
 * Henry Noone writes a story of what he thinks Ace would be like in ten years, if they married, and through a complicated process through time, creates Dr. Dorothy Noone, a being capable of combating the Word Lord; Nobody No One.

Locations

 * The Doctor and Ace search the remains of the Forge's building for alien technology with Captain Stillwell of UNIT.
 * Ace meets up with Henry Noone on a couple of occasions in the The White Rabbit pub in London, 2027.
 * By 2027, the United Kingdom is ruled by a king.

TARDIS

 * The Doctor's TARDIS is still white.
 * Ace can't fly the TARDIS.

Time travel

 * Evelyn Rossiter was transported from Világ to the planet Pelachan via a temporal device.
 * The people of Pelachan are descendants of the crew of a human time ship called the Pelican that crashed on their planet more than 2,000 years earlier. This occurred billions of years prior to the evolution of humanity on Earth. The name of the planet is a corruption of that of the time ship.

Continuity

 * Nobody No One previously appeared in BFA: Forty-Five.
 * Evelyn mentions meeting Julius Caesar's parents (BFA: 100 BC) and Charles Darwin (BFA: Bloodtide), "leaping from steam trains in the Wild West" (CC: A Town Called Fortune) and spending time "in a spacesuit bouncing about Axos with that poor boy Brewster." (BFA: The Feast of Axos)
 * Evelyn previously met the Seventh Doctor in BFA: Thicker than Water. Prior to that brief encounter, she saw him, Ace and Hex from afar in BFA: The 100 Days of the Doctor.

For the Doctor, Ace and Hex

 * A Death in the Family occurs after BFA: Project: Destiny
 * A Death in the Family occurs before BFA: Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge

For Evelyn

 * A Death in the Family occurs after BFA: Thicker than Water