Golden Age (audio story)


 * You may be looking for Operation Golden Age.

Golden Age was a radio play based on Torchwood. It was broadcast the week prior to the Children of Earth mini-series.

Publisher summary
On the trail of a dangerous energy field, Torchwood are led to Delhi. There they witness the simultaneous disappearance of hundreds of people, and Jack discovers that the field centres on an old colonial mansion - Torchwood India. Jack is shocked to find that Torchwood India is still going strong - he shut it down himself over 80 years ago. He's even more surprised to find that its members, including his old flame the Duchess, haven't aged a day. What is the secret of their eternal youth, and how is it linked to the deadly energy field? The team must find out - and they haven't a moment to lose, for all the time the field is expanding...

Cast

 * Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
 * Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
 * Ianto Jones - Gareth David-Lloyd
 * The Duchess - Jasmine Hyde
 * Mr Das - Amerjit Dew
 * Mahajan - Ravin J Ganatra
 * Gissing - Richard Mitchley

Music
Yes, We Have No Bananas - Silver and Cohn

Continuity

 * The Duchess refers to Torchwood India collecting "the yeti spheres of the Himalayas", a reference to the Doctor Who story The Abominable Snowmen, in which the Great Intelligence's robot Yeti are powered by a spherical device in their chests.

Download and CD release
The drama was available to UK Internet users for download in MP3 format for a period of one week after broadcast.

Lost Souls, Asylum, Golden Age and The Dead Line were released, both individually, and together as a four-disc collected box set, entitled The Radio Adventures.

Timeline

 * Golden Age occurs after: BBCR: Asylum
 * Golden Age occurs before: BBCR: The Dead Line