Council of War (audio story)

Council of War was the sixty-eighth release in the Companion Chronicles audio range. It was the twelfth story of season 7. It was written by Simon Barnard and Paul Morris and featured Sergeant Benton.

Publisher's summary
At the Doctor's request, Sergeant Benton is investigating ghosts and missing people in Kettering, while undercover as a local councillor.

And that's how he comes to meet Margery Phipps.

An alien incursion in the town hall leads them on a journey to a terrible future — where Margery discovers how she changed a world, and the life of a whole civilisation hangs in the balance...

Part one
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Part two
to be added

Cast

 * Sergeant Benton - John Levene
 * Margery Phipps / Beryl Umbridge - Sinead Keenan

Uncredited cast

 * Documentary narrator - Lisa Bowerman

Continuity

 * Benton mentions that Captain Mike Yates was brainwashed by BOSS in Llanfairfach, Wales and that Jo Grant has left UNIT to travel up the Amazon with Professor Clifford Jones. (TV: The Green Death)
 * Benton states that the Doctor does not believe in ghosts. (TV: Doctor Who)
 * Benton mentions that he hasn't worn his dinner jacket since 1968, a reference to TV: The Invasion, when he and Corporal Jack Tracy went undercover to locate the Second Doctor.
 * Benton refers to fighting the Cybermen (TV: The Invasion) and the Axons (TV: The Claws of Axos).
 * Benton tells Margery that time travellers from the future have been mistaken for ghosts before. (TV: Day of the Daleks)
 * When Benton asks Margery if she is going to comment that the TARDIS is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, she states, "Well, it's a bit obvious, isn't it?" (TV: The Three Doctors)
 * Benton tells Margery that he had to postpone their date because London is being attacked by dinosaurs. (TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
 * By the 2010s, Benton and Margery were married and owned a pub called the White Hart. (AUDIO: Call to Arms)