Nocturne (audio story)

 was the ninety-second monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions.

Publisher's summary
On the human colony planet Nocturne, there is suffering and blight, tragic symptoms of an ages-old war. Nevertheless, Nocturne is also one of the Doctor's favourite places in all of time and space, because it is here that a late, great flowering of human art — the High Renaissance — is taking place.

He has been back here, many times. It is a place of music and art which he finds inspirational and uplifting. It is a place he wants to share with Ace and Hex. It's always been a safe haven for him, a world of friends and laughter.

But with strict Martial Law imposed on the front-line city, and the brutal scourge of interstellar warfare vicing the system, how safe can anyone really be?

There is a note of death in the wild, midnight wind...

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * Ace - Sophie Aldred
 * Hex - Philip Olivier
 * Korbin Thessinger - Trevor Bannister
 * Will Alloran/Lomas Alloran - Paul David-Gough
 * Lothar Ragpole - Eric Potts
 * Lilian Dillane - Ann Rye
 * Oberst Cate Reeney / Familiars - Helen Kay

The Doctor

 * Ace and Hex remind the Doctor of several previous occasions that he brought them to places under false pretences including Breearos, Tau Sartos and Nydas III.
 * Lilian Dillane comments that it is quite a novelty for the Doctor not to have regenerated between visits to Nocturne.
 * During a visit to Glasst City five years earlier, the Doctor became embroiled in a cover-up over an attempted Foucoo assassination of the executives of the War Department.
 * During his fifth incarnation, the Doctor visited Nocturne in the company of Tegan Jovanka. He remembers it as being a "particularly lively visit."

Individuals

 * While he was in secondary school, Hex went on a school trip to Venice. He thought that everything was wet and smelled like rubbish.

Planets

 * Nocturne is located between the systems of Tau Ceti and Zeta Reticuli.

History

 * In later centuries, Nocturne will be regarded as the greatest concentration of artists including painters, sculptors, poets, writers and composers since the Florentine Renaissance.

Technology

 * The people of Nocturne are serviced by robots known as Familiars, all of whom are female.

Continuity

 * The Doctor mentions that he has previously had numerous bad experiences with robots. (TV: Robot, The Robots of Death)