The Devil and Miss Carew (audio story)

The Devil and Miss Carew was the first radio drama in the Torchwood: The Lost Files mini-series. It aired the week after Series 4 started airing on Starz, but was set before Series 3.

Publisher summary
When Rhys's elderly Uncle Bryn has a heart attack while listening to the shipping forecast, it seems like another routine death at Ivyday Nursing Home. But when Rhys and Gwen go to collect the old man's effects, Gwen's suspicions are roused by another elderly resident. The conversation is cut short, though, by a fire alarm, one of many consequences of the mysterious power cuts that are sweeping the nation. Gwen has a hunch that something is wrong and her search leads her to Miss Carew, a suspiciously fit and strong octogenarian who, despite having supposedly terminal heart disease, has left Ivyday and gone back to work at the Computer firm she used to run. Miss Carew has been offered a deal by Fitzroy, a wandering alien with an aversion to electricity who is looking for a home. It's a deal that Miss Carew can't refuse. But the consequences for planet Earth are unthinkable.

Plot
Rhys's great-uncle Bryn is listening to the shipping forecast when the voice addresses him directly and offers to make him young again, but he refuses and suffers a heart attack. Rhys and Gwen collect his belongings from Ivyday Nursing Home in Penarth, where resident Miss Roberts tells them about how many fellow residents have left recently, before Gwen is called to the Hub by Jack to help look into power cuts around Wales. There, she asks Ianto to look into Joanna Carew, a resident with terminal heart disease whom he finds has returned to her job at First Valley Computing.

to be completed

Cast

 * Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
 * Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
 * Ianto Jones - Gareth David-Lloyd
 * Rhys Williams - Kai Owen
 * Fitzroy - Martin Jarvis
 * Miss Carew - Juliet Mills
 * Sian - Hayley J Williams
 * Uncle Bryn - James Walsh
 * The Old Lady - Shelley Rees

Continuity

 * Rhys asks Gwen if he could become a full-fledged member of Torchwood. This foreshadows his major involvements with the institute in TV: Children of Earth.

Download and CD release

 * The story was also available as a download from the AudioGo website until the company went into administration.