The Winning Side (audio story)

The Winning Side was the sixty-ninth Bernice Summerfield audio story released by Big Finish Productions. It was the fourth story of the Missing Persons series.

Publisher's summary
Bernice is lost in the ruins of an alien world. Long ago, something arrived there. Something arrived and found an idyllic civilisation: a city of wonders full of artists and scientists and poets... Something came to this world and destroyed it.

Wandering the ruins, Bernice tries to solve the mystery. What came to this planet? What wiped out its people? Was it a plague? An alien invasion?

Bernice Summerfield explores all that remains of paradise. And she discovers the name of the creature that came and wiped it out...

'Bernice Summerfield'

Plot
''Benny's escape pod crashes into a planet and she wanders the desert. She comes across a ruined city on her third day and notices a statue of herself with an inscription calling her the Woman Who Killed the World. Around the statue are tablets and graffiti telling the story of how she arrived from nowhere.''

After falling from the sky as a result of a transmat, Benny is labelled a Sky Witch and taken to King Theon in the Planet of Eternal Dreams, who is advised by Meriol to burn her. He ignores him and they become close, but Meriol continues to warn him that they are doomed as a result of her arrival. When a plague breaks out, Benny decides to help cure it, in part to restore the reputation of herself and Theon, and traces it to a spaceship in the forest. She takes Theon there after accepting his marriage proposal and watching him dismiss Meriol and explains that it is leaking fatal dallion radiation.

to be completed

Cast

 * Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
 * Theon - Hugh Skinner
 * Meriol - Geoffrey Beevers
 * First Yokel - Gary Russell
 * Second Yokel - Brett Underwood
 * Yokel Child - Katy Manning
 * The Epoch - Michael Thomson

Continuity
to be added