Sphinx Lightning (audio story)

 was the twenty-third Subscriber Short Trips audio story. It was read by Stephen Critchlow. It was released as a subscriber-only download, available with subscriptions that included The Secret History.

Summary
The Third Doctor and Jo arrive in 1948 in Ember, an English village commandeered by the army for training. In the churchyard that sits amongst the deserted, bullet-marked buildings they meet a woman named Emma, who is leaving flowers at a grave. When some soldiers arrive on the scene, the Doctor convinces them that he is working for the Ministry; he, Jo and Emma look on as the military begin testing their new remote-controlled tank, code-named ‘Sphinx Lightning’. Unfortunately the tanks awaken a long-dormant power imprisoned within a nearby barrow – the creature takes over the weapons of destruction and sends them on a rampage…

Characters

 * Third Doctor
 * Jo Grant
 * Emma

Worldbuilding
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Continuity
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