Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Grel Escape (audio story)

 was the twentieth Bernice Summerfield audio story released by Big Finish Productions. This story features the first use of Bernice and Jason Kane's time rings since the "Time Ring Trilogy" the last story of which was Just War. This was also the first appearance in an audio story of the Grel who first appeared in the first Bernice Summerfield audio story Oh No It Isn't!.

Written by Jacqueline Rayner this was her first Bernice Summerfield audio story that was not an adaption of a novel. This story is something of a homage to the 1965 Doctor Who television story The Chase with several scenes throughout the story mimicking those that appeared in the Doctor Who TV story.

Publisher's summary
Young children can be difficult. Tantrums, toy-throwing, not wanting to go to bed, whisking their mothers on dangerous journeys throughout all of time and space...

Jason wants Benny’s son Peter to have a normal childhood. Peter has other plans. And unfortunately, Peter also has Benny and Jason’s Time Rings. And knows how to use them. Even more unfortunately, the fact-obsessed, tentacle-faced Grel have built a time machine, and they’re after Peter.

So Benny finds herself on the run, landing in frightening festivals and deadly deserts, facing ridiculously inaccurate robot doubles and hideously accented tourists, in what can only be described as a sort of chase...

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
 * Jason Kane - Stephen Fewell
 * Joseph - Steven Wickham
 * Sophia - Julia Houghton
 * The Grel - Daniel Hogarth
 * Peter Summerfield - Dacey Warriner

Cultural references from the real world

 * There is a reference to Picnic at Hanging Rock (and an explanation of how the girls disappeared).

Time travel

 * Jason tries to get Peter to use his and Bernice's time rings.

Continuity

 * Jason and Bernice were given their time rings in PROSE: Happy Endings.
 * The occupation of the Collection is mentioned. It began in PROSE: Life During Wartime and ended in AUDIO: Death and the Daleks.
 * Sophia, Peter's godmother first appeared in PROSE: The Glass Prison.
 * This is the first time that Bernice has travelled through time since AUDIO: Just War.