Beautiful Things (audio story)

Beautiful Things is the fourteenth Big Finish Productions audio drama in the Jago and Litefoot series and the second episode of Series Four.

Publisher's summary
Jago, Leela and Ellie take a trip to the theatre to see Oscar Wilde's new play and discover something sinister during the interval. Meanwhile, bodies are turning up at Litefoot’s lab, while Wilde meets his biggest fan...

Cast
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 * Henry Gordon Jago - Christopher Benjamin
 * George Litefoot - Trevor Baxter
 * Leela - Louise Jameson
 * Ellie Higson - Lisa Bowerman
 * Sgt. Quick - Conrad Asquith
 * Oscar Wilde - Alan Cox
 * Gadd - John Sackville
 * Mr Kempston - Christopher Beeny
 * Mr Hardwick - Mike Grady
 * Professor Claudius Dark - Colin Baker

Story notes

 * Alan Cox (Oscar Wilde) previously played John Matthews in BFA: The Roof of the World and Mark Seven in BFA: The Destroyers.
 * John Sackville (Gadd) previously played Polly Wright's uncle Randolph Wright and a Nazi spy who impersonated him in CC: Resistance.

Continuity

 * Litefoot's house is still being repaired. (JAL: Chronoclasm, JAL: Jago in Love)
 * Jago and Leela discuss the former's brief relationship with Abigail Woburn during their trip to Brighton. (JAL: Jago in Love) Leela tells him that she knows how it feels to lose someone. (BFG: Insurgency)
 * It was Professor Claudius Dark who had Leela suggest that she, Jago and Litefoot have a holiday in Brighton. (JAL: Jago in Love)
 * Litefoot has previously met Oscar Wilde. Following the appearance of metal spheres from the future in 1890s London, the Metropolitan Police Service issued the cover story that they were a stunt by a group by Bohemian artists. When Litefoot raised the possibility that this may, in fact, be the case, Sergeant Quick told him that the police had interviewed Wilde to that end and were confident that he had nothing to do with it. (JAL: Chronoclasm)

Timeline

 * Beautiful Things occurs after JAL: Jago in Love
 * Beautiful Things occurs before JAL: The Lonely Clock