Love and War (audio story)

 was the second story in Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who Special Releases range. It was an adaption of the novel of the same name created to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of its original release.

Publisher's summary
On a planet called Heaven, all hell is breaking loose.

Heaven is a cemetery for both humans and Draconians - a final place of rest for those lost during wartime. The Doctor arrives on a trivial mission - to find a book, or so he says - and Ace, wandering around Joycetown, becomes involved with a charismatic Traveller called Jan.

But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance. What is he trying to prevent? Is he planning some more deadly game connected with the coffins revered by the mysterious Church of Vacuum and the unusual Arch that marks the location of a secret building below ground?

Archaeologist Bernice Summerfield thinks so. Her destiny is inextricably linked with that of the Doctor, but even she may not be able to save Ace from the Time Lord's plans.

This time, has the Doctor gone too far?

A new adaptation of the Virgin New Adventures novel which introduced Bernice Summerfield; also contains the prelude from Doctor Who Magazine and a behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of the story.

Cast

 * The Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * Ace - Sophie Aldred
 * Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
 * Jan Rydd - James Redmond
 * Máire Mab Finn - Riona O'Connor
 * Roisa McIlnery - Aysha Kala
 * Christopher - Ela Gaworzewska
 * Brother Phaedrus - Bernard Holley
 * Audrey McShane - Maggie Ollerenshaw
 * Clive Aubrey - Christopher Allen
 * Julian Milton - James Unsworth
 * Piers Gavenal - Scott Handcock
 * Death - Charlie Hayes
 * Eros - Peter Sheward

Continuity

 * Although this is Bernice Summerfield's first encounter with the Doctor from her perspective, the same is not true for him. The Sixth Doctor and his companion Evelyn Smythe had met Benny and Irving Braxiatel on a dig conducted by Irving's collection. The Sixth Doctor remained completely ignorant of the fact that Benny would later travel with him. It can be assumed the archaeologist did not reveal this information to him to avoid disrupting the Web of Time. For the same reason, the Doctor does not reveal to Benny that he has previously met her future self. (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor)
 * Benny would visit Heaven once again in the aftermath of the invasion of the Braxiatel Collection by the Daleks and the Fifth Axis. (AUDIO: Death and the Daleks)
 * This is Ace's third encounter with her mother Audrey McShane since she began her travels with the Doctor. She previously met her as a baby in Maiden's Point in 1943 (TV: The Curse of Fenric) and as a toddler in London on 8 May 1945 (AUDIO: Casualties of War).