The Harvest (audio story)

Publisher's summary
On the morning of 12 October 2021, Hex woke up. He was expecting to go to work at St. Gart's in London as normal and, that evening, have a great time in the bar of the White Rabbit, celebrating his 23rd birthday.

But after his ex-flatmate is wheeled into A&E following a bike accident, and the strange young woman from Human Resources tries to chat him up and an eight-foot-tall guy in a Merc tries to run him down, Hex realises things are not going quite as he expected.

Then in a Shoreditch car park he meets the enigmatic Doctor, who explains that he's an extra-terrestrial investigator and something very strange is going on up on the thirty-first floor of St. Gart's.

Therefore, aided and abetted by the Doctor, and his other new friend, 'Just McShane', Hex decides to investigate. Trouble is, everything that goes on at the hospital is being observed and noted by the occupants of the thirty-first floor; occupants who are none too pleased that people are poking their noses into business that doesn't concern them; occupants who will go to extraordinary lengths to ensure that no one discovers the truth...

Cast

 * The Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * Ace - Sophie Aldred
 * Hex - Philip Olivier
 * Subject One - William Boyde
 * Doctor Farrer - Richard Derrington
 * David Garnier - David Warwick
 * Doctor Mathias - Paul Lacoux
 * System - Janie Booth
 * Polk - Mark Donovan

Continuity

 * The circumstances behind the creation of System were shown in BFA: The Gathering.
 * The Doctor discovers that Hex is in actuality "Little Tommy," the son of Cassie Scholefield, whom he and his companion Evelyn Smythe met in BFA: Project: Twilight and BFA: Project: Lazarus. He would later reveal this information to Evelyn in BFA: Thicker than Water. Having observed him from a distance in BFA: The 100 Days of the Doctor, Evelyn would eventually meet Hex in BFA: A Death in the Family.

Timeline

 * The Harvest occurs after BFA: The Rapture
 * The Harvest occurs before ST: These Things Take Time
 * The Harvest also exists as the final part of a trilogy comprising: The Reaping, The Gathering and The Harvest. This was retroactively done by Joseph Lidster.