The Shadow at the Edge of the World (audio story)

 was the second story of the audio anthology Charlotte Pollard: Series One. It was written by Jonathan Barnes and featured India Fisher as Charlotte Pollard and Michael Maloney as the Viyrans.

Publisher's summary
The Ever-and-Ever-Prolixity has granted Charlotte Pollard her dearest wish and set her loose once more in time and space. But where has it brought her? Waking amid the minatory darkness of a forest floor, she has no notion of where she is, or when.

Welcomed at gunpoint and beset by danger, Charley finds herself immediately embroiled in a frantic struggle for survival. For there are perilous shadows in this night-time forest. There are hungry, watchful eyes. And there is something ancient also, something tracking her, something implacable and ruthless which knows Miss Pollard of old...

Plot
At "the very edge of the world", Emmeline Leigh is surrounded by dark things and repressed by evil with no help forthcoming. Without any saviour in sight, she thinks about Doctor Faustus and how the devils will come.

Charley awakes in a forest with Mrs Turnerman pointing a gun at her, demanding to know who she is and what she is doing there. They are joined by Dr Susan Broadstairs and Charity Savage, who are looking for Mrs Turnerman. Broadstairs admonishes Mrs Turnerman for her treatment of Charley and the four women flee when they hear the Slaverings.

to be completed

Cast

 * Charley Pollard - India Fisher
 * Viyran - Michael Maloney
 * The Slaverings - Nicholas Briggs
 * Susan Broadstairs - Abigail McKern
 * Charity Savage - Nicola Weeks
 * Emmeline Leigh / Viyran - Lucy May Barker
 * Mrs Turnerman - Jacqueline King

Worldbuilding

 * Leigh mentions Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.
 * Charley described the Slaverings as a "cross between a silver-backed gorilla and Mr Hyde".
 * Charley tells Charity that she learned never to give up from a "a man [she] knew a very long time ago."

Continuity

 * Charley refers to the British airship R101. (AUDIO: Storm Warning)
 * Charley mentions that she has previously encountered people with psychic abilities. (AUDIO: Scaredy Cat, Something Inside, Memory Lane, Patient Zero)
 * Charley tells the Viyran that she has already made the choice between death and spending the rest of her life as their prisoner. (AUDIO: The Lamentation Cipher)
 * The message from the future Viyrans refers to the fact that Charley possesses the Lamentation Cipher. (AUDIO: The Lamentation Cipher)