The Worst Thing in the World (audio story)

 was the thirty-first Bernice Summerfield audio story released by Big Finish Productions. It was the third story of the seventh season.

Publisher's summary
The Drome was set up with the best - or at least the most blatantly venal - of intentions. A self-contained planetoid-community, wired with microcams, designed to pump out product to the GalNet media-stream twenty-six hours a Galactic Standard Day.

But now the Medium is rotting minds and turning them to murder. The machine is turning out brain-dead zombies, setting them to stumble through the twists and turns of some inhuman and unguessable plan - and Professor Bernice Summerfield, and her ex-husband Jason, are caught in the middle of it!

Now Benny finds herself in a desperate fight for her life. A fight so desperate that she will be forced to do something she has never done before, a horror that she never imagined she could bring herself to commit. The worst thing in the world.

Plot
Jason travels to the Drome, a community populated by performers and technicians, but Media Blitz is unable to record his segment advertising Xenomorphic Bondage Slaves Part Thirty-seven after one actor attacks his supporting cast on Inspector Wembley and another kills founder Marvin Glass in front of his daughter, Hannah, whilst in costume as a highwayman. When Jason returns to the Braxiatel Collection, he asks Benny to help him investigate and persuades her by suggesting that it could be a psychic phenomenon and by telling her that there will be an open bar.

to be completed

Cast

 * Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
 * Jason Kane - Stephen Fewell
 * Marvin Glass - Bernard Holley
 * Hannah Glass - Jane Milligan
 * Jane Peters - Jenny Livsey
 * Zombettes - Sean Connolly, Simon Guerrier, Joseph Lidster, Edward Salt

Continuity

 * Benny has previously sung as part of the story. (AUDIO: Oh No It Isn't!)