Nocturne (audio story)

 was the ninety-second story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Dan Abnett and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace and Philip Olivier as Hex.

Publisher's summary
On the human colony planet Nocturne, there is suffering and blight, tragic symptoms of an ages-old war. Nevertheless, Nocturne is also one of the Doctor's favourite places in all of time and space, because it is here that a late, great flowering of human art — the High Renaissance — is taking place.

He has been back here, many times. It is a place of music and art which he finds inspirational and uplifting. It is a place he wants to share with Ace and Hex. It's always been a safe haven for him, a world of friends and laughter.

But with strict Martial Law imposed on the front-line city, and the brutal scourge of interstellar warfare vicing the system, how safe can anyone really be?

There is a note of death in the wild, midnight wind...

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * Ace - Sophie Aldred
 * Hex - Philip Olivier
 * Korbin Thessinger - Trevor Bannister
 * Will Alloran/Lomas Alloran - Paul David-Gough
 * Lothar Ragpole - Eric Potts
 * Lilian Dillane - Ann Rye
 * Oberst Cate Reeney / Familiars - Helen Kay

The Doctor

 * Ace and Hex remind the Doctor of several previous occasions that he brought them to places under false pretences including Breearos, Tau Sartos and Nydas III.
 * Lilian Dillane comments that it is quite a novelty for the Doctor not to have regenerated between visits to Nocturne.
 * During a visit to Glasst City five years earlier, the Doctor became embroiled in a cover-up over an attempted Foucoo assassination of the executives of the War Department.
 * During his fifth incarnation, the Doctor visited Nocturne in the company of Tegan Jovanka. He remembers it as being a "particularly lively visit."

Individuals

 * While he was in secondary school, Hex went on a school trip to Venice. He thought that everything was wet and smelled like rubbish.

Planets

 * Nocturne is located between the systems of Tau Ceti and Zeta Reticuli.
 * It is 3 parsecs from Earth.

History

 * In later centuries, Nocturne will be regarded as the greatest concentration of artists including painters, sculptors, poets, writers and composers since the Florentine Renaissance.

Technology

 * The people of Nocturne are serviced by robots known as Familiars, all of whom are female.

Continuity

 * The Doctor mentions that he has previously had numerous bad experiences with robots. (TV: Robot, The Robots of Death)