A Sting in the Tale is the fourth story in the Hornets' Nest arc, a series of five audio dramas featuring Tom Baker as the Doctor alongside Richard Franklin as Mike Yates.
Publisher's summary
The Doctor arrives in a bleak English midwinter of long ago. Plunging into the snowy landscape of the Dark Ages, he learns that wild dogs besiege the local Tilling Abbey every night. When he is given shelter by the sisters of the abbey, the Doctor begs an audience with the Mother Superior they fiercely protect. Something unearthly has already happened here - and if the Doctor is right, it's connected to his recent encounters with an ancient enemy.
As night falls again, the dogs can be held off no longer - and the sisters' secret is about to be revealed. Forced to draw his enemy off into the depths of the TARDIS, the Doctor finds himself in a nightmarish chase through his own ship - but is he the pursuer, or the pursued? As they fight him on his own ground, the hornets are determined to possess his mind...
Plot
to be added
Cast
- The Doctor - Tom Baker
- Mike Yates - Richard Franklin
- Nun - Clare Corbett
- The Swarm - Rula Lenska
- Mrs Wibbsey - Susan Jameson
References
Individuals
- The Doctor mentions Sutekh and the Mandragora Helix
Notes
- This story is also available as a download from the AudioGo website.
Continuity
- The Doctor mentions many malevolent alien races, including Zygons, (DW: Terror of the Zygons) Axons, (DW: The Claws of Axos) Nestenes, (DW: Spearhead from Space, Terror of the Autons) Kraals, (DW: The Android Invasion) Pescatons, (AG: Doctor Who and the Pescatons) Krynoids, (DW: The Seeds of Doom) The Mandragora Helix, (DW: The Masque of Mandragora) and Sutekh (DW: Pyramids of Mars)
Timeline
- A Sting in the Tale occurs after AG: The Circus of Doom
- A Sting in the Tale occurs before AG: Hive of Horror
