Cardiff Unknown - October 2018 (audio story)

Cardiff Unknown - October 2018
Main character(s):	Jeff, Niamh
Main setting:	Cardiff, October 2018
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Release details
Release date:	October 2018
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Cardiff Unknown - October 2018 was an in-world podcast released by Big Finish Productions to promote the new Torchwood series God Among Us.

Publisher's summary

Welcome to Cardiff Unknown - a podcast about the strange happenings in the Welsh Capital of the world. Each week Jeff and Niamh bring you the spooky news from Cardiff, the city that the UK forgot.

This week, we find out, is there a secret alien-hunting base in Cardiff Bay? There's the mystery of room 111. What happened with Red Doors? Is the Cardiff Bay Intelligent Hotel and Spa not for a human clientele? And what happened to Flight 405?

Plus, we have an interview with local podcast legend Brent Hayden, host of the Tomorrow's Truth Podcast. And does Geoff really have a new girlfriend?

This episode is sponsored by Chef Bandit, available via Deliverables!

Thanks to the Outsiders Podcast Network, made by the Ross Foundation for hosting this podcast.

Trigger warning: horror, minor swearing, mystery!

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Jeff - Peter Heenan
• Niamh - Abbie Hern

Uncredited cast

• Andy Davidson - Tom Price
• Tyler Steele - Jonny Green

Worldbuilding

People

• Jeff and Niamh call the death of George Wilson the "Mystery of Room 111", after the room at the Gabriel Hotel where he was killed.
• They interview Andy and Tyler in the Cardiff Bay area, who both claim that rumours about a secret organisation are untrue.

Organisations

• The secret organisation in Cardiff is an open secret among locals who've been around long enough.
• Niamh's grandmother says that the organisation protecting Cardiff for over a hundred years, saving the city from all those recent threats, is the gas board.

Locations

• Niamh went to university at Bath.

Businesses

• They advertise for Chef Bandit, a Deliverables company.

Food and drink

• Thanks to Chef Bandit, Jeff claims to have made a meal with sheered scallops, monk fish, and oyster sauce linguini, finished off with a vegan "heritage" cheese gourd.

Notes

• The podcast hosts were originally spelled Geoff and Neve in the publisher's summary on the Big Finish website. The spelling was later changed to Jeff and Niamh respectively, though only in the first instance. This was amended on the Big Finish website but not on Soundcloud.
• The podcast, originally published on Big Finish website, was added as a bonus feature on the first disc of the God Among Us 2 box set, where actors playing the podcast hosts were credited.
• Despite the date of release currently stated to be 1 October 2018, the podcast is not present in the archived versions of the Big Finish website up to and including 23 October.

Continuity

• Jeff and Niamh discuss The Eye of Providence, the conspiracy theory blog run by Sam Hallett in the 2000s. They refer to Hallett's discoveries and to his suicide. (AUDIO: The Conspiracy)
• They also discuss George Wilson, his theories about the Committee, and to his own death. (AUDIO: The Conspiracy)
• Chef Bandit is a Deliverables company. Jeff and Niamh's ad makes reference to their delivery service being able to find you, no matter what. "No getting away from either of them!" Deliverables was the Ro-Jedda operation which Tyler briefly worked for, and investigated, and which killed Hasan. (AUDIO: Zero Hour)
• Niamh blames the rocketing rent prices, (AUDIO: Orr) the collapse of the health system, the security outsourcing, the riots, the influx of refugees, the terrorist attacks, the collapse of the Severn Bridge, the train service, the price of aspirin, (AUDIO: Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy) the explosion of City Hall, (AUDIO: Herald of the Dawn) and the disappearance of four mayors in the last decade (AUDIO: One Rule, TV: Boom Town, AUDIO: Superiority Complex, Future Pain) on the actions of aliens, who've been ruling Cardiff for years.
• The leader of Red Doors has lost his memory. (AUDIO: Poker Face)
• The Cardiff Bay Intelligent Hotel and Spa is for aliens only. (AUDIO: Superiority Complex)
• Flight 405 radio broadcasts have cut in over Derek's weather forecasts. (AUDIO: Flight 405)
• Jeff and Niamh talk to Brent Hayden, runner of Tomorrow's Truth Media. He believes that the Sorvix occupation is all a cover up. (AUDIO: The Man Who Destroyed Torchwood)
• They mention ghost power stations out past the bay. (AUDIO: Eye of the Storm)
• A religious cult claimed that God had arrived in Cardiff. (AUDIO: Herald of the Dawn)
• Jeff and Niamh refer to a cult above a burger bar that feed people to ScrapeJane. (AUDIO: ScrapeJane)
• Jeff mentions his girlfriend is cooking Proper Grub sausages for their dinner. (AUDIO: The Green Life)

External links

• Official Cardiff Unknown - October 2018 page at bigfinish.com