Death in the New Forest was the second audio story in the anthology Tales from New Earth.
Publisher's summary[]
On his first mission for Senator Hame, Devon crosses continents to arrive in the New Forest and meet its people.
Trees are dying of unnatural causes. Sapling Vale, a cutting of the noble Jabe of the Forest of Cheem, will help Devon investigate the threat to her people.
So too will an alien, an old friend of New Earth... a time traveller known as the Doctor!
Plot[]
to be added
Cast[]
- Sapling Vale - Yasmin Bannerman
- Devon Pryce - Kieran Hodgson
- Lumen - Dan Blaskey
- Termiton Jusk - Matt Wilkinson
- Xylem Maple Dorm - Derek Griffiths
- Termiton Uden/Flight Attendant - Pippa Nixon
Uncredited cast[]
- Tenth Doctor - Kieran Hodgson[1]
Crew[]
- Director - Helen Goldwyn
- Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
- Music and Sound Design - Wilfredo Acosta
- Producer - David Richardson
- Script Editor - Matt Fitton and Roy Gill
- Writer - Roland Moore
Worldbuilding[]
- The Doctor mentions Ken Dodd, saying that he was a comedian from the north of England.
- The Doctor claims that his last incarnation was literally "all ears".
Notes[]
- The story references Ken Dodd, who died five days after its release. He had appeared in the Seventh Doctor serial Delta and the Bannermen.
Continuity[]
- Devon visits the New Forest to pay respects for the death of Thorn. (AUDIO: Escape from New New York)
- The Doctor has come to pay a debt for Jabe of the Forest of Cheem. (TV: The End of the World)
- The Doctor laments "there should've been another way". (TV: Warriors of the Deep)
External links[]
- Official Death in the New Forest page at bigfinish.com