I Am The Master (audio story)

I Am The Master
Main character(s):	The Master
Featuring:	Fourth Doctor
Main setting:	A sound studio, Glox
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Geoffrey Beevers
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Producer:	Ian Atkins
Music:	David Roocroft
Sound:	David Roocroft
Read by:	Geoffrey Beevers
Cover by:	Anthony Lamb
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	8.10
Release date:	27 October 2018
Format:	MP3 Download
Production code:	BFMSTDL46
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78703-003-9
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You may be looking for I Am The Master: Legends of the Renegade Time Lord.

I Am The Master was the tenth story of the eighth season of Big Finish Productions' Short Trips series.

Publisher's summary

There is a message for you. It comes from a long way, from a dying world. No, not a dying world. A killed world. And the message is from the killer.

Please attend carefully. The message that follows is vital to your future...

However much longer that may be.

Plot

to be added

Characters

• The Master
• Fourth Doctor

References

Locations

• The Master once flattened Rome.
• Glox is a pink planet with a large diversity of life.
• In the Gloxian recording studio where the Master arrives, he decides to disguise his TARDIS as a recording booth.
• The Master heads to Gloxford Campus.

Species

• The Master mentions the Cloud Hangers of Galaxy 357, the Luminescence Sea Squids of Nebula 9 and the Light-Seeking Seed Pod Intelligence of Interplanetary Travel.
• The Master mentions having a conversation with a Krynoid.

Individuals

• The Master mentions his mother and father back on Gallifrey.
• The Master mentions disliking David Attenborough, and how he would like Glox.

Notes

• In the style of The Companion Chronicles, this story is told from the Master's perspective.
• Big Finish's Backstage description states that I Am The Master takes place after TV: The Keeper of Traken.
• The Big Finish ident announced by Nicholas Briggs ("You're listening to a Big Finish production") becomes distorted as the Master takes control of the transmission to contact the listener.
• While bragging about being the most intelligent creature the universe has ever produced, the Master tells the listener to not dare think of any other, remarking that, "his reputation is altogether overrated... as hers will be, in a future time you haven't yet seen", referring to the Thirteenth Doctor, whose first full-length story had aired twenty days prior to this story's release.
• This story was recorded on 20 October 2017 at The Moat Studios.
• This story was initially available as a download only, until it was re-released as part of the Masterful box set in 2021 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Master.

Continuity

• The Master recalls stealing multiple bodies. (TV: The Keeper of Traken, Doctor Who; PROSE: Forgotten; AUDIO: Mastermind)
• The Master muses about the possibility of a galaxy reserved for multiplying clones of himself, before having a feeling that he will already try that at some point. (TV: The End of Time)

External links

• Official I Am The Master page at bigfinish.com