Patience (audio story)

Patience
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Liv, Helen, Tania, Andy
Main enemy:	Kon Po, Go Tol
Main setting:	Flask, Delivia / The Doctor's TARDIS
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Tim Foley
Director:	Ken Bentley
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Jamie Robertson
Sound:	Benji Clifford
Release details
Number of episodes:	1
Release number:	3.1
Part of:	Stranded 3
Release date:	2 December 2021
Format:	1 CD Download 1st of 4 stories
Production code:	BFPDWCDMG050
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-83868-169-2 (physical) ISBN 978-1-83868-170-8 (digital)Property "Isbn" (as page type) with input value "ISBN 978-1-83868-169-2 (physical)ISBN 978-1-83868-170-8 (digital)" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.
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Patience was the first story in the audio anthology Stranded 3, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Tim Foley and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Nicola Walker as Liv Chenka, Hattie Morahan as Helen Sinclair, Rebecca Root as Tania Bell and Tom Price as Andy Davidson.

Publisher's summary

The Doctor decides to investigate the limits of the paradoxical timeline in which he and his friends are stranded.

But they find themselves hunted by a force of mercenary Judoon. It seems that Earth’s altered history has changed the whole universe…

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Liv Chenka - Nicola Walker
• Helen Sinclair - Hattie Morahan
• Tania Bell - Rebecca Root
• Sergeant Andy Davidson - Tom Price
• Kon Po / Go Tol - Nicholas Briggs
• Baby Judoon - Sam Stafford

References

• According to Tania, Helen claimed the previous week to have gone skinny dipping with Shirley Bassey. She know refers to having met Galileo.
• Kon Po and the Doctor are trapped in a time loop, living out the Eternal Present.
• Liv's grandmother was Natalav, who was "mad as a sand worm".
• The Doctor originally received the Paradoxica from Patience.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• Liv recalls spending a year away from the TARDIS. (AUDIO: Escape from Kaldor)
• Helen recalls having met Galileo Galilei. (AUDIO: The Galileo Trap / The Satanic Mill)
• The Doctor is once again a fugitive being pursued by the Judoon. (TV: Fugitive of the Judoon)
• The Judoon are working for Mr Bird. (AUDIO: Must-See TV)
• While seeing his past memories Andy asks Liv not to look at any with "a woman called Yvonne Hartman." (AUDIO: Tagged, et al.)
• The Doctor tells a story about the Gallifreyan Lady Patience (AUDIO: Cold Fusion, et al.) on the slopes of Mount Perdition. (TV: The End of Time)
• Tania and Andy discover the TARDIS boot cupboard. (TV: The Masque of Mandragora)
• The Doctor brings Kon Po to Judoonia. (AUDIO: Judoon in Chains)

External links

• Official Patience page at bigfinish.com