The Child was the sixth story of the seventh series in The Companion Chronicles audio range. It was produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Nigel Fairs and featured Leela.
Publisher's summary[]
"Tell me another story, Leela. Not the one about the walking doll or the creepy mechanical men. A new one. I want to hear a new one..."
Leela is dead but her soul lives on. She has been reborn as a young girl, Emily, whose "imaginary friend" tells her amazing tales about a great Wizard and the warrior who accompanies him on his adventures through time and space.
Emily prepares to tell her parents the story of a cold, grey world whose people are ruled over by a Glass Angel. The Wizard is her prisoner and only the warrior girl and her three peculiar friends can save him...
Plot[]
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Part two[]
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Cast[]
Crew[]
- Cover Art - Simon Holub
- Writer, Music, Sound Design & Director - Nigel Fairs
- Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
- Producer - David Richardson
- Script Editor - Jacqueline Rayner
Worldbuilding[]
- The Map of Life is the largest work of art in the universe, conceived by Ricardo Stempus. It spans an entire continent on it's planet.
- The Sevateem had no art but war music, with shouting and drums. They believe in a place between one life and the next where the dead walk lost without purpose.
- Leela is assisted in reaching the castle by an old woman who rubs her neck and says "good grief"; a black raven with blue eyes in a scruffy jacket, baggy trousers, and tall hat who says "oh my giddy aunt"; and a wise creature with a mane of white hair and a stick.
- The snow on the world is actually tiny fragments of glass.
- For days the Doctor is trapped by the glass woman performing calculations.
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Notes[]
- This is the first Companion Chronicle to feature Leela since The Time Vampire in May 2010.
- This story was told from Leela's perspective.
- This story was recorded on 16 July 2012 at Audio Sorcery, the same day as another Fourth Doctor and Leela story, The Evil One, was recorded.
Continuity[]
- Leela recalls the face of Xoanon carved into Mount Kremnon on her planet. (TV: The Face of Evil)
- The Doctor says the helmic regulator's been sticking. (TV: The Ark in Space)
- Leela refers to the Tesh and makes the sign of Xoanon. (TV: The Face of Evil)
- The Doctor explains to Leela that the meaning of life is in a snowdrop flower. (TV: The Time Monster)
- Emily refers to Leela's stories about the "walking doll" (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang) and the "creepy mechanical men". (TV: The Robots of Death)
- Emily says "the wizard" could defeat vampires. (AUDIO: White Ghosts)
- The wise creature tells the raven and old woman to stop dilly-dallying and cross the drawbridge. (TV: The Three Doctors)
External links[]
- Official The Child page at bigfinish.com
