The Worst Thing in the World (audio story)

The Worst Thing in the World was the thirty-first Bernice Summerfield audio story released by Big Finish Productions. It was the third story of the seventh season.

Publisher's summary Edit

The Drome was set up with the best - or at least the most blatantly venal - of intentions. A self-contained planetoid-community, wired with microcams, designed to pump out product to the GalNet media-stream twenty-six hours a Galactic Standard Day.

But now the Medium is rotting minds and turning them to murder. The machine is turning out brain-dead zombies, setting them to stumble through the twists and turns of some inhuman and unguessable plan - and Professor Bernice Summerfield, and her ex-husband Jason, are caught in the middle of it!

Now Benny finds herself in a desperate fight for her life. A fight so desperate that she will be forced to do something she has never done before, a horror that she never imagined she could bring herself to commit. The worst thing in the world.

Plot Edit

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Cast Edit

• Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
• Jason Kane - Stephen Fewell
• Marvin Glass - Bernard Holley
• Hannah Glass - Jane Milligan
• Jane Peters - Jenny Livsey
• Zombettes - Sean Connolly, Simon Guerrier, Joseph Lidster, Edward Salt

References Edit

• Benny uses a dictaphone.
• Reference is made to the Galactic Transit Core, bubble-chip technology, the Infinity Division, transputonics, transputers, temporal reality and sector security.
• The "singularity" is essentially "god-grade A.I." Marvin becomes the "god box," an A.I. with a god complex.
• Cabin fever feeds on itself, and usually takes an outsider to see it.
• Benny's favourite colour is turquoise.

Notes Edit

• Benny (Lisa Bowerman) sings to bring the story — that she's stuck in — to a happy conclusion. The full version of the song "Happy Place," composed by Caroline Hrycek-Robinson, is on track 25 of the CD.
• This audio drama was recorded on 17 and 31 July 2006.

Continuity Edit

• Benny has previously sung as part of the story. (AUDIO: Oh No It Isn't!)

External links Edit

• Official The Worst Thing in the World page at bigfinish.com
• Script of The Worst Thing in the World at Pseudopod Enterprises.
• The Worst Thing in the World at the Doctor Who Reference Guide