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

to be added

Cast Edit

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

Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series

Audio stories

Series 1	Oh No It Isn't! • Beyond the Sun • Walking to Babylon • Birthright • Just War • Dragons' Wrath

Series 2	The Secret of Cassandra • The Stone's Lament • The Extinction Event • The Skymines of Karthos

Series 3	The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy • The Green-Eyed Monsters • The Plague Herds of Excelis • The Dance of the Dead • The Mirror Effect

Series 4	The Bellotron Incident • The Draconian Rage • The Poison Seas • Death and the Daleks

Series 5	The Grel Escape • The Bone of Contention • The Relics of Jegg-Sau • The Masquerade of Death

Series 6	The Heart's Desire • The Kingdom of the Blind • The Lost Museum • The Goddess Quandary • The Crystal of Cantus

Series 7	The Tartarus Gate • Timeless Passages • The Worst Thing in the World • Summer of Love • The Oracle of Delphi • The Empire State

Series 8	The Tub Full of Cats • The Judas Gift • Freedom of Information • The End of the World • The Final Amendment • The Wake

Series 9	Beyond the Sea • The Adolescence of Time • The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel • The Diet of Worms

Series 10	Glory Days • Absence • Venus Mantrap • Secret Origins

Series 11	Resurrecting the Past • Escaping the Future • Year Zero • Dead Man's Switch

Epoch	The Kraken's Lament • The Temple of Questions • Private Enemy No. 1 • Judgement Day

Road Trip	Brand Management • Bad Habits • Paradise Frost

Legion	Vesuvius Falling • Shades of Gray • Everybody Loves Irving

New Frontiers	A Handful of Dust • HMS Surprise • The Curse of Fenman

Missing Persons	Big Dig • The Revenant's Carnival • The Brimstone Kid • The Winning Side • In Living Memory

The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield	The Revolution • Good Night, Sweet Ladies • Random Ghosts • The Lights of Skaro

The Triumph of Sutekh	The Pyramid of Sutekh • The Vaults of Osiris • The Eye of Horus • The Tears of Isis

The Unbound Universe	The Library in the Body • Planet X • The Very Dark Thing • The Emporium At The End

Ruler of the Universe	The City and the Clock • Asking for a Friend • Truant • The True Saviour of the Universe

The Story So Far	Ever After Happy • The Grel Invasion of Earth • Braxiatel in Love • Every Dark Thought • Empress of the Drahvins • The Angel of History

Buried Memories	Pride of the Lampian • Clear History • Dead and Breakfast • Burrowed Time

Lost in Translation	Have I Told You Lately? • The Undying Truth • Inertia • Gallifrey

Special releases	Buried Treasures (Making Myths, Closure) • Silver Lining • Many Happy Returns • The Worlds of Big Finish • The Eighth of March: The Big Blue Book

Prose

Anthologies	The Dead Men Diaries • A Life of Surprises • Life During Wartime • A Life Worth Living • A Life in Pieces • Parallel Lives • Something Changed • Collected Works • Old Friends • Nobody's Children • Missing Adventures • The Vampire Curse • Secret Histories • Present Danger • True Stories • In Time

Novels	The Doomsday Manuscript • The Gods of the Underworld • The Squire's Crystal • The Infernal Nexus • The Glass Prison • The Big Hunt • The Tree of Life • Genius Loci • The Two Jasons • The Weather on Versimmon • The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis • Filthy Lucre • Adorable Illusion

Webcasts

Dead and Buried • Transmission from Mars

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