The Angel of Scutari explained

The Angel of Scutari
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Series:	Doctor Who
Number:	122
Featuring:	Seventh Doctor Ace Hex
Cover:	Angel of Scutari.png
Director:	Ken Bentley
Production Code:	7W/L
Date:	June 2009

The Angel of Scutari is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Plot

In the Crimea, 1854, Hex meets his hero, Florence Nightingale.

Cast

Seventh Doctor – Sylvester McCoy
Ace – Sophie Aldred
Hex – Philip Olivier
Sir Sidney Herbert / Tzar Nicholas I – Hugh Bonneville
Florence Nightingale – Jeany Spark
William Russell / Russian DungeonGuard – John Paul Connolly
Brigadier-General Bartholomew ‘Barty’ Kitchen – Alex Lowe
Sir Hamilton Seymour – Sean Brosnan
Lev Tolstoy / Preston – John Albasiny

The Three Companions

The Three Companions bonus feature, Part 3.

The Gathernaut by Marc Platt

Cast

Polly – Anneke Wills
Thomas Brewster – John Pickard
Gerry Lenz/Announcer – Russell Floyd

Continuity

During this story, the exterior of the TARDIS is rendered white when a cannonball shatters its corporeal shell. It remains white for the next several stories, finally returning to blue in Black and White.
The spare TARDIS key hidden behind the "Police Box" P was first revealed in the 1996 TV movie.

Cast notes

Hugh Bonneville would later play Captain Avery in the Eleventh Doctor episode "The Curse of the Black Spot".^[1]

Notes

In the Whovian timeline, this story takes place between Enemy of the Daleks and Project: Destiny

Critical reception

Doctor Who Magazine reviewer Matt Michael criticised the underuse of both Tolstoy and Nightingale, but found that "its charms outweigh its flaws".^[2]

External links

Big Finish Productions – The Angel of Scutari

Notes and References

News: The Steven Moffat Doctor Who preview . . 12 April 2011 . 12 April 2011.
Michael. Matt. 9 August 2009. The DWM Review: The Angel of Scutari. Doctor Who Magazine. Panini Comics. Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. 411. 64.