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Doctor Who: The Stones Of Venice (#18)
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The Doctor and Charley decide to take a well-deserved break from the
monotony of being chased, shot at and generally suffering anti-social
behaviour at the hands of others. And so they end up in Venice, well into
Charely's future, as the great city prepares to sink beneath the water
for the last time...
Which would be a momentous, if rather dispiriting, event to witness in
itself. However, the machinations of a love-sick aristocrat, a proud art
historian and a rabid High Priest of a really quite dodgy cult combine
to make Venice's swansong a night to remember. And then there's the
rebellion by the web-footed amphibious underclass, the mystery of a
disappearing corpse and the truth behind a curse going back further than
curses usually do. The Doctor and Charley are forced to wonder just what
they have got themselves involved with this time...
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Episode One:
Churchwell and the Doctor are confronted by the Cultists, who render them
unconscious. It will be their honour to bear witness to the resurrection
of Lady Estella...
Episode Two:
The boat containing the Doctor is attacked. Soon it's realised that the
attackers are the Gondoliers. They've gone mad and will drag them all
down into the depths of Venice's canals...
Episode Three:
Duke Orsino is called forward to view the opening of the Golden casket
said to contain Lady Esella, but it's found to be empty. The clock
strikes and Charley realises it's dawn. The Doctor tells her that it
strikes out the death of Venice...
Episode Four:
Charley tells the Doctor that it was all about love. A love affair that
laid waste to a whole city, and she hopes the Doctor wouldn't abandon her.
The Doctor tells her that he'd never abandon her or loose her in a game of
cards. She's his best friend...
The Doctor: 'There's nothing I like more than putting the kibosh on a really vile regime.'
The Doctor: 'There's a party going on out there. A last desperate carnival, one really fantastic apocalyptic knees up! Would you consider missing that for all the world?'
Orsino: 'I never had any stomach for art!'
The Doctor: 'Here we are at the very end of Venice, we're being hunted through the night, we're in a tunnel. There are secrets here somewhere, danger...' Churchwell: 'You do this kind of thing a lot don't you?'
Charley: 'I show a smidgen of interest in the plight of the underclass and what do I get in return? Held at knifepoint, dressed up in - admittedly fabulous but impractical - frock, then I end up being forced to marry some ancient madman as the city collapses around us! This isn't what I would call a fantastic night out!'
The Doctor: 'I do think there's always a way to put things right. If I didn't believe that I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning, I wouldn't eat breakfast; I wouldn't leave the TARDIS ever. I would never have left home. There is always something we can do.'
The Stones Of Venice is the debut audio story of Doctor Who
novelist Paul Magrs, and features veteran
character actor Michael Sheard as Count
Orsino. Elaine Ives-Cameron previously
appeared in the Doctor Who television story The Stones Of
Blood.
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