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Professor Bernice Summerfield: Oh No It Isn't! (#1.01)
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By Paul Cornell - Adapted by Jacqueline Rayner
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Professor Bernice Summerfield: 26th century archaeology professor,
and tutor at St Oscar's University on the planet Dellah. Prone to getting
involved in adventures, scrapes and general derring-do armed only with
her wits, cunning and a flask of brandy! Aged about 35ish, but frequently
says she's younger. Odd that...
Wolsey: Bernice's pet tabby cat. Her constant companion, shoulder
to cry on and convenient excuse, as in: 'Oh sorry. I need to be somewhere
else because a certain someone requires feeding.' Has not possessed the
ability to speak English before. But then again, he's never grown taller
than fourteen inches before.
Pantomime: A theatrical humourous event, usually based about myths
and fairy tales. Its origins lie in British harlequinades, although the
word derives from the Roman pantomimus, where one actor mimed several
different historically-based characters. More familiarly associated with
children's Christmas entertainment of the late twentieth and early
twenty-first centuries.
The Grel: Seekers of information. Somewhat literal in their
thinking and lacking much imagination they do, however, usually get
what they want.
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This was Big Finish's first Doctor Who related production and
was based upon the first Bernice Summerfield novel, Oh No It
Isn't! by Paul Cornell, in Virgin Publishing's New
Adventures series after they lost the rights to publish Doctor
Who novels, originally published in 1997.
Featured in the cast as Bernice's cat, Wolsey, is none other than
Nicholas Courtney, who is famous
for playing Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart in Doctor Who.
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