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Professor Bernice Summerfield: The Grel Escape (#5.01)
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Young children can be difficult. Tantrums, toy-throwing, not wanting to
go to bed, whisking their mothers on dangerous journeys throughout all
of time and space.
Jason wants Benny's son Peter to have a normal childhood. Peter has other
plans. And unfortunately, Peter also has Benny and Jason's Time Rings.
And knows how to use them. Even more unfortunately, the fact-obsessed,
tentacle-faced Grel have built a time machine, and they're after Peter.
So Benny finds herself on the run, landing in frightening festivals and
deadly deserts, facing ridiculously inaccurate robot doubles and
hideously accented tourists, in what can only be described as a sort of
chase...
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Jason: "I just think it's important to have something normal, you
know, after everything that's happened."
Benny: "Peter, we don't play with Auntie's facial tentacles do we?"
The Grel: "Excellent fact! Our time machine is now complete.
Additional fact: we shall now use it to find facts! For the glory of the
Grel!"
Sophia: "Proud fact: my people will master time travel. Sad and
ashamed fact: they will use it to steal Peter."
Benny: "You think letting him play with the Time Rings was
responsible behaviour?"
Jason: "Up yours, squid for brains! Sorry Sophia." Sophia:
"I am unsure as to whether an apology is necessary. If it is necessary I
am unsure as to whether I should accept it. If your stated fact is that
the pursuing Grel have brains which resemble terrene originating
cephalopod molluscs, then I have no current data to substantiate this,
but cannot be offended by the hypothesis and you should feel no desire to
excuse yourself to me. If however, as your need to apologise implies, you
are stating that all Grel, irrespective of their behaviour towards you,
are mentally deficient because in appearance they have a facial
resemblance to a terrene originating cephalopod mollusc, then I am
unhappy with your conclusion and feel our friendship may be irreversibly
damaged."
Benny: "I don't mean to be flippant, but could we save the ethics
discussion till later, please?"
Benny: "What a good boy to bring Mummy to an important
archaeological site!"
Benny: "Oh dear, once you start agreeing with my Jason Kane I know
there's something to worry about."
Sophia: "Fact: Grel are very persistent in the pursuit of facts."
Jason: "This is either my worst nightmare, or my best ever dream."
Jason: "It seems your infant son wanted to hang out with a load of
Victorian schoolgirls as well, which is on the one hand quite worrying,
but on the other hints at future good taste."
The Grel: "Very bad fact: There is a high probability you may have
killed me."
This is Jacqueline Rayner's
first Benny audio, although she adapted five of the first six audio
releases and wrote two original Benny novels - including the acclaimed
The Glass Prison. The story features the return of the Grel from
Oh No It Isn't!.
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> The Grel Escape
