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The Child (audio story)

The Child was the sixth story of the seventh series in The Companion Chronicles audio range. It was produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Nigel Fairs and featured Leela.

Publisher's summary[]

"Tell me another story, Leela. Not the one about the walking doll or the creepy mechanical men. A new one. I want to hear a new one..."

Leela is dead but her soul lives on. She has been reborn as a young girl, Emily, whose "imaginary friend" tells her amazing tales about a great Wizard and the warrior who accompanies him on his adventures through time and space.

Emily prepares to tell her parents the story of a cold, grey world whose people are ruled over by a Glass Angel. The Wizard is her prisoner and only the warrior girl and her three peculiar friends can save him...

Plot[]

Part one[]

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Part two[]

to be added

Cast[]

Leela - Louise Jameson
Emily - Anna Hawkes

Crew[]

Cover Art - Simon Holub
Writer, Music, Sound Design & Director - Nigel Fairs
Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
Producer - David Richardson
Script Editor - Jacqueline Rayner

Worldbuilding[]

The Map of Life is the largest work of art in the universe. It spans an entire continent.

Notes[]

This is the first Companion Chronicle to feature Leela since The Time Vampire in May 2010.
This story was told from Leela's perspective.
This story was recorded on 16 July 2012 at Audio Sorcery, the same day as another Fourth Doctor and Leela story, The Evil One, was recorded.

Continuity[]

Leela recalls the face of Xoanon carved into Mount Kremnon on her planet. (TV: The Face of Evil)
The Doctor refers to the helmic regulator. (TV: The Ark in Space)
Leela refers to the Tesh. (TV: The Face of Evil)
Emily refers to Leela's stories about the "walking doll" (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang) and the "creepy mechanical men". (TV: The Robots of Death)

External links[]

Official The Child page at bigfinish.com

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The Companion Chronicles

First Doctor

Susan	Quinnis • The Alchemists • The Beginning • The Sleeping Blood

Susan, Ian, Barbara	Here There Be Monsters • The Transit of Venus • The Wanderer • The Flames of Cadiz • The Library of Alexandria • E is for...

Ian, Barbara	The Revenants

Ian, Barbara, Vicki	The Rocket Men • The Sleeping City • Starborn • The Unwinding World • Daybreak

Vicki, Steven	Frostfire • The Suffering • Upstairs • The Founding Fathers • Fields of Terror • Across the Darkened City

Steven, Sara	Home Truths • The Drowned World • The Guardian of the Solar System • The Anachronauts

Steven, Oliver	The Perpetual Bond • The Cold Equations • The First Wave

Steven	The Locked Room • The Vardan Invasion of Mirth

Steven, Dodo	Mother Russia • Tales from the Vault • Return of the Rocket Men • The War To End All Wars

Ben, Polly	The Bonfires of the Vanities • The Plague of Dreams • The Crumbling Magician

Second Doctor

Ben, Polly	The Curator's Egg

Ben, Polly, Jamie	Resistance • The Forbidden Time • The Selachian Gambit • House of Cards • The Mouthless Dead

Jamie, Victoria	The Great Space Elevator • The Emperor of Eternity • The Story of Extinction • Dumb Waiter

Jamie	Helicon Prime • The Death of the Daleks • The Phantom Piper

Jamie, Zoe	Fear of the Daleks • The Glorious Revolution • Echoes of Grey • Tales from the Vault • The Memory Cheats • The Jigsaw War • The Uncertainty Principle • The Apocalypse Mirror • The Dying Light • Second Chances • The Integral • The Edge • The Iron Maid • The Tactics of Defeat • The Prints of Denmark • The Deepest Tragedian

Third Doctor

Liz	The Blue Tooth • Shadow of the Past • The Sentinels of the New Dawn • Binary • The Last Post

The Brigadier	Old Soldiers

Jo	The Doll of Death • The Mists of Time • Find and Replace • Tales from the Vault • The Many Deaths of Jo Grant • The Scorchies • Ghost in the Machine

Yates	The Magician's Oath • The Rings of Ikiria

Benton	Council of War

Solo travels	The Prisoner of Peladon

Fourth Doctor

Leela	The Catalyst • Empathy Games • The Child

Leela, K9 Mark I	The Time Vampire

Romana I	The Stealers from Saiph • Ferril's Folly • Tales from the Vault • Luna Romana

Romana II	The Pyralis Effect • Luna Romana

Romana II, K9 Mark II	The Beautiful People

Romana II, Adric	The Invasion of E-Space

Fifth Doctor

Adric, Nyssa, Tegan	The Darkening Eye

Tegan, Turlough	Ringpullworld • Freakshow

Peri	Peri and the Piscon Paradox

Sixth Doctor

Peri	Peri and the Piscon Paradox

Evelyn	A Town Called Fortune

"Jamie"	Night's Black Agents

Jason, Crystal	Beyond the Ultimate Adventure

Seventh Doctor

Ace, Zara	The Prisoner's Dilemma

Bernice	Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code

Sally, Lysandra	Project: Nirvana

Eighth Doctor

Charley	Solitaire

Iris Wildthyme, Jo Grant	The Elixir of Doom

Other adventures

Jago and Litefoot	The Mahogany Murderers

Polly, the Brigadier, Brewster	The Three Companions

Ian	The Time Museum

The Master	Mastermind