Nocturne (audio story)

was the ninety-second story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by Dan Abnett and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Sophie Aldred as Ace and Philip Olivier as Hex.
== Publisher's summary ==
On the human colony planet Nocturne, there is suffering and blight, tragic symptoms of an ages-old war. Nevertheless, Nocturne is also one of the Doctor's favourite places in all of time and space, because it is here that a late, great flowering of human art — the High Renaissance — is taking place.
He has been back here, many times. It is a place of music and art which he finds inspirational and uplifting. It is a place he wants to share with Ace and Hex. It's always been a safe haven for him, a world of friends and laughter.
But with strict Martial Law imposed on the front-line city, and the brutal scourge of interstellar warfare vicing the system, how safe can anyone really be?
There is a note of death in the wild, midnight wind...
== Plot ==
to be added
== Cast ==
* The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
* Ace - Sophie Aldred
* Hex - Philip Olivier
* Korbin Thessinger - Trevor Bannister
* Will Alloran/Lomas Alloran - Paul David-Gough
* Lothar Ragpole - Eric Potts
* Lilian Dillane - Ann Rye
* Oberst Cate Reeney / Familiars - Helen Kay
== Crew ==
* Cover Art - Alex Mallinson
* Director - John Ainsworth
* Executive Producers - Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
* Music and Sound Design - Steve Foxon
* Producers - Sharon Gosling and Gary Russell
* Script Editor - Alan Barnes
* Writer - Dan Abnett
== Worldbuilding ==
=== The Doctor ===
* Ace and Hex remind the Doctor of several previous occasions that he brought them to places under false pretences including Breearos, Tau Sartos and Nydas III.
* Lilian Dillane comments that it is quite a novelty for the Doctor not to have regenerated between visits to Nocturne.
* During a visit to Glasst City five years earlier, the Doctor became embroiled in a cover-up over an attempted Foucoo assassination of the executives of the War Department.
* During his fifth incarnation, the Doctor visited Nocturne in the company of Tegan Jovanka. He remembers it as being a "particularly lively visit."
=== Individuals ===
* While he was in secondary school, Hex went on a school trip to Venice. He thought that everything was wet and smelled like rubbish.
=== Planets ===
* Nocturne is located between the systems of Tau Ceti and Zeta Reticuli. It is 3 parsecs from Earth.
=== History ===
* In later centuries, Nocturne will be regarded as the greatest concentration of artists including painters, sculptors, poets, writers and composers since the Florentine Renaissance.
=== Technology ===
* The people of Nocturne are serviced by robots known as Familiars, all of whom are female.
== Gallery ==
Nocturne cover.jpg|Original cover art
Nocturne comic preview.jpg|Illustrated by Martin Geraghty from DWM 379
== Notes ==
* A preview illustrated by Martin Geraghty was featured in DWM 379.
* This audio drama was recorded on 26 and 27 September 2006 at the Moat Studios.
* The Doctor says that the era "you" come from is about 790 years ago, however it is unclear whether he is referring to Ace's time (1987) or Hex's time (2021).
* This is the last Big Finish release to feature the original cover design.
* This story was originally released on CD and download. It is now available as a download only.
* This story is set after Survival.
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor mentions that he has previously had numerous bad experiences with robots. (TV: Robot, The Robots of Death)
* "Glasst City" appears to be named for Gregori Glasst, the great classical music composer mentioned in PROSE: Deadfall, Invasion of the Cat-People, and Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe. Glasst originated in the Audio Visuals.
== External links ==
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Category:Stories set in 2797
Category:Audio stories set in Mutter's Spiral
Category:Audio stories that use the Keff McCulloch theme
Category:Seventh Doctor Main Range audio stories
Category:2007 Main Range audio stories