Showing posts with label Audio Drama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Audio Drama. Show all posts

Audio Drama: The Dead Line

by Conor

Episode: 2009 Radio Special Three
Name: The Dead Line
Written by: Phil Ford
Running Time: 45 minutes
Broadcast Date: 3rd July 2009
Preceded by: Golden Age
Starring:
  • John Barrowman - Captain Jack Harkness
  • Eve Myles - Gwen Cooper
  • Gareth David-Lloyd - Ianto Jones
  • Kai Owen - Rhys Williams
  • Dona Croll - Stella
  • Eiry Thomas - Jan
  • Matthew Gravelle - Bob
  • Brendan Charleson - Tyler

Plot

When a Cardiff hospital is inundated with patients who have fallen into coma -like trances, Torchwood move in to investigate. The trances appear to have been triggered by phone calls, all received on retro phones and made from a number that hadn't been active for over 30 years. Determined to find out who has been calling the unfortunate victims, Jack rings the mysterious number, but the line is dead. But then it calls Jack back.

 

Audio Drama: Golden Age

by Conor

Episode: 2009 Radio Special Two
Name: Golden Age
Written by: James Goss
Running Time: 45 minutes
Broadcast Date: 2nd July 2009
Preceded by: Asylum
Followed by: The Dead Line
Starring:
  • John Barrowman - Captain Jack Harkness
  • Eve Myles - Gwen Cooper
  • Gareth David-Lloyd - Ianto Jones
  • Jasmine Hyde - The Duchess
  • Amerjit Dew - Mr Daz
  • Ravin J Ganatra - Mahajan
  • Richard Mitchley - Gissing

Plot

The Torchwood team are led to Delhi on the trail of a dangerous energy field. As the field grows, they witness the simultaneous disappearance of hundreds of people. Jack discovers that the field centres on an old colonial mansion, Torchwood India.

Shocked to find that Torchwood India is still going strong after he shut it down himself over 80 years ago, he is even more surprised to find that its members, including his old flame the Duchess, haven't aged a day.

 

Audio Drama: Asylum

by Conor

Episode: 2009 Radio Special One
Name: Asylum
Written by: Anita Sullivan
Running Time: 45 minutes
Broadcast Date: 1st July 2009
Preceded by: Lost Souls
Followed by: Golden Age
Starring:
  • John Barrowman - Captain Jack Harkness
  • Eve Myles - Gwen Cooper
  • Gareth David-Lloyd - Ianto Jones
  • Tom Price - PC Andy
  • Erin Richards - Freda
  • Matthew Gravelle - Security Guard
  • Sara McGaughey - Policewoman
  • Dick Bradnum - Dog Walker
  • Isabel Lewis - Girl
Plot
When PC Andy arrests a teenager for shoplifting, he thinks it is going to be a routine case. Then he sees the weapon she is carrying and decides to call in the Torchwood team. Under questioning from Gwen, the girl remembers her name but little else, and when she speaks it is in a strange mix of English and Scandinavian, but with a Cardiff accent. Then the girl's blood tests come through and the team is faced with a dilemma.

 

Audio Drama: Lost Souls

by Conor

Episode: 2008 Radio Special
Name: Lost Souls
Written by: Joseph Lidster
Running Time: 45 minutes
Broadcast Date: 10th September 2008
Followed by: Asylum
Starring:
  • John Barrowman – Captain Jack Harkness
  • Eve Myles – Gwen Cooper
  • Gareth David-Lloyd – Ianto Jones
  • Freema Agyeman – Martha Jones
  • Lucy Montgomery – Professor Johnson
  • Stephen Critchlow – Dr Harrington
  • Mark Meadows – Leon Foiret

Basic Plot

Torchwood go to Geneva where Martha Jones, ex-time traveller, is now working as a doctor for a UNIT task force at the world's biggest physics laboratory, CERN. Deep in an underground tunnel, a giant particle accelerator is about to be activated for the first time. But something strange is happening. Scientists are hearing voices and collapsing with a strange illness. Is something lurking in the underground tunnel? Do the dead ever really stay dead?