''The Harvest'' is a
Big Finish Productions
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audio drama
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based on the long-running British
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television series
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''
Doctor Who
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''. It introduces new companion
Hex. It was retroactively made the final part of a trilogy with ''
The Reaping
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'' and ''
The Gathering'', with all three sporting similar designs for their covers.
Plot
2021. Thomas Hector Schofield (or "Hex" as he prefers to be called) is a nurse at St Gart's Hospital, where things are getting a little strange. The new hire, an attractive girl who insists on being called "McShane", is asking too many questions, and unexplained deaths are happening. What exactly is the mysterious C-Programme… and why does McShane seem to be living in a police box in Totter's Lane?
Cast
*The
Doctor
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Personal titles
* Doctor (title), the holder of an accredited academic degree
* A medical practitioner, including:
** Physician
** Surgeon
** Dentist
** Veterinary physician
** Optometrist
*Other roles
** ...
—
Sylvester McCoy
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*
Ace
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Sophie Aldred
Sophie Aldred (born 20 August 1962) is an English actress and television presenter. She has worked extensively in children's television as a presenter and voice artist. She played the Seventh Doctor's companion, Ace, in the television series ''Do ...
*
Hex —
Philip Olivier
Philip Lawrence Borg-Olivier (born on 4 June 1980) is a British actor, model and stage performer best known for playing the role of Tim "Tinhead" O'Leary in the soap opera ''Brookside''.
Career
Olivier's first role was in 1995 in the Channe ...
*Subject One —
William Boyde
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*Doctor Stephen Farrer — Richard Derrington
*XSO David Garnier — David Warwick
*Doctor Mark Mathias — Paul Lacoux
*System — Janie Booth
*Polk —
Mark Donovan
Continuity
*The discovery that The Doctor makes about Hex while reading through the hospital files is revealed in ''
Thicker than Water''.
* The technology that is spirited away at the end of the linked story
The Gathering subsequently appears in this (chronologically earlier story). This includes System being voiced by the same actress.
*Hex finally returns to St Gart's a few years later in ''
Project: Destiny''.
External links
Big Finish Productions – ''The Harvest''
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2004 audio plays
Cybermen audio plays
Seventh Doctor audio plays
Works by Dan Abnett
Fiction set in 2021