''The Heart's Desire'' is a

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audio drama featuring

Lisa Bowerman Lisa Bowerman (born 1 February 1962) is a British actress. She is best known for portraying Sandra Mute, the paramedic, in the BBC One medical drama ''Casualty'', in the first two series (1986–1987). She also starred as Professor Bernice Summe ...

Bernice Summerfield Bernice Surprise Summerfield (later Professor Bernice Summerfield or just Benny) is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length ''Doctor Who ...

, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''

Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...

''.

Plot

Bernice visits Marlowe's World to try and stop a

pulsar A pulsar (from ''pulsating radio source'') is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles. This radiation can be observed only when a beam of emission is pointing toward Ea ...

that threatens to destroy the Braxiatel Collection. There she meets some ancient beings who can grant her every wish.

Cast

*Topsy Turve -

Lucy Beresford Lucy Beresford is an English broadcaster, presenter, novelist, and psychotherapist. Biography Beresford has an M.A. in Psychotherapy awarded by the City University, London, and an Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy, having studied fo ...

*Hardy - Conrad Westmaas *Barron - Steven Bugdale

Trivia

This story features the Eternals from the Doctor Who adventure ''

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''.

External links

Big Finish Productions - ''Professor Bernice Summerfield: The Heart's Desire''
Bernice Summerfield audio plays Fiction set in the 27th century {{DoctorWho-stub