''The Wake'' is a Big Finish Productions

audio drama Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine ...

featuring Lisa Bowerman as

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 Wh ...

, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British

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series '' Doctor Who''.

Plot

Benny looks back on her life, following the devastating events of '' The End of the World''

Cast

- Lisa Bowerman *Bodie - Rex Duis * Peter Summerfield - Thomas Grant * Adrian Wall -

Harry Myers Harry C. Myers (September 5, 1882 – December 25, 1938) was an American film actor and director, sometimes credited as Henry Myers. He performed in many short comedy films with his wife Rosemary Theby. Myers appeared in 330 films between 1908 ...

* Braxiatel -

Miles Richardson Miles Richardson (born 15 July 1963) is a British actor, born in Battersea, London to parents Ian Richardson (the well-known Shakespearean actor) and Maroussia Frank (daughter of dancer and critic Elizabeth Frank), both founder members of th ...

* Doggles - Sam Stevens *

Joseph Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...

- Steven Wickham *

Hass Hass may refer to: * Hass (Ottoman) * Hass (surname) * Hass (town), a town in Syria * Hass avocado, a type of avocado named after its cultivator, Rudolph Hass * Hass Petroleum, an investment company * Humanities, arts, and social sciences * Home ...

- Paul Wolfe

Trivia

This audio dramatises a number of important scenes from Bernice and Braxiatel's relationship going back to the

Virgin New Adventures The ''Virgin New Adventures'' (NA series, or NAs) are a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. They continued the story of the Doctor from the point at which the televisio ...

novels; their first meeting in ''

Theatre of War In warfare, a theater or theatre is an area in which important military events occur or are in progress. A theater can include the entirety of the airspace, land and sea area that is or that may potentially become involved in war operations. T ...

'', their conversation at Bernice and Jason's wedding in '' Happy Endings'' and the final scene of '' Tears of the Oracle''.

External links

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