Doctor Who - Audio Details

All aboard, me hearties, for a rip-roaring tale of adventure on the high seas!

There'll be rum for all and sea shanties galore as we travel back in time to join the valiant crew of the good ship Sea Eagle, braving perils, pirates and a peripatetic old sea-dog known only as the Doctor!

Gasp as our Gallifreyan buccaneer crosses swords with the fearsome Red Jasper, scourge of the seven seas and possessor of at least one wooden leg! Thrill as Evil Evelyn the Pirate Queen sets sail in search of buried treasure, with only a foppish ship's captain and an innocent young cabin boy by her side! Marvel at the melodious mayhem which ensues as we sail the ocean blue!

And wonder why Evelyn still hasn't realised that very few stories have happy endings…

Full title of this Audio Adventure is 'Doctor Who and the Pirates or The Lass that Lost a Sailor".

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I FIRST SUGGESTED A PIRATE story to producer Gary Russell back when Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield audio range began, but on being asked for details could only mutter 'yo ho ho', a Gary wisely ignored me.  Many years passed , and Gary decided he wanted a pirate story for Doctor Who, so I jumped up and down a lot until he let me write it.  At the beginning, it was a fairly straightforward yarn of the high seas.  Now - well, perhaps not quite so straightforward .  But I hope your timbers are still duly shivered.  Although I'm afraid you'll have to bring your own rum.

For part of this play, I've hijacked the work of others infinitely more talented than myself.  I hope no Gilbert and Sullivan devotees are disturbed by this appropriation:  I'd like to assure them that it comes from a great affection and high regard and no disrespect is intended.

Jacqueline Rayner, February 2003