The Whispering Forest

The Whispering Forest
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who
Release no.	137
Featuring	Fifth Doctor Nyssa Tegan Jovanka Vislor Turlough
Written by	Stephen Cole
Directed by	Barnaby Edwards
Executive producer(s)	Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery
Production code	6HB
Release date	August 2010

The Whispering Forest is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Plot

On the alien world of Purity, the weakest are spirited away by the mysterious Takers.

Cast

The Doctor - Peter Davison
Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding
Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
Vislor Turlough - Mark Strickson
Seksa - Hayley Atwell
Mertil/Woman - Sue Wallace
Jestan/Man/Taker - Paul Shelley
Hervey/Taker/Demi-Taker - Harry Melling
Anulf/Taker - Lennox Greaves
Antan/Taker - Aneurin Barnard

Continuity

A green crescent representing the universal symbol for hospitals was established in the 2006 TV story New Earth.
The re-emergence of the Mara at the end leads directly into The Cradle of the Snake.
The Mara asks if the Doctor is leaving because Purity is "too green" for him, referring to a line he had in Kinda.

Cast notes

Paul Shelley previously appeared in the Fifth Doctor TV story Four to Doomsday with Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Sarah Sutton.
Hayley Atwell was heard in the Eighth Doctor audio story Blood of the Daleks.
Harry Melling is the grandson of Second Doctor actor Patrick Troughton.
Lennox Greaves and Sue Wallace were both previously heard in The Chimes of Midnight.

External links

Fifth Doctor audio dramas

Tegan, Nyssa & Adric	The Darkening Eye Destiny of the Doctor: Smoke and Mirrors Psychodrome Iterations of I

Nyssa	The Land of the Dead Winter for the Adept The Mutant Phase Primeval Spare Parts Creatures of Beauty The Game Circular Time Renaissance of the Daleks Plague of the Daleks The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories The Five Companions 1001 Nights The Light at the End Moonflesh

Nyssa & Brewster	The Haunting of Thomas Brewster The Boy That Time Forgot Time Reef A Perfect World

Nyssa & Tegan	The Elite Hexagora The Children of Seth

Nyssa, Tegan & Turlough	Cobwebs The Whispering Forest The Cradle of the Snake Heroes of Sontar Kiss of Death Rat Trap The Emerald Tiger The Jupiter Conjunction The Butcher of Brisbane The Entropy Plague

Tegan & Turlough	The Sirens of Time Excelis Dawns Ringpullworld Freakshow

Turlough	Phantasmagoria Loups-Garoux Singularity

Peri	Red Dawn Exotron & Urban Myths Peri and the Piscon Paradox

Peri & Erimem	The Eye of the Scorpion The Church and the Crown No Place Like Home Nekromanteia The Axis of Insanity The Roof of the World Three's a Crowd The Council of Nicaea The Kingmaker Son of the Dragon The Mind's Eye & Mission of the Viyrans The Bride of Peladon

Amy	The Judgement of Isskar The Destroyer of Delights The Chaos Pool

Other	Zagreus Omega The Gathering Cuddlesome The Four Doctors The Burning Prince

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