Starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred with Philip Olivier
(Duration: 120' approx)
CAST:
Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Philip Olivier (Hex), Hugh Bonneville (Sir Sidney Herbert/Tzar Nicholas I), Jeany Spark (Florence Nightingale), John Paul Connolly (William Russell/Russian DungeonGuard), Alex Lowe (Brigadier-General Bartholomew ‘Barty’ Kitchen), Sean Brosnan (Sir Hamilton Seymour), John Albasiny (Lev Tolstoy/Preston) SYNOPSIS: October 1854: As the British Army charges into catastrophe in the Crimea, the Minister for War sends Miss Florence Nightingale to take charge of the field hospital at Scutari.
But there's already an angel of mercy working with the sounded at Scutari. A first-rate felow who's turned up out of the blue. Goes by the name of Schofield; Thomas Hector Schofield...
With the Doctor and Ace lost in the siege of Sebastopol, Hex has rediscovered his calling. But there's cannon to the left of him, cannon to the right of him - and a deranged spycatcher-in-chief on his case.
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| AUTHOR: | Paul Sutton | DIRECTOR:
| Ken Bentley |
SOUND DESIGN:
| Toby Hrycek-Robinson | MUSIC:
| Toby Hrycek-Robinson |
COVER ART:
| Alex Mallinson
| NUMBER OF DISCS:
| 2
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RECORDED DATE:
| 16th/17th January 2009 | RELEASE DATE:
| 30 June 2009
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PRODUCTION CODE:
| 7W/L | ISBN: | 978-1-84435-410-8 |
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CHRONOLOGICAL PLACEMENT:
This story takes place after the television adventure
Survival.