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

Contents

• Plot
• Cast
• Continuity
• Notes
• References
• External links

Plot

The Doctor returns to the fallen Drashani Empire, just as The Wrath look to conquer the Earth Empire. But he finds his own past coming back to haunt him in the worst possible way, as the galaxy's greatest bounty hunter is assigned with the task of hunting him down.

Cast

• The Doctor – Sylvester McCoy
• Vienna Salvatori – Chase Masterson
• Talbar – Eve Karpf
• Talbar – Alex Mallinson
• Captain Webster / Starbaff / Wrath Emperor – John Banks
• Lt Dervish – Jaimi Barbakoff
• Prince Kylo – James Wilby
• Princess Aliona – Kirsty Besterman

Continuity

• This is the last in a trilogy of stories, following the Fifth Doctor in The Burning Prince and the Sixth Doctor in The Acheron Pulse .
• Five decades have passed since the Doctor's last visit.
• A month before this story's release, Big Finish announced that Chase Masterson's character was being given her own series called Vienna. ^[1]

Notes

• In the Whovian timeline, this story is set between The Architects of History and UNIT Dominion .

References

External links

• The Shadow Heart