Home Truths (Doctor Who audio)
Encyclopedia
Home Truths is a Big Finish Productions
audiobook based on the long-running British
science fiction
television series Doctor Who
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The Companion Chronicles "talking books" are each narrated by one of the Doctor's companions and feature a second, guest-star voice along with music and sound effects.
, where she tells tales of her time with the Doctor
.
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...
audiobook based on the long-running British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
television series Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
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The Companion Chronicles "talking books" are each narrated by one of the Doctor's companions and feature a second, guest-star voice along with music and sound effects.
Plot
Sara Kingdom lives on, through a mysterious house in future ElyEly, Cambridgeshire
Ely is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, 14 miles north-northeast of Cambridge and about by road from London. It is built on a Lower Greensand island, which at a maximum elevation of is the highest land in the Fens...
, where she tells tales of her time with the Doctor
First Doctor
The First Doctor is the initial incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor William Hartnell from 1963 to 1966. Hartnell reprised the role in the tenth anniversary story The Three Doctors in 1973 - albeit in a...
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Continuity
- This play takes place between episodes 7 and 8 of The Daleks' Master PlanThe Daleks' Master PlanThe Daleks' Master Plan is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The twelve episodes were aired from 13 November 1965 to 29 January 1966...
, the only serial to feature Sara. It has been previously stated in the novelization that there was a gap of several months around this time in which she traveled with the Doctor and Steven. - Before this audio, the only instance of Sara being revisited was a short story entitled The Little Drummer Boy by Eddie RobsonEddie RobsonEddie Robson is a freelance author best known for his work on a variety of spin-offs from the BBC Television series Doctor Who in his book : Who's Next. He is also co-owner of and a regular reviewer on the Shiny Shelf website, as well as a freelance reviewer for various science fiction magazines...
from the Big Finish book Short Trips: CompanionsShort Trips: CompanionsShort Trips: Companions is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Jacqueline Rayner and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The stories focus on the companions and their travels with the Doctor.-Stories:...
. The boy on Mars that is mentioned in Home Truths is a direct reference to this short story. - Sara and Robert's story continues in The Drowned WorldThe Drowned World (Doctor Who audio)The Drowned World is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who....
. - The flashback stories occur in the opposite order of the framing stories.
- The old man caught in the workings of a giant clock that Sara mentions is explored in the last story of this trilogy, The Guardian of the Solar SystemThe Guardian of the Solar SystemThe Guardian of the Solar System is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who....
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