The Book of Kells is an audio drama based on the long-running British

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 science fiction television

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 series Doctor Who

Doctor Who

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. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions

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.

Plot

At the Abbey of Kells

Abbey of Kells

The Abbey of Kells is a former monastery located in Kells, County Meath, Ireland, 40 miles north of Dublin. It was founded in the early ninth century, and the Book of Kells was kept there during the later medieval and early modern periods before finally leaving the Abbey in the 1650s...

 in Ireland

Ireland

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 in the year 1006, the Doctor finds the famous Book of Kells

Book of Kells

The Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin, containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables. It was created by Celtic monks ca. 800 or slightly earlier...

 in the hands of mysterious monks.

Cast

• The Doctor
  Doctor (Doctor Who)
  The Doctor is the central character in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, and has also featured in two cinema feature films, a vast range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips connected to the series....
  
   - Paul McGann
  Paul McGann
  Paul McGann is an English actor who made his name on the BBC serial The Monocled Mutineer, in which he played the lead role...
  
  
• Tamsin Drew - Niky Wardley
  Niky Wardley
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• Abbot Thelonious
  Meddling Monk
  The Meddling Monk, or simply The Monk, was a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Played by the British comic actor Peter Butterworth, the character appeared in two stories: as an adversary of the First Doctor.Other than the...
  
   - Graeme Garden
  Graeme Garden
  David Graeme Garden OBE is a Scottish author, actor, comedian, artist and television presenter, who first became known as a member of The Goodies.-Early life and beginnings in comedy:...
  
  
• Brother Bernard - Jim Carter
• Brother Lucianus
  Lucie Miller
  Lucie Miller is a character in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions for BBC7 based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
  
   - Ash Hidminster
  Sheridan Smith
  Sheridan Smith is an English actress and singer who is best known for her contributions to the British sitcoms Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Gavin & Stacey and Benidorm. She has also become a recognised face in West End theatre, where she has appeared in Little Shop of Horrors,...
  
  
• Brother Patrick - Ryan Sampson
  Ryan Sampson
  Ryan Oliver Sampson is an English actor best known for playing Alex Venables in the British sitcom After You've Gone, where he played the son of Jimmy Venables, played by Nicholas Lyndhurst....
  
  
• King Sitric
  Sigtrygg Silkbeard
  Sigtrygg II Silkbeard Olafsson was a Hiberno-Norse King of Dublin of the Uí Ímair dynasty...
  
   - Terrence Hardiman
• Olaf Eriksson - Nick Brimble
  Nick Brimble
  Nick Brimble , is an English actor known for his performance as Little John in the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and his appearances on various television shows....
  
  

Continuity

The Meddling Monk (originally played by Peter Butterworth

Peter Butterworth

Peter William Shorrocks Butterworth was an English comedy actor and comedian, best known for his appearances in the Carry On series of films. He was also a regular on children's television and radio and appeared in seven early episodes of Doctor Who in 1965 as the 'The Meddling Monk'...

) encountered the First 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...

 in the 1960s TV stories The Time Meddler

The Time Meddler

The Time Meddler is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 3 July to 24 July 1965...

 and The Daleks' Master Plan

The Daleks' Master Plan

The 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...

. This is his first appearance in a Big Finish audio drama.

External links

• The Book of Kells