The Renaissance Man

The Renaissance Man
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	Doctor Who Fourth Doctor Adventures
Release no.	1.2
Featuring	Fourth Doctor Leela
Written by	Justin Richards
Directed by	Ken Bentley
Executive producer(s)	Nicholas Briggs
Production code	4S/B
Release date	February 2012

The Renaissance Man is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions as part of their Fourth Doctor Adventures.

Plot

The Doctor endeavours to educate Leela by taking her to the greatest collection of Earth artifacts in the universe, The Morovanian Museum on Morovania Minor. But instead, they find themselves in a strange English village, inhabited by a variety of academics, and presided over by a curious collector called Harcourt.

Cast

• The Doctor – Tom Baker
• Leela – Louise Jameson
• Harcourt – Ian McNeice
• Jephson – Gareth Armstrong
• Edward – Anthony Howell
• Lizzie – Daisy Ashford
• Beryl / Professor Hilda Lutterthwaite – Laura Molyneux
• Dr Henry Carnforth – John Dorney

Notes

• In the Whovian timeline, this story takes place between Destination Nerva and The Wrath of the Iceni.
• Ian McNeice played Winston Churchill in the series 5 episode "Victory of the Daleks" and the series 6 episode "The Wedding of River Song".
• Gareth Armstrong previously appeared with Tom Baker's Doctor in the 1976 story, The Masque of Mandragora.
• Daisy Ashford is the daughter of Geoffrey Beevers and Caroline John, who played the Master and Liz Shaw, respectively.

References

External links

• The Renaissance Man at the Big Finish Website