Empathy Games is a Big Finish Productions

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

Lost without the Doctor

Fourth Doctor

The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....

, Leela is drawn into a strange and savage contest on an alien world.

Cast

• Leela
  Leela (Doctor Who)
  Leela is a fictional character played by Louise Jameson in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Leela was a companion of the Fourth Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1977 to 1978...
  
   — Louise Jameson
  Louise Jameson
  Louise Jameson is an English actress, best known for playing Leela, the leather-clad barbarian warrior companion of the fourth Doctor in Doctor Who. Jameson has also appeared on Emmerdale , The Omega Factor Louise Jameson (born 20 April 1951 in Wanstead, London) is an English actress, best known...
  
  
• Co-Ordinator Angell — David Warner
  David Warner (actor)
  David Warner is an English actor who is known for playing both romantic leads and sinister or villainous characters, both in film and animation...
  
  

Continuity

• The previous Companion Chronicles play with Leela, The Catalyst
  The Catalyst (Doctor Who audio)
  The Catalyst is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.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...
  
  , ended on an uncertain note. Leela, who appeared to have survived the Time War
  Time War (Doctor Who)
  The Time War, more specifically called The Last Great Time War, is a conflict within the fictional universe of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
  
  , had escaped her captors but was dying, as she was no longer having her life extended by her long term, close proximity to the Time Lords. Her story concludes in The Time Vampire
  The Time Vampire
  The Time Vampire is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who....
  
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• The explosion at the start of this story explains why the TARDIS'
  TARDIS
  The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
  
   wooden console room was no longer used. It was last seen in Robots of Death. It's remains are revisited in The Time Vampire.
• The burning world the Doctor recalls is also seen in The Time Vampire.

External links

• Empathy Games