2009 Audio Plays (Study Guide) - The Dead Line, Asylum, the Company of Friends, Golden Age, Hornets' Nest, the Chaos Pool, the Magic Mousetrap (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (plays not included). Pages: 105. Not illustrated. Chapters: The Dead Line, Asylum, the Company of Friends, Golden Age, Hornets' Nest, the Chaos Pool, the Magic Mousetrap, the Judgement of Isskar, Castle of Fear, the Three Companions, the Eternal Summer, the Destroyer of Delights, Blue Forgotten Planet, Paper Cuts, Patient Zero, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Plague of the Daleks, Enemy of the Daleks, the Mahogany Murderers, the Angel of Scutari, the Prisoner of Peladon, the Magician's Oath, Land of Wonder, the Pyralis Effect, the Claws of Santa, the Drowned World, the Glorious Revolution, the Sound of Fear, the Panda Invasion, Transit of Venus, Ringpullworld, Resistance, Stealers From Saiph, the Two Irises, the Mists of Time, Curse of the Pharaoh, Echoes of Insanity. Excerpt: "The Dead Line" is the last of four radio dramas released prior to the third series of Torchwood, a British science fiction television series which airs on the BBC. "The Dead Line," aired as BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play on the 3 July 2009, the episode featured the series' regular cast. In the early hours of the morning, Professor Stella Courtney receives a phone call from Ianto Jones. Confused as to why she is being called, Ianto reveals that Captain Jack Harkness needs Professor Courtney's help as he is dying. At St. Helen's hospital, Gwen Cooper leads Stella to where Jack's body lay. She remarks that Jack cannot die, to which Gwen remarks that what Jack is suffering through is worse than death itself. Upon seeing the body and meeting Ianto, Stella comes to the conclusion that Jack is more entranced than comatose; as his monitor is still relaying faint signs of activity. Stella is told that there are twenty other people in the hospital in the same condition as Jack, and it all started two nights ago when a man named Bob Roberts received a phone call in the mi...