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The Oracle Of Delphi
''The Oracle of Delphi'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Plot Arriving in Athens in 430BCE, Bernice and Jason soon find themselves encountering a mysterious cult, the war with the Spartans, a threat to all of time and a man called Socrates. Cast * Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman * Jason Kane - Stephen Fewell * Socrates - Paul Shelley *Megaira - Brigid Zengeni * Plato - Scott Handcock Scott Handcock (born 8 November 1984) is an English writer, director and producer who has been involved in a number of audio plays for Big Finish Productions, the audio production company perhaps best associated with the Doctor Who franchise. ... *Athenian Woman - Sharon Gosling *Athenian Woman - Amanda Lindsay External linksBig Finish Productions - ''Professor Bernice Summerfield: The Oracle of Delphi'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to compact disc and for download in MP3 and m4b format) based, primarily, on cult science fiction properties. These include ''Doctor Who'', the characters Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog from '' 2000 AD'', '' Blake's 7'', '' Dark Shadows'', ''Dracula'', '' Terrahawks'', '' Sapphire & Steel'', ''Sherlock Holmes'', ''Stargate'', ''The Avengers'', '' The Prisoner'', '' Timeslip'' and '' Torchwood''. History Founded in 1996, Big Finish in late 1998 began releasing audio plays adapted from the New Adventures, a series of novels from Virgin Books which had originally been licensed ''Doctor Who'' stories, but by then had become officially independent from the show and were based around the character of Bernice "Benny" Summerfield. In 1999, Big Finish obtained a non-exclusive licence to produce official ''Doctor Who'' plays, beginning with the multi-Doctor story '' The Sirens of Time' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh List of urban areas in the European Union, largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates and is the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. Classical Athens was a powerful Greek city-state, city-state. It was a centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, and the home of Plato's Platonic Academy, Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum (classical), Lyceum. It is widely referred to as the cradle of civilization, cradle of Western culture, Western civilization and the democracy#History, birthplace of democracy, larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Works By Scott Handcock
Works may refer to: People * Caddy Works (1896–1982), American college sports coach * Samuel Works (c. 1781–1868), New York politician Albums * '' ''Works'' (Pink Floyd album)'', a Pink Floyd album from 1983 * ''Works'', a Gary Burton album from 1972 * ''Works'', a Status Quo album from 1983 * ''Works'', a John Abercrombie album from 1991 * ''Works'', a Pat Metheny album from 1994 * ''Works'', an Alan Parson Project album from 2002 * ''Works Volume 1'', a 1977 Emerson, Lake & Palmer album * ''Works Volume 2'', a 1977 Emerson, Lake & Palmer album * '' The Works'', a 1984 Queen album Other uses * Microsoft Works, a collection of office productivity programs created by Microsoft * IBM Works, an office suite for the IBM OS/2 operating system * Mount Works, Victoria Land, Antarctica See also * The Works (other) The Works may refer to: Music * ''The Works'' (Queen album), 1984 album by the British rock band Queen * ''The Works'' (Nik Kershaw album), 1989 album by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernice Summerfield Audio Plays
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Bernice may refer to: Places In the United States * Bernice, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Bernice, Louisiana, a town * Bernice, Nevada, a ghost town * Bernice, Oklahoma, a town * Bernice Coalfield, a coalfield in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania Elsewhere * Bernice, Manitoba, Canada, a community * Bernice, an Old English name for Bernicia, an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the 6th and 7th centuries Other uses * Bernice (given name), including a list of persons and characters with the name * Hurricane Bernice (other), tropical cyclones in the eastern Pacific Ocean * USS ''Mary Alice'' (SP-397), a patrol vessel originally a private steam yacht named ''Bernice'' See also * Berenice (other) Berenice is a feminine name. Berenice may also refer to: Places * Berenice, ancient Greek name for Benghazi (in Libya); still a Catholic titular episcopal see * Berenike (Epirus), ancient Greek city in Epirus * Berenice Troglodytica,also known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plato
Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning on the European continent. Along with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato is a central figure in the history of Ancient Greek philosophy and the Western and Middle Eastern philosophies descended from it. He has also shaped religion and spirituality. The so-called neoplatonism of his interpreter Plotinus greatly influenced both Christianity (through Church Fathers such as Augustine) and Islamic philosophy (through e.g. Al-Farabi). In modern times, Friedrich Nietzsche diagnosed Western culture as growing in the shadow of Plato (famously calling Christianity "Platonism for the masses"), while Alfred North Whitehead famously said: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Shelley
Paul Shelley (born Paul Matthews; 15 May 1942) is an English actor. Shelley was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, and trained at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art). Since then he has mainly worked in the theatre as a classical actor. He has worked extensively with the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company and has appeared in several West End productions. Television and film roles His work for television includes ''A Tale of Two Cities'' (1980), the BBC Sunday classic serial in which he played the dual lead roles of Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton, '' Secret Army'' (1978–79) as Major Nicholas Bradley, ''The Fourth Arm'' (1979), ''Special Branch'' (1974), ''Blake's 7'' (1979), '' Doctor Who'' (1982), ''Inspector Morse'' (1990), '' Paradise Postponed'' (1986) based on book by John Mortimer (audiobook-recorded by Paul Shelley as well) and its sequel ''Titmuss Regained'' (1991, also audiobook),, ''Revelations'' (1994–95), '' Heartbeat'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Fewell
Stephen Fewell is a British actor who portrays Jason Kane in the audio adventures of Bernice Summerfield. He has also appeared in classical theatre, in various '' Doctor Who'' audio productions, an episode of the 2005 Channel 4 drama '' The Courtroom'', Headlong Theatre's production of ''Paradise Lost'' at the Hackney Empire and in the musical play ENRON at the Royal Court and in the West End. He has written short stories: three for ''Doctor Who'' and one for ''Bernice Summerfield'' anthologies. He originated the role of Charrington in the original Headlong Theatre production of George Orwell's 1984 In September and October 2012 he played Alan Turing at The English Theatre Frankfurt in Hugh Whitemore's biographical play '' Breaking the Code''. In 2019 he played the Scofield/ McKellen role of Pierre in Venice Preserv'd for the RSC. In 2019 he appears as Pope Clement V in the History Channel Knight's Templar drama '' Knightfall''. In 2019 appears as Lord Grey in Netf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Kane (Doctor Who)
Jason Peter Kane is a fictional character from Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length '' Doctor Who'' novels, the '' New Adventures''. The ''New Adventures'' were fully licensed novels carrying on from where the ''Doctor Who'' television series had left off. Jason was introduced in Dave Stone's novel '' Death and Diplomacy'' in 1996. Character history Jason was born on Christmas Eve 1983 and grew up around London. Jason's father, Peter was abusive towards Jason and his sister, leading Jason to eventually run away from home. In 1996, Jason was caught in an alien transportation beam, causing him to be deposited in a swamp on the planet t'Kao in the 26th century. After thirteen years, the first human being he saw was Bernice "Benny" Summerfield. They fell in love and got married, but after a turbulent relationship were soon divorced. When he first meets Benny, and they discuss their sex lives, Jason candidly discusses having slept with nine women, five men and a num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socrates
Socrates (; ; –399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. These accounts are written as dialogues, in which Socrates and his interlocutors examine a subject in the style of question and answer; they gave rise to the Socratic dialogue literary genre. Contradictory accounts of Socrates make a reconstruction of his philosophy nearly impossible, a situation known as the Socratic problem. Socrates was a polarizing figure in Athenian society. In 399 BC, he was accused of impiety and corrupting the youth. After a trial that lasted a day, he was sentenced to death. He spent his last day in prison, refusing offers to help him escape. Plato's dialogues are among the most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cult
In modern English, ''cult'' is usually a pejorative term for a social group that is defined by its unusual religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs and rituals, or its common interest in a particular personality, object, or goal. This sense of the term is controversial and weakly defined—having divergent definitions both in popular culture and academia—and has also been an ongoing source of contention among scholars across several fields of study. Richardson, James T. 1993. "Definitions of Cult: From Sociological-Technical to Popular-Negative." '' Review of Religious Research'' 34(4):348–56. . . An older sense of the word involves a set of religious devotional practices that are conventional within their culture, related to a particular figure, and often associated with a particular place. References to the "cult" of a particular Catholic saint, or the imperial cult of ancient Rome, for example, use this sense of the word. While the literal and origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. The TARDIS exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. With various companions, the Doctor combats foes, works to save civilisations, and helps people in need. Beginning with William Hartnell, thirteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor; in 2017, Jodie Whittaker became the first woman to officially play the role on television. The transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the series with the concept of regeneration into a new incarnation, a plot device in which a Time Lord "transforms" into a new body when the current one is too badly harmed to heal normally. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Handcock
Scott Handcock (born 8 November 1984) is an English writer, director and producer who has been involved in a number of audio plays for Big Finish Productions, the audio production company perhaps best associated with the Doctor Who franchise. Handcock has attended fan conventions in New York City, Swansea, California, Germany, and recently worked for BBC Wales as a production runner on the third and fourth series of ''Doctor Who Confidential'', the animated ''Doctor Who'' adventure ''The Infinite Quest'', and the second series of ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''. Most recently, he has worked on the sixth series of '' Doctor Who'', beginning with Matt Smith's first Christmas special, " A Christmas Carol", and directed ''The Confessions of Dorian Gray'' series for Big Finish Productions. He has also contributed features to the official ''Doctor Who Magazine''. Audio dramas *'' Dark Shadows: The Book of Temptation'' (released September 2006) *''Bernice Summerfield: The Oracle of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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