...ish (audio drama)

…ish is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Plot

The Sixth Doctor and Peri attend a conference of lexicographers where an unfortunate murder has occurred.

The Omniverbum is a term used to describe the mythical longest word in existence. According to records, no one who has found the Omniverbum has lived to tell of it.

Cast

• The Doctor — Colin Baker
• Peri — Nicola Bryant
• Book — Moray Treadwell
• Professor Osefa de Palabra Hftzbrn — Marie Collett
• Symposiarch Cawdrey — Oliver Hume
• Warren — Chris Eley

Notes

• During this play, the Doctor uses the Delphon eyebrow language, first mentioned in the Third Doctor serial Spearhead from Space.
• The Doctor is pressed into giving the conference attendees an humorous anecdote; the audience misses most, but returns to the Doctor telling the audience, "and then he said, 'Sausage? SAUSAGE!?' and ran out of the room" to much laughter. This seems to be a reference to the Blackadder episode Ink and Incapability, where Samuel Johnson (as played by Robbie Coltrane) makes the same exclamation at the episode's end, realizing he has left the word "sausage" out of his nascent dictionary. Both the Blackadder episode and this radio drama dealt with dictionaries and word-meanings.

• Several sound effects for the lexisphere are re-used from the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series.

External links

• Big Finish Productions - ...ish
• ...ish at the Doctor Who Reference Guide

Reviews

• ...ish reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
• ...ish reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide