Sound and chaos the story of bc studio movie#

Out of this swirl, the waters divided into sweet, fresh water, known as the god Apsu, and salty bitter water, the goddess Tiamat. In the beginning, there was only undifferentiated water swirling in chaos. The story, one of the oldest, if not the oldest in the world, concerns the birth of the gods and the creation of the universe and human beings.

Even so, Ea does still play an important part in the Babylonian version of the Enuma Elish by creating human beings. Marduk, the god of Babylon, only figures as prominently as he does in the story because most of the copies found are from Babylonian scribes. The god of each city was always considered the best and most powerful. The copy found at Ashur has the god Ashur in the main role as was the custom of the cities of Mesopotamia.

Official Mask of Tragedy page at bigfinish.As Marduk, the champion of the young gods in their war against Tiamat, is of Babylonian origin, the Sumerian Ea/ Enki or Enlil is thought to have played the major role in the original version of the story.

Hector asks the Doctor to return him to Liverpool in the 2020s.

The Doctor refers to Alexander the Great, whom he met in Babylon in May and June 323 BC during his first incarnation.

The Doctor tells Aristophanes that Hector is still recovering from having been controlled by the Swarm in 4920 and the 52nd century.

( TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, The Curse of Fenric AUDIO: The Magic Mousetrap, Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge, Protect and Survive, Black and White, Gods and Monsters)

Ace refers to her numerous encounters with evils from the dawn of time.

The Doctor says, 'When I say 'run', run.' ( TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen).The Doctor uses a handful of Metebelis crystals.At some point prior to his seventh incarnation, the Doctor saved two of Aristophanes' plays from the burning of the Library of Alexandria in the 5th century.( PROSE: The Book of Shadows) During his fourth incarnation, he and Leela met him at a gathering at Anaximander's house. During his first incarnation, the Doctor found Aristophanes and Eratosthenes arguing in a library in Egypt in the 4th century B.C.The Doctor decided to take Ace and Hector to Athens in 421 BC after defeating the Swarm on the asteroid K4067 in the 52nd century.Subscribers whose subscriptions included this story also received the audio short story Waiting for Gadot.This story was recorded on 24 & 25 February 2014 at the Moat Studios.After the Doctor changes history slightly, he comments that he will have to edit Wikipedia to reflect the change.Psychic overflow from the mask impinges on the troposphere, causing the sunrise to last longer.In 422 BC, Aristophanes wrote a play entitled The Wasps in which he mocked jurors, accusing them of being corrupt and in Cleon's pay.Aristophanes and Cleon knew each other when they were children.

Sound and chaos the story of bc studio movie#

He says he's never seen a horror movie because he's never had the time.The Doctor refers to Wham! and One Direction.Ace refers to herself as ' Germaine Greer'.The Doctor previously visited Athens in the company of Melanie Bush, who corrected Euclid's geometry, much to his annoyance.Tyrgius mistakes Aristophanes for Euripides.Athens has been at war with Sparta for many years.Aristophanes is aware of the existence of time travel.Ace describes the Time Lords as 'the men in high collars'.Telephus / Cisyphus / Old Man - Tim Treloar.Tyrgius / Slave Trader / Boy - Russell Bentley.And who better to be a hero in ancient Greece than a man called Hector? And the giant flying beetle with knives for wings that stalks the city streets at night. The tyrannical rule of the paranoid, malicious Cleon and his network of informers. The plague that turns people into the walking dead. There's the ever-present threat of invasion from the Spartan horde. The Doctor has decided to show Ace and Hector how it all began, with help from the great comedian Aristophanes.īut life in Athens is no laughing matter. An ancient civilisation of philosophers and poets and the birthplace of theatre.