Sarah Jane Smith: Buried Secrets

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Buried Secrets
Big Finish Productions audio drama
SeriesSarah Jane Smith
Release no.6
Written by David Bishop
Directed byJohn Ainsworth
Produced byJohn Ainsworth
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Length60 minutes

Sarah Jane Smith: Buried Secrets is a 2005 Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It stars Elisabeth Sladen reprising her role as Sarah Jane Smith. [1]

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Plot

By chance, Sarah Jane meets Harry Sullivan's brother: who is working at a research base in the Antarctic, which Sarah Jane is co-funding through her inheritance from Aunt Lavinia. Will Sullivan is trying to learn what has become of his brother, who has disappeared. He invites Sarah Jane to join him in the Antarctic as soon as she can conclude her current investigation.

Meanwhile, Sarah Jane learns of the death of Hilda Winters, then receives a letter from her from beyond the grave. The letter speaks of a 16th-century manuscript known as The Book of Tomorrows which foretells the future, and which is being urgently sought by the mysterious Keeper. Sarah Jane is in danger whilst she remains in possession of the letter.

When Sarah Jane's friend Natalie is arrested in Florence on a murder charge whilst taking part in an archaeological dig, Sarah Jane rushes to her assistance, and in Italy unearths a centuries-old conspiracy. Natalie has uncovered information about the manuscript, which has been missing for centuries. It predicts an alien invasion of the Earth, in which the key figure will be a person named Sarah Jane, with the initials SJS...

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References

  1. "The Sarah Jane Adventures" The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith: Part 1 (TV Episode 2008) , retrieved 18 August 2018