The Renaissance Man

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The Renaissance Man
Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series Doctor Who Fourth Doctor Adventures
Release no.1.2
Featuring Fourth Doctor
Leela
Written by Justin Richards
Directed by Ken Bentley
Executive producer(s)Nicholas Briggs
Production code4S/B
Release dateFebruary 2012

The Renaissance Man is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions as part of their Fourth Doctor Adventures .

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Plot

The Doctor endeavours to educate Leela by taking her to the greatest collection of Earth artifacts in the universe, The Morovanian Museum on Morovania Minor. But instead, they find themselves in a strange English village, inhabited by a variety of academics, and presided over by a curious collector called Harcourt.

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