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	Nicholas Briggs
Production code	4S/B
Release date	February 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 .

Plot
Cast
Notes
References
External links

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.

Cast

The Doctor – Tom Baker
Leela – Louise Jameson
Harcourt – Ian McNeice
Jephson – Gareth Armstrong
Edward – Anthony Howell
Lizzie – Daisy Ashford
Beryl / Professor Hilda Lutterthwaite – Laura Molyneux
Dr Henry Carnforth – John Dorney

Notes

In the Whovian timeline, this story takes place between Destination Nerva and The Wrath of the Iceni .
Ian McNeice played Winston Churchill in the series 5 episode "Victory of the Daleks" and the series 6 episode "The Wedding of River Song".
Gareth Armstrong previously appeared with Tom Baker's Doctor in the 1976 story, The Masque of Mandragora .
Daisy Ashford is the daughter of Geoffrey Beevers and Caroline John, who played the Master and Liz Shaw, respectively.

References

External links

The Renaissance Man at the Big Finish Website

Doctor Who : Fourth Doctor stories

Television

Season 12	Robot The Ark in Space The Sontaran Experiment Genesis of the Daleks Revenge of the Cybermen
Season 13	Terror of the Zygons Planet of Evil Pyramids of Mars The Android Invasion The Brain of Morbius The Seeds of Doom
Season 14	The Masque of Mandragora The Hand of Fear The Deadly Assassin The Face of Evil The Robots of Death The Talons of Weng-Chiang
Season 15	Horror of Fang Rock The Invisible Enemy Image of the Fendahl The Sun Makers Underworld The Invasion of Time
Season 16	The Ribos Operation The Pirate Planet The Stones of Blood The Androids of Tara The Power of Kroll The Armageddon Factor
Season 17	Destiny of the Daleks City of Death The Creature from the Pit Nightmare of Eden The Horns of Nimon Shada (unaired)
Season 18	The Leisure Hive Meglos Full Circle State of Decay Warriors' Gate The Keeper of Traken Logopolis
Minor appearances	Planet of the Spiders "The Name of the Doctor" "The Day of the Doctor" "The Witch's Familiar"
See also	"The Five Doctors" Dimensions in Time

Audio

The Nest Cottage Chronicles

The Fourth Doctor Adventures

Season 1	The Renaissance Man The Wrath of the Iceni Energy of the Daleks Trail of the White Worm / The Oseidon Adventure
Season 2	The Auntie Matter The Sands of Life

Novel adaptations

Other