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Christmas Eve, and in a secret library underneath Buckingham Palace, Queen Victoria has invited her new prime minister to a very private tradition.
<BR><BR>At one hour to midnight, the monarch insists on the telling of ghost stories. Stories of the supernatural, the alien, and the unsettling. Only this year, something else has got in.
<BR><BR>We are not alone.

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Rowena Cooper (<B>Queen Victoria</B>), Hugh Fraser (<B>Castringham</B>), Richard David-Caine (<B>The Prime Minister</B>), Patience Tomlinson (<B>Mrs Wickmere / Mrs Elm / Miss Archibald</B>)

<BR><BR><B>Directed by Lisa Bowerman</B>

<BR><BR>Release date: December 2022

<BR><BR><B>Notes:</B>
<BR>*Featuring Queen Victoria
<BR><BR>*A Big Finish 'Torchwood' audio production
<BR><BR>*Time-Placing: The framing sequence takes place around the time of the 'coal crisis' in the early 1870s. Victoria's story takes place between 1825, when she was six years old, and 1845; Castingham's story and the Prime Minister (Gladstone?)'s story take place a year or two prior to the framing sequence

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