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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Face the Raven
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'The Doctor and Clara, with their old friend Rigsy, find themselves in a magical alien world, hidden on a street in the heart of London.'

Source: BBC synopsis.

Notes

  • In June 2018, the Black Archive (a series of critical monographs on episodes of Doctor Who) released their twentieth instalment, on Face the Raven, written by Australian Sarah Groenewegen, who has written her own Doctor Who ancillary materials.

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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Extent: 45min.p.
      Series: form y separately published work icon Doctor Who (International) assertion London : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1963- 9076372 1963 series - publisher film/TV science fiction

      Long-running British science-fiction television programme.

      Doctor Who ran from 1963 to 1989 in its original incarnation. After a long hiatus, it returned in 2005. Both series are treated as a single series on AustLit, with individual episodes listed as 'original series' or 'new series'.

      Number in series: 9.10 (new series)

Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Face the Raven Sarah Groenewegen , Edinburgh : Obverse Books , 2018 16899294 2018 multi chapter work criticism

'‘Let me be brave. Let me be brave …’

'In a series where violent death is prevalent but the regular characters generally immune, Face the Raven (2015) is a rarity in featuring the demise of the 12th Doctor’s longstanding companion Clara Oswald. While Doctor Who’s basis as a time-travel series means that the audience will see Clara again, everything after her death here is borrowed time.

'The figures reintroduced by Face the Raven all play unexpected parts: Ashildr, a Viking woman made immortal by the Doctor, is a mayor; Rigsy, a graffiti artist befriended by Clara, is a murder suspect; and numerous monsters from the series’ past have become refugees. Scripted by Sarah Dollard, an Australian living in the UK, the story uses the tropes and imagery of Doctor Who to comment on real-world issues of immigration, asylum and the penal system, its narrative leading directly to the Doctor’s own incarceration in the following episode.

'This Black Archive draws on the history of London and its presentation in fantasy, on queer and feminist theory and on the mythic and folkloric symbolism of ravens to examine this haunting story. It is the first of three books dealing with the final episodes of the 2015 season of Doctor Who.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

y separately published work icon Face the Raven Sarah Groenewegen , Edinburgh : Obverse Books , 2018 16899294 2018 multi chapter work criticism

'‘Let me be brave. Let me be brave …’

'In a series where violent death is prevalent but the regular characters generally immune, Face the Raven (2015) is a rarity in featuring the demise of the 12th Doctor’s longstanding companion Clara Oswald. While Doctor Who’s basis as a time-travel series means that the audience will see Clara again, everything after her death here is borrowed time.

'The figures reintroduced by Face the Raven all play unexpected parts: Ashildr, a Viking woman made immortal by the Doctor, is a mayor; Rigsy, a graffiti artist befriended by Clara, is a murder suspect; and numerous monsters from the series’ past have become refugees. Scripted by Sarah Dollard, an Australian living in the UK, the story uses the tropes and imagery of Doctor Who to comment on real-world issues of immigration, asylum and the penal system, its narrative leading directly to the Doctor’s own incarceration in the following episode.

'This Black Archive draws on the history of London and its presentation in fantasy, on queer and feminist theory and on the mythic and folkloric symbolism of ravens to examine this haunting story. It is the first of three books dealing with the final episodes of the 2015 season of Doctor Who.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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