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Doctor Who - Kastrians

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Saints&Reading: Friday, March 29, 2024

march 16_ march 29

Venerable Christodulus, wonderworker of Patmos (1093)

VENERABLE CHRISTODULUS, WONDERWORKER OF PATMOS, MONK (1093)

Our Venerable Father Christódoulos 1) was born near Nicaea of Bithynia circa 1020. His parents' names were Theodore and Anna, and their son received the name John in Holy Baptism. He was renowned as an ascetic and a physician throughout the Byzantine Empire.

In 1043 he was tonsured on Mount Olympus, where, under the guidance of the Elders, he received a broad education. After the death of his Spiritual Father, he made a pilgrimage to the holy places in 1045. He visited Rome and Palestine, and he lived in Asia Minor, and on some Greek islands, where he founded several monasteries.

After the Saracen invasion of Palestine, Father Christódoulos left the Holy Land and in 1070 settled on Mount Latmos, in the stavropegial Monastery of the Theotokos in northwestern Karia. Soon he was chosen as the Superior of that monastery. In 1076, Patriarch Cosmas I of Constantinople installed Father Christódoulos as Archimandrite over all the Latmian monasteries. From 1076–1079, he labored to build and fortify monasteries.

In 1079 the Latmian monasteries were destroyed by the Seljuk Turks. The Saint took refuge with his small community in the city of Strovilos on the Aegean coast, where the hermit Arsenios placed him in charge of his monastery. Father Christódoulos soon moved to the nearby island of Kos, the least affected by Muslim incursions. There Arsenios had several estates, and on Mount Pelion, at the latter's suggestion, Christódoulos founded the Kastrian Monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos in 1080.

In 1087, he founded a monastery on the neighboring island of Leros. In addition, during his stay on the island of Kos, Saint Christódoulos organized an expedition to Mount Latmos in order to rescue the books from the monastic community which he had abandoned. These books were sent to the library of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople for safekeeping.

Seeking greater solitude and austerity, Saint Christódoulos turned his attention to the island of Patmos. He was so struck by the ascetic spirit of these places that he decided to establish a monastery on that island. In 1089, he submitted his first application to Emperor Alexios I Komnenos for a new monastic community on the island of Patmos, in place of the land on the island Kos and on the shores of Karia.

According to a Chrysobull issued in 1088, the Emperor gave the island of Patmos to Father Christódoulos as an eternal, inalienable property, exempting it from all taxes. It forbade government officials to act on the island. In fact, the island was withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the state's administration, and all judicial and administrative power on this island was concentrated in the hands of the Igoumen of the Monastery.

The Venerable one established a monastery on a mountain near the cave, where, according to Tradition, the Holy Apostle John the Theologian received a divine revelation and wrote his prophetic book in the years 68-69. The monastery was built on a rocky ledge, almost in the center of the island, and during the first three years, it had acquired the appearance of a fortress.

However, in the last years of his life, because of the raids of pirates, the Saint was forced to flee Patmos. He and his disciples went to the island of Euboea, where he reposed on March 16,1093. Shortly before his death, he gave his disciples instructions to bury him on the island of Patmos in the Monastery he founded. His disciples took his holy and incorrupt relics and transferred them to his own Monastery, where they remain for the sanctification of those who venerate them with faith.

Saint Christódoulos is also commemorated on October 21 (the transfer of his holy relics).

1 His name means "the servant of Christ."

Source: Orthodox Church in America_OCA

ISAIAH 7:1-15

1 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but could not prevail against it. 2 And it was told to the house of David, saying, “Syria’s forces are deployed in Ephraim.” So his heart and the heart of his people were moved as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind. 3 Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller’s Field, 4 “and say to him: ‘Take heed, and be quiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah. 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil against you, saying, 6 “Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of Tabel”— 7 ‘thus says the Lord God: “It shall not stand, Nor shall it come to pass. 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, And the head of Damascus is Rezin. Ephraim will be broken within sixty-five years, so it will not be a people. 9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria, And the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, Surely you shall not be established.”  10 Moreover, the Lord spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 11 “Ask a sign for yourself from the Lord your God; ask it either in the depth or in the height above.” 12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I test the Lord!” 13 Then he said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it small for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also? 14 “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel. 15 “Curds and honey He shall eat, that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good.

GENESIS 5:32-6:8

32 And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

1 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. 3 And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” 4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. 5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7 So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

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Galactic Gazetteer: Kastria

Type: terrestrial planet

Location: Mutter's Spiral

Inhabitants: Kastrians (extinct)

Affiliation: Kingdom of Kastria, c.150 million BC

Visited by: the Fourth Doctor and Sarah-Jane, the Fifth Doctor and co.

Appearances: The Hand of Fear (1976), Eldrad Must Die! (2013 audio)

Fun fact: constantly bombarded by solar winds, leaving the surface lifeless

Another fun fact: Eldrad devised a silicon-based form for the Kastrians and erected solar barriers so that they could survive the winds, but later betrayed them.

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I would absolutely date eldrad (female, though I imagine male has it's fans)

Eldrad's species, Kastrian, will be added to the list!

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The Doctor's genocides

The Fourth Doctor destroyed Sutekh, the last known Osiran. He even taunted Sutekh as he died in the "temporal trap", asking him how long Osirans live, before finally declaring, "The time of the Osirans is long past. Go." (TV: Pyramids of Mars) The Fifth Doctor twice encountered other living Osirans, but was forced each time to destroy them as well. (PROSE: The Sands of Time, AUDIO: The Bride of Peladon)

The Fourth Doctor tripped Eldrad, the last Kastrian, causing him to fall into a pit. Although the fall appeared to be fatal, the Doctor doubted he had really been killed. (TV: The Hand of Fear) He later encountered another surviving Kastrian, Mulkris, assigned to ensure that Eldrad's death sentence was carried out. (AUDIO: Eldrad Must Die!)

With Leela's help, the Fourth Doctor destroyed the last of the Fendahl. He dropped the remains of the Fendahl into a supernova to ensure their permanent destruction. (TV: Image of the Fendahl) However, this attempt appeared to have failed, as the Fendahl later managed to re-manifest in Kaldor City, (AUDIO: Checkmate) and the Eighth Doctor discovered that the Fendahl he defeated was only a fragment of the true Fendahl that remained trapped on Planet 5 (although the true Fendahl was consumed by the Fendahl Predator). (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5)

The Fourth Doctor may be arguably responsible for the death of Ligeia Bassett, the self-proclaimed last of the Valjax, as he destroyed the equipment that she was using to keep herself alive after her people were struck by a lethal plague, with Ligeia only keeping herself alive by transferring herself into the bodies of human women, this process resulting in accelerated aging and only serving as a temporary stop-gap measure. (AUDIO: The Auntie Matter)

The Fourth Doctor fulfilled a Time Lord's solemn duty by killing the King Vampire, the last of the Great Vampires and sole vampire survivor of the Vampire-Time Lord war. (TV: State of Decay)

When the Sixth Doctor was forced to wipe out the Vervoids to stop them killing the humans on Hyperion III. This was used against him in a trial occurring in his own past. When the Valeyard accused him of genocide, the Doctor said that he had no other option. (TV: Terror of the Vervoids) When the Eighth Doctor travelled to the events of the trial and met his sixth incarnation, he dismissed the charge due to the artificial nature of the Vervoids' creation. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors)

The War Doctor was about to commit double genocide when he planned to destroy the Time Lords and the Daleks at the end of the Last Great Time War with the Moment. It was apparently Rassilon's Ultimate Sanction, which threatened the whole multiverse, that convinced him he had no other choice. He believed to have committed it until the final days of his eleventh incarnation. (TV: Dalek, The End of Time, The Day of the Doctor, et al.) Actually, with the help of the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, he found a different solution and with the help of "all thirteen" incarnations of himself, froze Gallifrey and the Time Lords in a pocket universe while the Daleks destroyed themselves. He forgot about these events because the timelines were out of sync. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)

During the Dark Times, the Fledgling Empires all but wiped out the Racnoss to prevent their devouring of planets. The Tenth Doctor later made them extinct when he flooded a ship of surviving young within the Earth. He was unknowingly aided by the Master, who ordered the destruction of the Webstar which resulted in the death of the Empress of the Racnoss. (TV: The Runaway Bride)

The Doctor accused his Meta-Crisis duplicate of genocide when he destroyed all the Daleks in the Medusa Cascade, along with their fleet and the Crucible. (TV: Journey's End)

The Saturnyns were wiped out, with the Eleventh Doctor's help, in their attempt to take over Venice and convert female humans into new mates for their males. The converts were killed in an explosion, leaving the males to die out. The last female, Rosanna Calvierri, offered herself as a last meal to them, after telling the Doctor she hoped that their extinction would haunt his conscience. (TV: The Vampires of Venice)

The Twelfth Doctor destroyed Rann-Korr, the last Hyperion by channelling seas to his caverns. (COMIC: Terrorformer)

[lady-sci-fi]

I love Eldrad from the Hand of Fear. I feel like s/he is a great concept for a character. And his story is actually a tragedy - he would have been the savior of his people (barriers were his invention, after all), but his megalomania and power - hunger made him a doom of Kastrians instead. This is actually sad. What do you think?

Yeah, it was definitely a good story for a villain. That said, She was more interesting than He was. She was more nuanced and He was mostly just shouty.

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Me again. Odd question. Are there any other Classic DW villains you’d want to see again in NuWho who haven’t returned so far? I have a few. Kastrians (Eldrad’s species), Tharils (and ALL of E-Space as a whole), the Celestial Toymaker, the Black & White Guardians and the entirety of the Land of Fiction. What about you? Do you have any? I’m just curious

Those could be cool yeah. I also feel like it'd be amazing to see Sutekh, the Eternals, Light or Fenric back.

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The Endless Earth

"There exists a Great Wyrm. It burrows through the unknown world outside. And through it, we ourselves burrow. Ouram is our God and home, that in which all the world exists."

The world of Ouram is an endless series of caverns in which live the humans, elves, dwarves, gods, and many others. The great Kastrian Empire ruled over much of the known bounds of the Endless Earth, but now the High Monarch is dead without an heir and the Empire is collapsing in on itself. The fae powers of nature and fire tear at the edges of the world just as an army of metal men builds in the North.

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Beccaland Rewatches Classic Who

Tonight I finished rewatching The Hand of Fear with Whovianhermit, who'd read the Target novelization about a dozen times, but never seen it. As for me, I'm pretty sure it was one of the earliest serials I ever saw. I remember that when I was a child, the stone hand creeping across the floor seriously freaked me out every time I saw it. It remains vivid in my imagination even now, and rewatching it doesn't disappoint, though it no longer terrifies me. It's an extraordinarily effective practical effect. Eldrad's human form prosthetics are GORGEOUS--New Who might have the budget and materials to execute their alien design a bit better, but they've never designed a better one than Eldrad. The Kastrian-form Eldrad, on the other hand, is nothing but disappointing. I wish that when they'd seen how good Judith Paris was and how good her prosthetics were, and when they'd seen how comparably pathetic the Kastrian-form Eldrad was, that they'd just scrapped their plans for the latter and continued on with the former; it would have required miniscule rewriting. There's a lot of really great tension with Sarah being caught in the quarry blast and then mind-controlled, and lots of heartwarming moments when the Doctor and Sarah are looking out for each other. I am particularly fond of when the Doctor pushed Sarah to the floor and curled his 6'3"self around her 5'4" body to shield her from the radiation blast. The story is at its weakest during what are supposed to be the big action scenes. Speaking of things that are gorgeous, I ADORE THAT TARDIS INTERIOR. I am always stunned by it, even though I've seen it many times before. Sarah's departure seems terribly abrupt and doesn't arise organically at all, but that's easily headcanoned as resulting from Time Lord telepathic influence on her as well as the Doctor.

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@adorkablejournalist from here

Maybe it was because she hadn’t seen him in a long time, and at that he had already changed faces again. But she found herself silence, she knew it was him…there was no denying that. No matter the face she always said he was the same man inside, maybe his interests and personality changes but she always put that down to the logic that humans are full capable of doing the same thing as time goes on.

Still, she didn’t know what to say and the silence wasn’t that long but it still felt like quite a while.

She wasn’t surprised at him getting up slowly, in fact she was known to lose her guard around him so she only wanted to ask if something was wrong before he suddenly moved close, for sure one of the things  she didn’t expect was the tender kiss on the cheek that made her fluster slightly as a response.

She wasn’t expecting him to continue for sure though, if she really wanted to reject him though she would have moved her hand quickly, but no she let him.

When he asked if something wrong she had to glance away from those worried eyes for a second “Oh it’s just…” She paused if only to search for the words “When did you get so sweet…?”

The Doctor regard positively the silence of Sarah Jane since he had been here, inside this room. He was conscious and hadn’t forgotten nothing about the last adventures they had shared, when they had faced the Kastrian Eldrad --- and meet up again with him inside this form --- tired of the danger around her each time they travel and being called back by Gallifrey…he had regenerated off-screen, let on light hope of a reunion who never come.

He wished he could say what happened so easily, explained to her why however at the same time, the Doctor doesn’t want exposed how tragically painful everything had been. By coming back on Gallifrey he had been trapped by the old friend the Master, then fall into the bad ambition of the Black Guardian during his search of the Key to Time with Romana, had been indirectly killed by the Master, had been sent to death by the Time Lords…

Furthermore, he had changed again. He was a new man, different of the past one, looking younger than this third incarnation however somehow wiser. It was a long time ago but he still remembered the visage of Sarah Jane at his side, when words coming back to him: Please don’t die.

He taken the right decision by being the person who had broken the silent, and possibly giving some beginning of explanations about all this period when they had been apart from each other. However, the Doctor didn’t want disturbed her life too much by just be here. His travels weren’t as enthusiastic as before. The Time Lord was glad she didn’t push him away.

“Oh please, Sarah, don’t call me sweet” He exposed with an restraint voice holding himself to showed frustration to that consideration. “The physical arrangement of this body which can take to this general feeling.” Opened his mouth, he was closed to exposed the worries about his regeneration, Sarah Jane had dealing with it  when he had done nothing as Harry Sullivan asking him to do, but he rejected this idea. “I shall prefer courteous”

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Saints&Reading: Tue., March 29, 2022

March 29_March 16

THE HOLY DISCIPLE OF THE 70 – ARISTOBOULUS, BISHOP  BRITAIN (1st.c)

The Holy Apostle Aristóboulos of the Seventy was born on Cyprus. He and his brother, the Apostle Barnabas (June 11), accompanied Saint Paul on his missionary journeys. Saint Aristóboulos is mentioned by the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Romans (Romans 16:10).

There are several conflicting narratives about the hierarch's life before he went to Britain. Some identify him with Zebedee, the father of the Apostles James and John. Others say that he was the father-in-law of the Apostle Peter. Most of these are unreliable, however.

Saint Paul made Aristóboulos a bishop and sent him to preach the Gospel in Britain, Scotland, and Hibernia (Ireland), where he converted many people to Christ. He also had to endure many torments and afflictions from hostile pagans, who beat him and mocked him. Eventually, he won them over and brought them to Christ as well.

Saint Aristóboulos reposed peacefully in Britain among the people he had evangelized. Some sources say he suffered a martyr's death in Wales at an advanced age.

Saint Aristóboulos is also commemorated on October 31 (with Saints Stachys, Apellēs, Amplias, Urban, and Narcissus), and also on the Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles (January 4). In Greek usage he is commemorated on March 15.

THE MONK CHRISTODOULOS THE WONDERWORKER OF PATMOS (1093)

Our Venerable Father Christódoulos 1) was born near Nicaea of Bithynia circa 1020. His parents' names were Theodore and Anna, and their son received the name John in Holy Baptism. He was renowned as an ascetic and a physician throughout the Byzantine Empire.

In 1043 he was tonsured on Mount Olympus, where, under the guidance of the Elders, he received a broad education. After the death of his Spiritual Father, he made a pilgrimage to the holy places in 1045. He visited Rome and Palestine, and he lived in Asia Minor, and on some Greek islands, where he founded several monasteries.

After the Saracen invasion of Palestine, Father Christódoulos left the Holy Land and in 1070 settled on Mount Latmos, in the stavropegial Monastery of the Theotokos in northwestern Karia. Soon he was chosen as the Superior of that monastery. In 1076, Patriarch Cosmas I of Constantinople installed Father Christódoulos as Archimandrite over all the Latmian monasteries. From 1076–1079, he labored to build and fortify monasteries.

In 1079 the Latmian monasteries were destroyed by the Seljuk Turks. The Saint took refuge with his small community in the city of Strovilos on the Aegean coast, where the hermit Arsenios placed him in charge of his monastery. Father Christódoulos soon moved to the nearby island of Kos, the least affected by Muslim incursions. There Arsenios had several estates, and on Mount Pelion, at the latter's suggestion, Christódoulos founded the Kastrian Monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos in 1080.

In 1087, he founded a monastery on the neighboring island of Leros. In addition, during his stay on the island of Kos, Saint Christódoulos organized an expedition to Mount Latmos in order to rescue the books from the monastic community which he had abandoned. These books were sent to the library of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople for safekeeping.

Seeking greater solitude and austerity, Saint Christódoulos turned his attention to the island of Patmos. He was so struck by the ascetic spirit of these places that he decided to establish a monastery on that island. In 1089, he submitted his first application to Emperor Alexios I Komnenos for a new monastic community on the island of Patmos, in place of the land on the island Kos and on the shores of Karia.

According to a Chrysobull issued in 1088, the Emperor gave the island of Patmos to Father Christódoulos as an eternal, inalienable property, exempting it from all taxes. It forbade government officials to act on the island. In fact, the island was withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the state's administration, and all judicial and administrative power on this island was concentrated in the hands of the Igoumen of the Monastery.

The Venerable one established a monastery on a mountain near the cave, where, according to Tradition, the Holy Apostle John the Theologian received a divine revelation and wrote his prophetic book in the years 68-69. The monastery was built on a rocky ledge, almost in the center of the island, and during the first three years, it had acquired the appearance of a fortress.

However, in the last years of his life, because of the raids of pirates, the Saint was forced to flee Patmos. He and his disciples went to the island of Euboea, where he reposed on March 16,1093. Shortly before his death, he gave his disciples instructions to bury him on the island of Patmos in the Monastery he founded. His disciples took his holy and incorrupt relics and transferred them to his own Monastery, where they remain for the sanctification of those who venerate them with faith.

Saint Christódoulos is also commemorated on October 21 (the transfer of his holy relics).

1 His name means "the servant of Christ."

Source: The Orthodox Church in America_OCA

ISAIAH 25:1-9 

1 O Lord, You are my God. I will exalt You, I will praise Your name, For You have done wonderful things; Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. 2 For You have made a city a ruin, A fortified city a ruin, A palace of foreigners to be a city no more; It will never be rebuilt. 3 Therefore the strong people will glorify You; The city of the terrible nations will fear You. 4 For You have been a strength to the poor, A strength to the needy in his distress, A refuge from the storm, A shade from the heat; For the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. 5 You will reduce the noise of aliens, As heat in a dry place; As heat in the shadow of a cloud, The song of the terrible ones will be diminished. 6 And in this mountain The Lord of hosts will make for all people A feast of choice pieces, A feast of wines on the lees, Of fat things full of marrow, Of well-refined wines on the lees. 7 And He will destroy on this mountain The surface of the covering cast over all people, And the veil that is spread over all nations. 8 He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the Lord has spoken. 9 And it will be said in that day: “Behold, this is our God; We have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is the Lord; We have waited for Him; We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”

GENESIS 9:8-17 

8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying: 9 “And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you, 10 “and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth. 11 “Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 “I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 14 “It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; 15 “and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 “The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

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Stephen Thorne 1935-2019

Latest from the news site: The actor Stephen Thorne has died at the age of 84. In the 1970s Stephen Thorne created three of the greatest adversaries of the Doctor, characters whose influence endures in the programme today. His towering presence and deep melodious voice were first witnessed in the 1971 story The Dæmons, where he portrayed Azal, the last living Dæmon on Earth, in a story often cited as one of the most appreciated of the third Doctor's era and story emblematic of the close-knit UNIT team of the time. He returned to the series in 1972 playing Omega, the renegade Time Lord fighting The Three Doctors, a character that would return to confront the Doctor in later years. In 1976 he opposed the Fourth Doctor playing the male form of Eldred, last of the Kastrians in the story The Hand of Fear. Stephen Thorn was born in London in 1935. He trained as an actor at RADA and spent several seasons with the Old Vic Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Television credits were many and included roles in Z Cars, Crossroads, Sexton Blake, David Copperfield and Last of the Summer Wine. His voice was suited to Radio work where roles included Aslan in The Magicians Nephew, Treebeard in The Lord of the Rings, and Colon in Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards!. He has played many characters for Big Finish Audio productions including reprising the roles of Omega and Eldred. Thorne recorded over 300 unabridged audiobooks including children's stories and often gave readings at events in places such as Westminster Abbey. His awards include a Talkies Award 1996 for Enigma by Robert Harris and several Golden Earphones Awards from Audiofile Magazine. The death of Stephen Thorne was announced on Twitter by Lisa Bowerman on behalf of one of his great friends. It's with great sadness that Chris Benjamin has just asked me to announce the death of his oldest and dearest friend, actor #StephenThorne He leant his magnificent voice to many productions, and those who knew him, know what a gentle man he was. Many thoughts to his family. RIP Doctor Who News http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2019/05/stephen-thorne-1935-2019.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

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Kastrian - 1976

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