released in 2008. Available on cd from Big Finish Productions.

cast: Louise Jameson (Leela), David Warner (Co-ordinator Angell)

LEELA: (V/O) I do not fear death.
(BEAT)
I am alone, imprisoned by the Z-nai, a race long-since dead.  The hands that bound me here lay rotting at my feet. Every room, every corridor in this city echoes with the ghosts of captors and prisoners alike. When the Z-nai breathed their last, when the virus I carried had done its work, there was hope.  There was singing.  There was joy.  But not for long.  In time, my fellow prisoners realised we had been abandoned, presumed lost, forgotten.  The joy turned to despair.  Despair to defeat.  And finally…silence..

(PAUSE.  THEN WE HEAR A SMALL GIRL CRYING IN THE DISTANCE, ECHOING. 
IT STOPS.  WE JUST HEAR THE REGULAR PIP OF LIFE SUPPORT)

These machines, designed to torture me, are keeping me alive.  For so long now; weeks, months, maybe years.  What I once thought a blessing is now a curse.  My body is old now, too old to break my bonds, too old to cry for help, but the Doctor’s people have denied me the one thing I long for more than anything else.
I do not fear death.  I ache for it.

 

2000s