List of Bernice Summerfield characters  This is a list of recurring characters from the Bernice Summerfield stories, both the original "Virgin New Adventures" featuring Bernice and the subsequent and ongoing series of audio dramas and novels by Big Finish Productions. Bernice Summerfield was a companion of the Doctor in the "New Adventures", a series of books based on the long-running BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who", but which latterly became based around the character of Bernice. Clarence is an artificial intelligence from the People. The character was created and introduced by Simon Bucher-Jones for "Ghost Devices" in which Clarence appears in the form of an angel (he is named after the angel in "It's a Wonderful Life") to Benny. Clarence is an agent of God, the artificial intelligence that controls the People's Dyson sphere and is eventually revealed (in "Tears of the Oracle") to be a character from "The Also People". God is the super-advanced artificial intelligence controlling the People's Dyson sphere. The character was introduced by Ben Aaronovitch in "The Also People" and became a frequently recurring character in the later New Adventures based around Bernice. On several occasions, God sought to use Bernice as his agent, often sending his emissary Clarence to visit her. Joseph is Bernice Summerfield's robotic secretary. He appears in several Bernice stories across the Virgin New Adventures and Big Finish's Bernice stories. John Lafayette (from "Walking to Babylon") was a Victorian translator who was exploring the ruins of Babylon. There, he stumbled across a time corridor and was drawn back in time to the city in ancient times. There he met with Bernice who was seeking out renegade members of the People and Jason, and becomes romantically involved with her. Lafayette also appears in the audio play "Birthright", although he had not appeared in the New Adventure on which it was based. Emile Mars-Smith was introduced in Matthew Jones's novel "Beyond the Sun" in 1997. "Beyond the Sun" was adapted into an audio drama by Big Finish Productions, in which Emile was portrayed by Lewis Davis. Emile was brought up by a strict religious father, and at the age of fifteen ran away to St. Oscar's University on the planet Dellah. Emile was one of Benny's students at St. Oscar's, and she took him on a field trip to the planet Apollox 4 where they became entangled with an alien species known as the Sunless.