Songs of Love (audio story)

Songs of Love
Main character(s):	River, Liv, Helen
Featuring:	Eighth Doctor, Veklin
Main enemy:	Padrac, Caleera, The Eleven
Main setting:	The Capitol
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Matt Fitton
Director:	Ken Bentley
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Jamie Robertson
Sound:	Richard Fox & Lauren Yason
Cover by:	Tom Webster
Release details
Release number:	4.2
Part of:	Doom Coalition 4
Release date:	7 March 2017
Format:	1 Episode on 1 CD (2nd of 4 stories); Download
Production code:	BFPDWCDMG042
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-623-9
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Songs of Love was the second story in the audio anthology Doom Coalition 4, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Matt Fitton and featured Alex Kingston as River Song, Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Nicola Walker as Liv Chenka and Hattie Morahan as Helen Sinclair.

Publisher's summary

Left to fend for herself against a bunch of power-hungry plotters hell-bent on destroying the universe, what choice does a girl have but to throw in her lot with the winning side? Using her past to her advantage, River Song returns to the ancestral seat of the Time Lords to make her last stand.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• River Song - Alex Kingston
• Padrac - Robert Bathurst
• Liv Chenka - Nicola Walker
• Helen Sinclair - Hattie Morahan
• The Sonomancer - Emma Cunniffe
• The Eleven - Mark Bonnar
• Veklin - Beth Chalmers
• Volstrom - Vince Leigh
• Presidential Aide - Sasha Behar
• Jerastra - Olivia Poulet
• The Doctor - Paul McGann

References

Biology

• River has a binary vascular system.

Technology

• According to Padrac, the Capitol of Gallifrey, like TARDISes, also has the ability "to change its interior decor to suit the mood of its occupants".

Individuals

• The Two boasted that his "nose was particularly good at sniffing out traitors." Within the Eleven, he exposed Volstrom's betrayal of Padrac as an agent of Ollistra.

Notes

Textless cover.

• This is the first and, in fact, only Doctor-lite story of Doom Coalition.
• Despite the fact that Padrac foreshadows the possibility of a time war, Matt Fitton says that the events of The Night of the Doctor, and even the Last Great Time War are "still a long way away". (VOR 97)

Continuity

• Gallifrey's records of River Song include the fact that she is linked to a fixed point in time at Lake Silencio, on Earth, where she assassinates a future incarnation of the Doctor. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut, The Wedding of River Song)
• The Doctor temporarily remembers meeting River many times before. He mentions the Great Storm, (AUDIO: The Eye of the Storm) the Discordia, (AUDIO: Someone I Once Knew) and Vienna. (AUDIO: A Requiem for the Doctor)
• Time Lords use infostamps. (TV: The Next Doctor)
• River talks about being the Child of the TARDIS. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler, PROSE: River of Time)
• River's double hearts are mentioned. (AUDIO: The Eye of the Storm)

External links

• Official Songs of Love page at bigfinish.com