Lay Down Your Arms (audio story)

Lay Down Your Arms
Doctor:	Ninth Doctor
Main setting:	Bad Homburg Spa, 1864
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Lisa McMullin
Director:	Ken Bentley
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Caroline Tankersley
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	3.2
Part of:	Hidden Depths
Release date:	23 November 2022
Format:	1 CD Download Vinyl 2nd of 3 stories
Production code:	BFPDW9TH07
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-83868-760-1 (physical); ISBN 978-1-83868-761-8 (digital)
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Lay Down Your Arms was the second story in the audio anthology Hidden Depths, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Lisa McMullin and featured Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor.

Publisher's summary

1864. Instead of relaxing at the Bad Homburg Spa, its visitors are fighting. And Bertha Kinzky, housekeeper to Alfred Nobel, is appalled. Perhaps the mysterious Herr Schmidt can help?

Soon, Bertha is contending with aliens, as well as her mother’s matchmaking, as she and the Doctor try to keep the peace.

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - Christopher Eccleston
• Sophie Kinzky - Diana Quick
• Bertha Kinzky - Kate Sissons
• Tsar Alexander II / Trinity - Jamie Parker
• Ludwig Von Hasseldorf - Joseph Kloska

References

• No Go Flo Tro Wo was an opera piece written by the Judoon, and described by the Doctor as "a bit staccato". Every time a piece of Judoon music is created, the Judoon arrest themselves for "intergalactic crimes against music".

Cultural references from the real world

• Sophie admonishes Bertha for turning down "Two princes. Princes who adore you." This lines is similar to one of the lyrics of the song Two Princes by The Spin Doctors.
• Trinity uses the phrase "Let slip the dogs of war," which is taken from the William Shakespeare play Mark Anthony

Notes

to be added

Continuity

to be added

External links

• Official Lay Down Your Arms page at bigfinish.com