A Requiem for the Doctor (audio story): Difference between revisions

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|anthology       = ''[[The Diary of River Song: Series Three]]''

|featuring        = [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Brooke (The Lady in the Lake)|Brooke]]

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|writer          = [[Jacqueline Rayner|Jac Rayner]]

|sound            = [[Peter Doggart]], [[Benji Clifford]], [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]]

|release date    = [[23 January (releases)|23 January]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]]

|format          = 1 X 1 hour

|production code  =  

|isbn            =  

'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second full cast audio story in the third series of ''[[The Diary of River Song (audio series)|The Diary of River Song]]'', released in [[January (releases)|January]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]] by [[Big Finish Productions]].

River has joined [[Fifth Doctor|the Doctor]] and his friend [[Brooke (The Lady in the Lake)|Brooke]] on their travels, and they stop off in [[18th century]] [[Vienna]].

Brooke thinks history is dull. Until people start dying.

[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]'s legacy is not just his music. River has more than one mystery to solve before a killer is let loose on the people of Vienna – and on the Doctor.

* [[Brooke (The Lady in the Lake)|Brooke]] - [[Joanna Horton]]

* [[Giulia Brummer|Giulia]] - [[Issy Van Randwyck]]

* [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] - [[Teddy Kempner]]

* [[Antoinette (A Requiem for the Doctor)|Antoinette]] - [[Rosanna Miles]]

* [[Viktor (A Requiem for the Doctor)|Viktor]] - Teddy Kempner

* [[Stefan (A Requiem for the Doctor)|Stefan]] - Teddy Kempner

* [[Apothecary]] - Teddy Kempner

* [[Maid (A Requiem for the Doctor)|Maid]] - Rosanna Miles

== References ==

* The Doctor says he feels so good he could mud wrestle a [[Myrka]] and complete in the [[Alpha Centauri]] Olympics.

* River greets the Doctor with "Hello, Sweetie" and tells him she's an [[Archaeology|archaeologist]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'' et al)

* River asks the Doctor to give her his [[sonic screwdriver|sonic]], but the Doctor doesn't have it. When the Doctor asks her about it later, she lies and says she was asking him if he had a [[sonic lance]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'' et al) because archaeologists routinely carry them. The Doctor accepts her explanation and says he used to own a sonic screwdriver. ([[TV]]: ''[[Snakedance (TV story)|Snakedance]]'', ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'') It was destroyed by the [[Terileptil]] leader in [[September]] [[1666]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Visitation (TV story)|The Visitation]]'')

* The Doctor starts analysing the [[Aqua Galacia]] by taste and River remarks how she loves it when he gets "thinky". In River's past, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] poked fun at her for having a "he's hot when he's clever face". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'')

* River tells Brooke that her hate of the Doctor will never be enough because she's thinking of [[Asgard]], [[Byzantium (ship)|the ''Byzantium'']], and [[Demons Run]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Picnic at Asgard (short story)|Picnic at Asgard]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels (TV story)|The Time of Angels]]'' / ''[[Flesh and Stone (TV story)|Flesh and Stone]]'', ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'')

* The Doctor says he never had companions who simultaneously wanted to love and kill him when he was travelling with [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] and [[Nyssa]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'', et al)

* The Eighth Doctor would later remember these events. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Songs of Love (audio story)|Songs of Love]]'')

* {{bigfinish|releases/v/the-diary-of-river-song-series-03-1724|The Diary of River Song Series Three}}

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