A Life in the Day (audio story)

A Life in the Day
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Liv
Featuring:	Kitty
Main enemy:	The Woman
Main setting:	London, 1921
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	John Dorney
Director:	Ken Bentley
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Tom Webster
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	4.1
Part of:	Dark Eyes 4
Release date:	2 March 2015
Format:	1 CD Download 1st of 4 stories
Production code:	BFPDWCDMG036
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-306-1 (physical) ISBN 978-1-78703-925-4 (digital)
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You may be looking for the short story of the same name.

A Life in the Day was the first story in the audio anthology Dark Eyes 4. It was written by John Dorney starred Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and Nicola Walker as Liv Chenka.

Publisher's summary

The Doctor and Liv return to post-World War One London, where the Doctor meets Kitty Donaldson, and Liv strikes a friendship with her brother Martin. But what mysterious force is hunting them?

Plot

The Eighth Doctor meets Kitty Donaldson, who asks him to check up on her brother Martin Donaldson - mistaking the Doctor for a medical doctor. This leads to the Doctor finding an unstable time field around Martin.

Martin befriends Liv and takes on a tour of London, during which they go to see a film, eat at a restaurant and visit the British Museum. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Kitty narrowly avoid capture from androids.

Throughout the day, Martin leaves items such as a diamond ring and an alarm clock, aiding the Doctor in evading capture. The androids finally arrive at the Donaldson house, capture the TARDIS and trigger a time grenade.

Martin saves the Doctor, Liv and Kitty by jumping onto the time grenade. This caused him to become stuck in a time loop, continuously reliving the events of the previous day, hence the reason for him leaving items to assist the Doctor. In his final moments, Martin admits he has fallen in love with Liv and by living in the time loop he can spend more time with her.

Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Liv Chenka - Nicola Walker
• Martin Donaldson - Barnaby Kay
• Kitty Donaldson - Beth Chalmers
• The Woman - Charlie Norfolk
• Usher - Derek Hutchinson
• Projectionist/Policeman/Guide - Dan Starkey
• Receptionist - Camilla Power
• Android - John Banks

Crew

• Cover Art - Tom Webster
• Director - Ken Bentley
• Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
• Music and Sound Design - Howard Carter
• Producer - David Richardson
• Writer - John Dorney

Worldbuilding

• Martin takes Liv to see a film featuring Buster Keaton playing a goat.
• Temporal grenades operate in four dimensions, wiping out adjacent time periods.

Notes

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  CD Booklet interior illustration of the Doctor running from an explosion in a building reaching for an analogue alarm clock.
  This is the first Dark Eyes story not to feature the Reborn Master since The White Room. It is, along with that story, one of only two Dark Eyes stories to feature neither the Master nor the Daleks.

Continuity

• The Doctor tells Liv that he has had seven incarnations before his current one. (TV: The Tenth Planet, et al.)
• The Doctor mentions meeting Kitty in the fields of France. (AUDIO: The Great War)
• The Doctor gives Liv Chenka her own key to the TARDIS, a privilege he granted to many of his companions. (TV: The Daleks)
• The Doctor says that he can't go to 107 Baker Street as the Fourth Doctor is using it right now. (AUDIO: The Haunting of Malkin Place)
• One of the items in the British Museum is colloquially known as "The Red Lady," despite not depicting such a thing. (AUDIO: The Red Lady)
• Martin shows Liv the Elgin Marbles. In the 22nd century, the Monk would steal the marbles, among other items, taking advantage of the second 2150s Dalek invasion of Earth (AUDIO: Lucie Miller)
• When Kitty greets the Doctor after giving her his name, he asks if she's looking for a husband, having "made that mistake before". (AUDIO: Other Lives)

External links

• Official A Life in the Day page at bigfinish.com