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|image             = <gallery>

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|series           = ''[[The Tenth Doctor Adventures (audio series)|The Tenth Doctor Adventures]]''

|number           = 1.3

|range           = The Tenth Doctor Adventures (audio series)

|series in range = The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Volume One

|doctor           = Tenth Doctor

|companions       = [[Donna Noble]]

|enemy           = [[Mefistole]]s

|setting         = [[Goritania]], the [[1780s]]

|writer           = James Goss

|director         = [[Nicholas Briggs]]

|cover           = [[Tom Webster]]

|music           = [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]]

|sound           = [[Howard Carter (composer)|Howard Carter]]

|publisher       = Big Finish Productions

|release date     = 16 May 2016

|format           = 1 CD<br/>Download<br/>3rd of 3 stories

|production code = BFPDW10TH01C

|isbn             = ISBN 978-1-78575-230-8 (physical)<br/>ISBN 978-1-78575-235-3 (digital)

|next             = Infamy of the Zaross (audio story)

|prev             = Time Reaver (audio story)

|bts             = David Tennant and Catherine Tate The Full Interview

'''''Death and the Queen''''' was the third and final story in ''[[The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Volume One]]'', produced by [[Big Finish Productions]]. It was written by [[James Goss]] and featured [[David Tennant]] as the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Catherine Tate]] as [[Donna Noble]].

 

It was added for free to the podcast ''[[Into the TARDIS]]'' as part of Big Finish's [[List of anniversaries|25th anniversary]] of creating ''[[Doctor Who]]'' audio stories. It was released in two parts on [[28 March (releases)|28 March]] and [[6 April (releases)|6 April]] [[2024 (releases)|2024]] and hosted by [[Sixth Doctor]] actor [[Colin Baker]]. It was the first story to be re-released onto the podcast.

* [[Hortense]] - [[Beth Chalmers]]

* Cloud/Skeleton - Alan Cox<ref name="BFX" /><ref>Is to be played by the same actor as Death and Cloud, according to the script.</ref>

== Crew ==

 

=== Locations ===

* The Doctor and Donna were originally going to Blackpool but landed in the French Riviera instead where Donna met Rudolph.

 

* [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver]] has a setting for horseshoes.

* The Doctor wonders why [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]'s [[translation circuits]] aren't translating the motto of the kingdom.

 

* Donna refers to Death as "[[Skeletor]]".

* This story was recorded on [[22 October (production)|22 October]] [[2015 (production)|2015]] at [[The Moat Studios]].

* When the Doctor said, "I love the smell of regime change in the morning", it was a reference to the line, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" from the 1979 film {{wi|Apocalypse Now}}.

* This story was first broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4 Extra]] on [[3 September (releases)|3 September]] [[2022 (releases)|2022]].<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bq6z</ref> It was later edited into two parts which were first broadcast on [[10 November (releases)|10]] and [[13 November (releases)|13 November]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]].<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001s4p6</ref><ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001sdp2</ref> The first part ends after the Doctor admits he has lied to Donna.

* Donna refers to her skill at [[shorthand]]. She listed it as one of the skills of a [[temp]] in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}}.

* Donna notes that she has a history of choosing bad men to marry. Her previous [[fiancé]] was [[Lance Bennett]], who, like in this story, planned to sacrifice her in order to resurrect the [[Racnoss]] in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Runaway Bride (TV story)}}.

* The Doctor states that the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] is able to [[Translation circuit|translate]] all languages, as was stated on numerous other occasions such as [[TV]]: {{cs|The End of the World (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Christmas Invasion (TV story)}}, and {{cs|Cold War (TV story)}}. However, it sometimes fails due to the age of the language, as was also seen in ''The Christmas Invasion'' and [[TV]]: {{cs|The Impossible Planet (TV story)}}.

* The Doctor refers to the fact that his companions leave the TARDIS to save another [[universe]]. Examples include [[Romana II]] in [[TV]]: {{cs|Warriors' Gate (TV story)}} and [[Rose Tyler]] in [[TV]]: {{cs|Doomsday (TV story)}}. They also leave after they fall in love, as happened with [[Vicki Pallister]] in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Myth Makers (TV story)}}, [[Jo Grant]] in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Green Death (TV story)}}, [[Leela]] in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Invasion of Time (TV story)}}, [[Thomas Brewster]] in [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|A Perfect World (audio story)}}, and [[Evelyn Smythe]] in [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Thicker Than Water (audio story)}}.

* The Doctor says that he once had [[K9|a robot dog]] who left him twice. [[K9 Mark I]] left with Leela in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Invasion of Time (TV story)}}, while K9 Mark II left with Romana in [[TV]]: {{cs|Warriors' Gate (TV story)}}.

* The Doctor notes that he was present at Donna's previous [[wedding]], which is not strictly true, but he was certainly involved in the events surrounding her wedding in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Runaway Bride (TV story)}}; and that he'll probably be present at her next. Indeed he was, though Donna no longer remembered him, as depicted in [[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)|part=Two}}.

* Donna refers to Death as "[[Skeletor]]". She also referred to both a [[Sycorax]] in [[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Widow's Curse (comic story)}} and [[Meng Tian]] in [[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Immortal Emperor (comic story)}} as such.

* The Doctor once again says, "My kingdom for a horse", as the [[Sixth Doctor]] did in [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Hollows of Time (audio story)}}.

 

Death and the Queen (audio story) vinyl textless.jpg|Textless vinyl cover

Death and the Queen German.jpg|''[[Doctor Who auf Deutsch]]'' cover titled ''Der Tod und die Königin''

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{{bigfinish|releases/v/doctor-who-der-tod-und-die-koenigin-1906|Doctor Who auf Deutsch: Der Tod und die Königin}}

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