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{{Infobox Story

|image=Other Lives cover.jpg  

|range           = Main Range

|number in range = 77

|series=[[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|Big Finish ''Doctor Who'' audio stories]]

|number= 77  

|doctor= Eighth Doctor

|companions= [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]], [[C'rizz]]  

|enemy= [[Jacob Crackles]]

|setting= [[London]], [[1851]]

|writer= [[Gary Hopkins]]

|director= [[Gary Russell]]  

|post production= [[David Darlington]]

|music=[[David Darlington]]

|cover=[[Lee Binding]]

|publisher= Big Finish Productions  

|release date= [[December (releases)|December]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]]

|format= 4 Episodes on 2 CDs  

|production code= [[List of production codes|8Y]]  

|isbn= ISBN 1-84435-162-9

|prev= Singularity (audio story)  

|next= Pier Pressure (audio story)

'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the seventy-seventh [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|monthly ''Doctor Who'' audio story]] produced by [[Big Finish Productions]].

The Doctor takes his companions to the great exhibition in 1851. Charley meets the Duke of Wellington; C'rizz becomes kidnapped by a local street thug and put on display as a freak; the Doctor saves a French couple from assassination by letting them into his TARDIS, but gets mistaken for their assailant when the TARDIS dematerialises all of a sudden. In prison he meets the real assassin and inadvertently helps him escape. The next morning a woman claiming to be his wife posts his bail. The woman keeps trying to convince him that he is her husband but after another incident with the assassin, he is told that she already knows. She needed his likeness to fool her husband's uncle so that she and her children will be able to keep their home. The Doctor decides to play along with the charade and returns to the Crystal Palace afterwards, where he finds C'rizz and Charley and the TARDIS.

* [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley Pollard]]/[[Madeline De Roche|Madame De Roche]] - [[India Fisher]]

* [[C'rizz]]/[[Christian De Roche|Monsieur De Roche]] - [[Conrad Westmaas]]

* [[Jacob Crackles]] - [[Mike Holloway]]

== References ==

* To date, this is the only pure historical story in performed ''Doctor Who'' to feature the Eighth Doctor.

* This is the first of two audio dramas released in the main range to feature the Duke of Wellington as a character. The other is ''[[The Curse of Davros (audio story)|The Curse of Davros]]'' in January 2012, in which the Duke was played by [[Granville Saxton]]. He does not actually have a direct conversation with the Doctor in either story.

* [[Paul McGann]], [[India Fisher]] and [[Conrad Westmaas]] all play dual roles in this story.  

* This audio drama was recorded on [[29 April (production)|29]] and [[30 April (production)|30 April]] 2005.

* C'rizz is forced to perform in Jacob Crackles' freakshow in the same manner as [[Captain]] [[Kybo]] in [[Jonathan Jaggers]]' [[circus]] in [[1884]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Judoon in Chains (audio story)|Judoon in Chains]]'') and the alien creatures in [[Thaddeus P. Winklemeyer]]'s freakshow in [[Buzzard Creek]], [[Arizona]] in [[1905]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Freakshow (audio story)|Freakshow]]'').

* During his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]], the Doctor would later return to the Great Exhibition in the company of [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] and encounter the [[Hypothetical Gentleman]]. On that occasion, he mentioned that he had to be careful not to run into himself. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hypothetical Gentleman (comic story)|Hypothetical Gentleman]]'')

* The Doctor and his companions agree to meet at [[Oslers Crystal Fountain]]. The [[Seventh Doctor]] previously dealt with an incident involving the fountain. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Claws of the Klathi]]'')

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