The Church and the Crown (audio story)

The Church and the Crown (audio story)

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The Church and the Crown
Doctor:	[[doctor::Fifth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Peri Brown Erimem
Main setting:	1626, in Paris, France, Earth
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writers:	Cavan Scott and Mark Wright
Director:	Gary Russell
Producer:	Gareth Jenkins
Release details
Release number:	38
Release date:	November 2002
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	6Q/C
ISBN:	ISBN 1-903654-75-0

Publisher's summary

A nation divided

A Queen's life at risk

A net of conspiracy closing in...

Sometimes being a time travelling adventurer just isn't easy...

For a start there's a temperamental TARDIS that lands a few thousand years off course in 17th Century Paris. But why shouldn't the Doctor, Peri and their travelling guest Erimem take a look around the city on the morning of King Louis' annual State Ball?

As Peri becomes embroiled in a plot to kill Queen Anne and smash the unity of the Church and the Crown, the Doctor finds himself duelling musketeers on the streets.

With Peri missing, Erimem catching King Louis' eye and a Musketeer's sword at your throat, could things get any worse?

Probably...

Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Davison
• Peri - Nicola Bryant
• Erimem - Caroline Morris
• King Louis XIII- Andrew Mackay
• Queen Anne of France - Nicola Bryant
• Cardinal Richelieu - Michael Shallard
• Duke Buckingham - Marcus Hutton
• Delmarre - Peter John
• Rouffet - Andy Coleman
• Captain Morand - Robert Curbishley
• Madame de Chevreuse - Wendy Albiston

References

• The Doctor offers to take Peri and Erimem to Barastabon for a chocolate cake.
• At the start of the story, the Doctor was trying to reach the Braxiatel Collection.

Notes

• Dates based on history: The Church and the Crown must occur in 1626 - Cardinal Richelieu is named Louis XIII's chief minister in 1624 and Richelieu says he was tasks with helping Louis achieve his dream of a united France "two years ago". Also the Doctor says Buckingham will be killed in two years time - he dies in 1628.
• Marcus Hutton would later play another Duke of Buckingham in BFA: The Kingmaker, which likewise featured the Fifth Doctor, Peri and Erimem.

Continuity

• The Doctor's companion Nyssa encountered a double in DW: Black Orchid. He himself has twice encountered doubles: in DW: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve and in DW: The Enemy of the World.

Timeline

• The Church and the Crown occurs after BFA: The Eye of the Scorpion
• The Church and the Crown occurs before BFA: No Place Like Home

External links

• Official The Church and the Crown page at bigfinish.com
• The Church and the Crown at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for The Church and the Crown at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide