The Red Lady (audio story)

The Red Lady
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Liv Chenka
Main enemy:	The Red Lady
Main setting:	London, 1963
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	John Dorney
Director:	Ken Bentley
Music:	Wilfredo Acosta
Sound:	Wilfredo Acosta
Cover by:	Tom Webster
Release details
Release number:	1.2
Part of:	Doom Coalition 1
Release date:	October 2015
Format:	1 X 1 hour
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-306-1
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The Red Lady was the second audio story in the anthology Doom Coalition 1. It starred Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and Nicola Walker as Liv Chenka.

Publisher's summary

An anomaly in time brings the Doctor and Liv to London in the 1960s, where they meet a young lady named Helen Sinclair - desperately trying to make a name for herself in the face of sexism and prejudice.

Whilst the Doctor tried to uncover the secrets of a mysterious artefact, a far deadlier mystery awaits Liv and Helen in the collection of a recently deceased antiquarian.

Because that's where they find the Red Lady. Because if you do, you might not like what you see.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Liv Chenka - Nicola Walker
• Helen Sinclair - Hattie Morahan
• Walter Pritchett - David Yelland

References

• Liv misquotes "discretion might be the better part of valour", which the Doctor says is a line from Shakespeare.
• Tom Jones and From Russia with Love are popular in this period.
• The Doctor mentions Steve Jobs's accomplishment of recording things on a tablet.

Notes

• This story was recorded at The Moat Studios.
• In the behind the scenes extras, producer David Richardson cites inspiration for the character of Helen Sinclair from Verity Lambert. This is reflected in the setting of the story, 1963.

Continuity

• Liv remembers Martin Donaldson. (AUDIO: A Life in the Day)
• Liv has previously visited London in the 1920s and 1970s. (AUDIO: A Life in the Day, Eyes of the Master)
• The Doctor says he has lived in 1963 several times before. (TV: An Unearthly Child, PROSE: Time and Relative). This incarnation spent a period of time trapped on Earth in the 20th century, and would have lived through 1963. (PROSE: Casualties of War, The Turing Test, Endgame, Father Time)
• The Doctor and Liv go back to 107 Baker Street. (AUDIO: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster, Fugitives, The White Room, Eyes of the Master)

External links

• Official Doom Coalition 1 page at bigfinish.com