The Gift (audio story)

The Gift was the third audio story in the anthology Doom Coalition 2. It starred Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and Nicola Walker as Liv Chenka.

	Eighth Doctor
	Liv, Helen
	Caleera
	San Francisco, 1906
	Big Finish Productions
	Marc Platt
	Ken Bentley
	Jamie Robertson
	Benji Clifford
	Tom Webster
	2.3
	Doom Coalition 2
	3 March 2016
	1 X 1 hour
	ISBN 978-1-78178-621-5
Doom Coalition
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Publisher's summary

The TARDIS deposits its crew on Earth in San Francisco, 1906. There they find an actor-manager desperate to stage his definitive production of King Lear. But a real storm is headed their way when he becomes the possessor of a mysterious psychic ‘Gift’ which is hungry for power and intent on wreaking havoc and destruction. But exposure to so much psychic activity has the Doctor becoming increasingly erratic. Can he battle his demons and save the world?

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Liv Chenka - Nicola Walker
• Helen Sinclair - Hattie Morahan
• Charles Virgil McLean - James Jordan
• Aldo Deluca - Enzo Squillino Jnr
• Pepé Gonzalez - Paul Marc Davis
• Laura Harding - Ethel Halliday
• Tony - Derek Ezenagu
• Caleera - Emma Cunniffe

References

• McLean stages a production of King Lear.
• The Doctor has his hair cut.

Notes

• This story was recorded at The Moat Studios.

Continuity

• The Doctor recalls being "dead and born" in San Francisco. (TV: Doctor Who)
• The Doctor mentions the music of the spheres. (TV: Music of the Spheres)
• The Doctor got a haircut in San Francisco once before, in 1997. (PROSE: Vampire Science)
• The Seventh Doctor had briefly been in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire )

External links

• Official Doom Coalition 2 page at bigfinish.com