A Requiem for the Doctor (audio story)
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A Requiem for the Doctor was the second full cast audio story in the third series of The Diary of River Song, released in January 2018 by Big Finish Productions.
Publisher's summary
River has joined the Doctor and his friend Brooke on their travels, and they stop off in 18th century Vienna.
Brooke thinks history is dull. Until people start dying.
Mozart's legacy is not just his music. River has more than one mystery to solve before a killer is let loose on the people of Vienna – and on the Doctor.
Plot
to be added
Cast
- River Song - Alex Kingston
- The Doctor - Peter Davison
- Brooke - Joanna Horton
- Giulia - Issy Van Randwyck
- Mozart - Teddy Kempner
- Antoinette - Rosanna Miles
- Viktor - Teddy Kempner
- Stefan - Teddy Kempner
- Apothecary - Teddy Kempner
- Constanze - Rosanna Miles
- Maid - Rosanna Miles
References
- The Doctor says he feels so good he could complete in the Alpha Centauri Olympics.
Notes
to be added
Continuity
- River greets the Doctor with "Hello, Sweetie" and tells him she's an archaeologist. (TV: Silence in the Library et al)
- River asks the Doctor to give her his sonic, but the Doctor doesn't have it. When the Doctor asks her about it later, she lies and says she was asking him if he had a sonic lance (TV: Robot et al) because archaeologists routinely carry them. The Doctor accepts her explanation and says he used to own a sonic screwdriver. (TV: Snakedance, Time Crash) It was destroyed by the Terileptil leader in September 1666. (TV: The Visitation)
- The Doctor starts analysing the Aqua Galacia by taste and River remarks how she loves it when he gets "thinky". In River's past, the Eleventh Doctor poked fun at her for having a "he's hot when he's clever face". (TV: The Impossible Astronaut)
- River uses the phrase "timey-wimey" and the Doctor remarks on it curiously. River tells him it will grow on him. (TV: Blink, Time Crash, The Eleventh Hour, The Wedding of River Song, The Day of the Doctor)
- River calls the Doctor "my love". (TV: The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang, COMIC: The Birthday Boy)
- River tells Brooke that her hate of the Doctor will never be enough because she's thinking of Asgard, the Byzantium, and Demons Run. (PROSE: Picnic at Asgard, TV: The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone, A Good Man Goes to War)
- The Doctor says he never had companions who simultaneously wanted to love and kill him when he was travelling with Tegan and Nyssa. (TV: Logopolis, The Keeper of Traken, et al)
- The Doctor asks River who she is. (TV: Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead, The Big Bang, A Good Man Goes to War)
External links
- Official The Diary of River Song Series Three page at bigfinish.com
