Persuasion (audio story)

Persuasion was the first story in the 2013 Seventh Doctor audio trilogy. It was the one hundred and seventy-fifth story in Big Finish's monthly range, and was the first appearance of companion Will Arrowsmith.

Publisher's summary
The Umbrella Man is back. But when the Doctor recruits UNIT's Scientific Adviser Elizabeth Klein for an off-the-books mission to the apocalyptic final days of Hitler's Germany, he isn't expecting Klein's hapless young assistant, Will Arrowsmith, to be joining them too.

The Doctor isn't the only alien creature seeking to loot a very particular secret from a Nazi base in Dusseldorf, however. Strange and sinister beings are converging on the same time/space location in search of the scientist Schalk, whose experiments are the key to a devastating power...

The power of Persuasion.

Part One
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Part Two
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Part Three
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Part Four
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * Dr Elizabeth Klein - Tracey Childs
 * Will Arrowsmith - Christian Edwards
 * Kurt Schalk - David Sibley
 * Lukas Hinterberger - Jonathan Forbes
 * The Shepherd/Bondsman Tango-Veldt - Paul Chahidi
 * The Shepherdess/Acquisitor Prime - Miranda Raison
 * Casta/Sylph/The Khlecht - Gemma Whelan

Continuity

 * Klein asks the Doctor where Raine is, having previously met her in AUDIO: UNIT: Dominion. She also hopes that he hasn't brought any extradimensional beings with him.
 * The whole universe is aware of the Persuasion machine. This kind of universal knowledge will happen again with the Last Great Time War, the Pandorica, (TV: The Pandorica Opens) the Doctor's death in an alternate timeline, (TV: The Wedding of River Song) and the Question on Trenzalore. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
 * The Shepard and Shepherdess as universal entities, albeit in their weakened states, are reminiscent of Gabriel and Tanith. (PROSE: Falls the Shadow)