Year of the Pig (audio story)

Publisher's summary
Ostend, 1913. War is coming. A war in which millions will die. And the guest in suite 139 of the Hotel Palace Thermae knows it. Which is odd, considering he has trotters, a snout and a lovely curly tail.

Toby the Sapient Pig is a swine on the run. Two peculiar strangers have been hunting him across Europe. The first, Miss Alice Bultitude, is an Englishwoman and collector of obscure theatrical ephemera. The second, Inspector Alphonse Chardalot, is a celebrated member of the detective police - the man who brought the trunk murderess of St Germain to justice.

This was supposed to be a reading week for the Doctor and Peri. Now they must do battle with a villain who wants to wipe every last human from the face of the earth - once he's had just another dish of truffles. And maybe a valedictory glass of fizzy lemonade.

Cast

 * The Doctor - Colin Baker
 * Peri Brown - Nicola Bryant
 * Nurse Albertine - Adjoa Andoh
 * Toby the Sapient Pig - Paul Brooke
 * Inspector Chardalot - Michael Keating
 * Miss Alice Bultitude - Maureen O'Brien

Continuity

 * The Doctor opines on the reading habits of some of his previous incarnations. He calls the First Doctor the "real Francophile", and a person who, like him, had a great appreciation for books — but not much time to do it, considering the mire beasts and Moroks he had to face. The Third Doctor, he claims, was inclined to be "more interested in axle grease and looking in the mirror" than in reading great literature. Of his immediate predecessor, he says, "he preferred cricket and fizzy lemonade to reading". The Doctor then expresses relief that he's finally found a persona temperamentally suited to reading Proust.
 * Peri says she's going to shop for a postcard to send to H. G. Wells, whom she met in DW: Timelash.

Timeline

 * Year of the Pig occurs after DW: Timelash
 * Year of the Pig occurs before VD: Timeshare