An Unearthly Woman (audio story)

 was the first story of the audio anthology, The Diary of River Song: Series Six. It was written by Matt Fitton and featured Alex Kingston as River Song, Claudia Grant as Susan Foreman, Jamie Glover as Ian Chesterton, Jemma Powell as Barbara Wright and David Bradley as the First Doctor.

Publisher's summary
Coal Hill School has a new member of staff: an educated woman, who seems to specialise in every subject. Meanwhile, teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright have concerns over the behaviour of one of their pupils.

Susan Foreman is intrigued by Dr Song, but something else is stalking her in the darkness and fog of London, 1963...

Plot
A policeman is going on his watch on Totter's Lane, when he comes across River Song in a police uniform. She tells him she is part of a new police initiative open to women, and had been assigned to Totter's Lane. When the still doubtful policeman insists on checking at central station, River uses his perfume to make him fall asleep and forget their meeting, before taking his place.

The next morning, River is teaching at Coal Hill School, in Susan Foreman's class. The girl is intrigued by the unusual methods of her new professor, and notices she slipped some reference to the 1970s during her lesson. She confronts River about it, but River tells her she got confused, since she has only recently arrived as a suppliant teacher and had to prepare her lessons in a rush. Their conversation is interrupted by Lloyd Walker, one of Susan's classmates, coming to fetch her to walk her home.

On her way out, River is approached by Ian Chesterton, who after asking her some polite questions on how she's doing, invites her to join him and other colleagues to a nearby pub, the Red Lion, for some drinks. River accepts. At the pub, they join in conversation Barbara Wright and Ernest Newbold, just as Barbara was starting to confide the latter one some worries she had about one of her pupils. She is acting weird, asking strange questions during lessons, and Barbara suspects there may be trouble at home for her. When River asks who she's talking about, Barbara replies it is Sheila Page.

Meanwhile, Lloyd and Susan come across Sheila sitting on a swing, going higher and higher. When Susan comments she finds strange to use physic for fun, Lloyd remarks she must belong to a very "posh" family, very difficult from the one he is born. He confesses to be an orphan, with a supposed family in Birmingham nobody has located: that's the reason why he is London. As they move to leave, Sheila jumps off the swing at its highest. Lloyd reprimands her for the risk she took, and Sheila retorts by saying she only wants to have fun, unlike them. Susan notices she has been acting weird to get people's attention, which she disapproves, but Sheila dismisses her as just a "flower wall", and even gets annoyed when Susan mentions his grandfather. As the dark approaches, they all depart towards home: Sheila goes trough the woods, while Lloyd and Susan take the way along the canal.

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Cast

 * River Song - Alex Kingston
 * Susan Foreman - Claudia Grant
 * Ian Chesterton - Jamie Glover
 * Barbara Wright - Jemma Powell
 * Sheila Page / Nightstalker - Lizzie Stables
 * Lloyd Walker - Edward Dede
 * Mr Newbold / Mitchell - Owen Aaronovitch
 * The Doctor - David Bradley

Continuity

 * River Song has previously visited Totter's Lane, hoping to catch a glimpse of the First Doctor. On that occasion, she quickly fled to avoid actually meeting him. (GAME: The Eternity Clock)
 * River claims that the police officer uniform is from her mother. (TV: The Eleventh Hour, A Christmas Carol)
 * The headmaster, Mr Parson, (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks, et al.) is unable to join the others at The Red Lion. It is mentioned that he still can't find a replacement for Okehurst. (PROSE: Time and Relative)
 * The First Doctor doesn't want Susan to invite anyone back home to the TARDIS. Susan says he values his privacy. (PROSE: Time and Relative, TV: "An Unearthly Child")
 * River's energy weapon is from Villengard. (TV: The Doctor Dances, et al.)
 * Ian's chemistry classroom is referred to as Class C3. (PROSE: Nothing at the End of the Lane)
 * A section of "Oh, Won't You Please Love Me?" by The Common Men plays on the radio at the Johnsons' place. (AUDIO: 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men)
 * Barbara hopes to one day visit South America and get to see the temples there. River hints that she might one day be able to. In fact, Barbara would soon visit this area with the First Doctor, where she would be mistaken for an Aztec god. (TV: The Aztecs)
 * River knew to come to 1963 Shoreditch when she saw a bounty posted in Maldovar's. River is known to frequent the Maldovarium. (TV: The Pandorica Opens, et al.)
 * The Nightstalker refers to the First Doctor "hiding in junkyards". (TV: "An Unearthly Child")
 * The news on BBC One announces that a new science fiction series, Professor X, will be airing this Saturday. (PROSE: Conundrum, No Future, Escape Velocity, AUDIO: Klein's Story, The Crooked Man)
 * River wishes Ian good luck on his own future travels, which Ian dismisses as impossible. (TV: An Unearthly Child, The Daleks, et al.)
 * Susan claims once again to have invented the name TARDIS. (TV: "An Unearthly Child") River is surprised, and remarks that if this is true, the name "really catches on". (TV: The Brain of Morbius, Earthshock, Arc of Infinity, The Doctor's Wife, The Name of the Doctor, Hell Bent; AUDIO: Weapon of Choice, Intervention Earth, Songs of Love, Collision Course, et al.)
 * Of Gallifrey, River says to Susan, "One day you may go back", echoing the Doctor's parting words to Susan when she would later leave his side on 22nd century Earth. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) She would eventually rejoin the Time Lords, far later in life, towards the beginning of the Last Great Time War. (AUDIO: All Hands on Deck) The Doctor himself would revisit Gallifrey many times, from the end of his second life onwards. (TV: The War Games, The Deadly Assassin, The Invasion of Time, et al.) Both the Doctor and Susan would also find themselves on Gallifrey, in the Death Zone, during the events of TV: The Five Doctors.