Women's Day Off was the second story in the audio anthology Deadly Strangers, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Lisa McMullin and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, India Fisher as Charlotte Pollard and Jaye Griffiths as Lady Audacity Montague.
Publisher's summary[]
Iceland, 1975. Charley and Audacity are thrilled to discover that the women have gone on strike. All of them. With potentially disastrous consequences for a girl called Kyla - and everyone she comes into contact with.
Plot[]
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Cast[]
- The Doctor - Paul McGann
- Charlotte Pollard - India Fisher
- Lady Audacity Montague - Jaye Griffiths
- Kyla - Molly Harris
- Mrs Gunnar / Caroline - Kate Terence
- Jefred - George Watkins
- Butcher / Father / Uncle / Caretaker - Will Huggins
Worldbuilding[]
- The Doctor believes there is a Martian Ski-Doo in the TARDIS.
- The Doctor compares Kyla to Carrie, the eponymous protagonist of the Stephen King novel who had similarly uncontrollable telekinetic abilities and was also able to ruin a school.
- The Doctor knows a recipe for coq au vin he considers delicious. He shares it with a group of men at a supermarket made desperate by a shortage of sausages.
- Jefred's ship is painted with a genetic coating which enables it to go invisible. It is powered by an ambionic stabiliser, a bracelet of glass beads guided by the pilot's thoughts. Normally, the stabiliser controls the ship, but in the hands of someone inexperienced—Jefred needed years to master his stabiliser—and volatile like Kyla, it becomes a dangerous weapon. Her random utterances act as commands to throw people out of windows, imprison people in a cage of books, set spontaneous fires, and strand her high in the air.
- Gosbrunnur School is an all-girls' boarding school in the heart of Reykjavik. It contains a chemistry lab and library, the latter hosting such books as Tales of Moominvalley and works by H. G. Wells and Daphne du Maurier. In the 1975-76 term, Kyla and Sarah were among its students, and Therese Gunnar was an English teacher. Not long before Women's Day Off, she discussed A Doll's House with her class, assigning them an essay on Henrik Ibsen.
Notes[]
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Continuity[]
- The Doctor translates baby for someone who cannot understand it. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War, Closing Time, The Girl Who Died)
- Audacity threatens someone with her novelty fire lighter, again pretending it is a gun. (AUDIO: The Devouring)
External links[]
- Official Women's Day Off page at bigfinish.com