Assassin in the Limelight explained

Assassin in the Limelight
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Series:	Doctor Who
Number:	108
Featuring:	Sixth Doctor Evelyn Smythe
Cover:	Assassin in the Limelight.png
Director:	Barnaby Edwards
Executive Producer:	Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery
Production Code:	7CMD
Following:	100
Preceding:	The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
Length:	2 hrs
Date:	May 2008

Assassin in the Limelight is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Plot

Ford's Theatre, April 14, 1865. The fate of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln hangs in the balance, as a result of the meddling of Doctor Robert Knox.

This play sees Leslie Phillips reprising his role as Doctor Robert Knox from Medicinal Purposes.
The aliens in this story were previously in Pier Pressure.
Eric Loren previously played Mr Diagoras and the Dalek Sec Hybrid in the Tenth Doctor story "Daleks in Manhattan"/"Evolution of the Daleks".
The sound design and music for this story is by Martin Johnson. Martin composed the music for the stage adaptations of The Evil of the Daleks (2006) and The Dalek Masterplan (2007), the latter of which involved Nicholas Briggs.
The 'limelight' of the title is a reference to the stage lighting of the era which assassin John Wilkes Booth would have been in as an actor, but is also a play on the phrase "in the limelight" being a reference to a person being the object of attention.