Foreshadowing (audio story)

Foreshadowing
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Charley Pollard
Featuring:	Mike Yates
Main enemy:	A Time Roach
Main setting:	Scotland, the 1970s
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Julian Richards
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Music:	Toby Hrycek-Robinson
Sound:	Toby Hrycek-Robinson
Read by:	India Fisher
Cover by:	Mark Plastow
Release details
Release number:	5.08
Release date:	31 August 2015
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-399-3
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Foreshadowing was the eighth story of the fifth season of Big Finish Productions' Short Trips series. It was read by India Fisher.

Publisher's summary

A young lieutenant is sent to interrogate two strangers who were apprehended whilst intruding at a secure RAF base. The man seems strangely familiar, could pass for Lord Byron, and says he's an alien; meanwhile his female friend is apparently from 1930. As the lieutenant tries to find out what they're doing on his base, something connects them with a strange incident earlier in the day: stories of a giant insect...

Characters

• Eighth Doctor
• Charlotte Pollard
• Mike Yates
• Warrant officer
• Corporal Harris
• Jenkins
• Group captain
• Time Roach

References

• Time Roaches live in the Time Vortex and can be caught using a time trap. They resemble ants but are the size of rats.
• Mike Yates quotes from Alice in Wonderland.
• Charley looks 18 or 19 years old.
• The Doctor's appearance is compared to that of Lord Byron.
• The Doctor serves tea.
• The TARDIS can be placed in temporal stasis, putting it partly-materialised out of the vortex.
• Charley is wearing a purple catsuit which she procured in the TARDIS wardrobe. Yates compares it to the sort of costumes worn in science fiction television series.
• Mike had never previously heard of UNIT.
• The Doctor describes Mike as one of his oldest friends.

Notes

• This story was available for download only.

Continuity

• The Doctor calls Lieutenant Mike Yates by his future rank of Captain. (PROSE: The Scales of Injustice, TV: Terror of the Autons)
• The Doctor says he has just dropped off William Shakespeare in Warwickshire in the 16th century. (AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks)
• Charley immediately recognises a quotation from Alice in Wonderland. (AUDIO: Zagreus)
• The Time Roach doesn't like Charley, though she and the Doctor don't talk about why it doesn't. (AUDIO: Storm Warning, Neverland)
• Mike is informed by his group captain that the base will be visited by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT to investigate a missing plane. (AUDIO: Vengeance of the Stones)
• The group captain has heard good things about the Brigadier from "Chunky" Gilmore. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)

External links

• Official Foreshadowing page at bigfinish.com