Vanguard (UTNS audio story)

Vanguard (UTNS audio story)
Main character(s):	Kate Stewart, Osgood
Featuring:	Shindi, Carter
Main enemy:	Nestene Consciousness, Simon Devlin
Main setting:	Buckinghamshire, 2010s
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Matt Fitton
Director:	Ken Bentley
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Release details
Release number:	1.1
Part of:	Extinction
Release date:	9 November 2015
Format:	1 CD
Production code:	BFPUNS01
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-612-3
UNIT: The New Series
Next →	Earthfall

Vanguard (UTNS audio story) was the first story in the audio anthology, Extinction, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Matt Fitton and featured Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart and Ingrid Oliver as Petronella Osgood.

Publisher's summary

From a state-of-the-art bunker beneath the Tower of London, Kate Stewart leads a secret army protecting the Earth from extraterrestrial threat. Crashed UFOs, strange meteors, a giant lizard in the Severn - all business as usual for UNIT.

While Scientific Advisor Osgood attends a 'skyfall' incident with Colonel Shindi and Captain Josh Carter, Kate's duties take her to visit Devlin Future Tech, and reclusive billionaire Simon Devlin.

Journalist Jacqui McGee is also on FutureTech's case, and nothing's going to get in the way of her story: a product launch that will change the world...

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Kate Stewart - Jemma Redgrave
• Osgood - Ingrid Oliver
• Colonel Shindi - Ramon Tikaram
• Captain Josh Carter - James Joyce
• Simon Devlin - Steve John Shepherd
• Jenna Gold - Karina Fernandez
• Jacqui McGee - Tracy Wiles
• Tim Stevens - Derek Carlyle
• The Nestene Consciousness - Nicholas Briggs

References

• UNIT possesses an explosive called Nitro-12.

Notes

• On 1 June 2017, Big Finish made this first episode of the anthology Extinction available as a separate free download.

Continuity

• Robotic ravens are being installed at the Tower of London. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
• Kate wants to replicate the TARDIS language translation capabilities. (TV: The Masque of Mandragora, et al.)
• Osgood mentions the Pharos Project. (TV: Logopolis)
• Osgood has read the UNIT files on the Nestene and Autons. (TV: Spearhead from Space, Terror of the Autons)

External links

• Official Vanguard (UTNS audio story) (free download) page at bigfinish.com
• Official Vanguard (UTNS audio story) - Extinction page at bigfinish.com