Day of the Cockroach (audio story)

Day of the Cockroach
Doctor:	Eleventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Amy, Rory
Main enemy:	The Cockroach
Main setting:	England, 1982
Key crew
Publisher:	AudioGo
Writer:	Steve Lyons
Read by:	Arthur Darvill
Release details
Release number:	17
Release date:	3 May 2012
Format:	1x CD
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-4084-6880-7
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Day of the Cockroach was an exclusive-to-audio story from AudioGo featuring the Eleventh Doctor. It is read by Arthur Darvill.

Publisher's summary

The TARDIS materialises in a pitch-dark tunnel, where the Doctor, Amy and Rory stumble on the dead body of a soldier. Questioned by his superior officer, Colonel Bowe, they learn that they're inside a British nuclear bunker, in the middle of an atomic war — in 1982.

Amy and Rory weren't even born then, but they know the bomb didn't drop that year, and so does the Doctor. The friends also know they had nothing to do with the death of Sergeant Trott — so who, or what, was the killer? And why does the Doctor's psychic paper not work on the Colonel?

The Doctor, Amy and Rory soon learn that something else is lurking in the shadows. Something deadly...

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Eleventh Doctor
• Amy Pond
• Rory Williams
• Bowe
• Helen Atkins
• Arthur Harrington
• Trott

References

• The psychic paper does not work on humans whose minds have already been manipulated by another source, like the giant cockroaches.

Notes

• This is read by Arthur Darvill, who plays Rory Williams in the revived series of Doctor Who.
• The story was also available as a download from the AudioGO website before the company went into administration.
• This is the first of two Doctor Who audio dramas released in 2012 to feature the anachronistic outbreak of World War III in the 1980s. The second is Protect and Survive.

Continuity

• The Doctor mentions clockwork droids under his bed. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace)