We Are The Daleks (audio story)

We Are The Daleks
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Mel
Main enemy:	The Daleks
Main setting:	London; Bradford, October 1987; Skaro; Callico Nine
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Jonathan Morris
Director:	Ken Bentley
Music:	Wilfredo Acosta
Sound:	Wilfredo Acosta
Cover by:	Tom Webster
Release details
Release number:	201
Release date:	9 July 2015
Format:	4 parts, 2 CDs
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-541-6
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You may be looking for the Radio Times short story of the same name.

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"We Are The Daleks". That's the way the title is styled on the Big Finish website.

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We Are The Daleks was the two hundred and first story in Big Finish's monthly range. It featured the Seventh Doctor and the Daleks, as well as the return of Mel Bush who last appeared with Sylvester McCoy nearly a decade before in 2006's Red. In the intervening years, Mel had appeared in multiple audio stories with the Sixth Doctor.

Publisher's summary

The year is 1987, and Britain is divided. In Bradford, strikers are picketing and clashing with the police. In the city of London, stockbrokers are drinking champagne and politicians are courting the super-rich. The mysterious media mogul Alek Zenos, head of the Zenos Corporation, is offering Britain an economic miracle. His partners wish to invest – and their terms are too good to refuse.

While the Doctor investigates Warfleet, a new computer game craze that is sweeping the nation, Mel goes undercover to find out the truth about Zenos's partners.

The Daleks have a new paradigm. They intend to conquer the universe using economic power. The power of the free market!

Plot

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Part two

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Part three

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Part four

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Cast

• The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Melanie Bush - Bonnie Langford
• Serena Paget - Kirsty Besterman
• Alek Zenos - Angus Wright
• Celia Dunthorpe - Mary Conlon
• Niles Bunbury/Frank Lewis - Robbie Stevens
• Brinsley Heaton - Ashley Zhangazha
• Shari - Lizzie Roper
• Afrid - Dominic Thornburn
• The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs

References

• The Doctor informs the Daleks he has many names, including Ka Faraq Gatri, the Bringer of Darkness, the Destroyer of Worlds, and the Oncoming Storm.
• Zenos lists Britain as having a rich culture of artists such as Shakespeare, Gainsborough and Elgar.
• Thal refugees from Skaro inhabit the world of Callico Nine.

Notes

• This story was recorded on 5 and 6 January at The Moat Studios.
• The story makes use of pre-title sequences, a format used occasionally by Big Finish and the television series during the original run in the 1980s.

Continuity

• Mel previously encountered both the Daleks and Davros. (AUDIO: The Juggernauts)
• Mel claims that 1987 is a year into her future. (PROSE: Business Unusual)
• The Daleks do not recognise the Doctor initially based on his physiognomy, indicating that they have not yet encountered him following his regeneration. (TV: Time and the Rani)
• The Dalek Emperor believes that using children as battle computers is a good strategy because they enjoy it. They would later use a young girl, Judith Winters, as their battle computer in 1963. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
• Upon the destruction of the Daleks, the Doctor comments "ashes to ashes, rust to rust." (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
• The Daleks use a Time corridor. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)
• The Doctor describes the Daleks as "bubbling lump of hate". (TV: Death to the Daleks)

External links

• Official We Are The Daleks page at bigfinish.com