The British Invasion (audio story)

The British Invasion
Doctor:	Second Doctor
Companion(s):	Jamie, Zoe
Featuring:	Vardan vanguard
Main setting:	Festival of Britain, London, 1951
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Ian Potter
Director:	Lisa Bowerman
Sound:	James Callaghan
Read by:	Wendy Padbury
Cover by:	Anthony Lamb
Release details
Release number:	7.08
Release date:	29 August 2017
Production code:	BFMSTDL32
ISBN:	978-1-78575-123-3
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The British Invasion was the seventh story of the seventh season of Big Finish Productions' Short Trips series.

Publisher's summary

A huge metal dome sits by the side of the river Thames, within it is a device that might change the entire future of humanity. The Doctor, Zoe and Jamie embark on a small act of kindness but the TARDIS seems oddly unwilling to help. It's as if it knows the truth. There is something waiting here, something adaptable and cunning, gathering its strength to conquer the stars.

Plot

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Characters

• Second Doctor
• Jamie McCrimmon
• Zoe Heriot
• Imogen Patten/Vardan vanguard

References

• In 1951, the Festival of Britain is meant to cheer people up after World War II and look to the future.
• The Doctor has various forms of money, including chocolate money.
• Zoe was taken from the city as a child and trained away from her family and friends. Before meeting the Doctor and Jamie, she monitored radio waves and watched the stars.
• The Doctor mentions George VI and George III. When Jamie met him, the Jacobites were fighting George II.
• There are husky dogs at the Festival.
• The radio telescope uses cathode ray tubes, but messages break up in the ionosphere. It's meant to let people bounce radio messages off of the Moon.
• The Doctor wonders if fixing the telescope would influence one child and that could change the future.
• He thinks the TARDIS is trying to hide anachronisms from him.
• Jamie uses a walkie-talkie.
• The Vardan mentions the "ancestral hymn".
• The vanguard admires British propaganda as "Vardan genius."
• The trapped Vardan slowly bleeds out into noise and joins the ancestral hymn.

Notes

• This story was recorded on 11 March, 2016.

Continuity

• The Doctor says they haven't been near the south bank of the Thames since 1688. (AUDIO: The Glorious Revolution)
• The Seventh Doctor and Ace later visit the Festival of Britain in an alternate timeline. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus)
• The Doctor mentions being on the Endeavour with Captain Cook. (AUDIO: The Transit of Venus)
• Jamie recalls visiting a museum in the future. (TV: The Dominators)
• The Doctor and Zoe discuss interfering in her history. (TV: The Aztecs)
• The Doctor mentions first encountering the Vardans and defeating them. (AUDIO: The First Wave) This is also the second time he's encountered a Vardan trying to pull itself together. (AUDIO: The Locked Room)
• The Vardan takes over Imogen's body. (PROSE: No Future)
• The Doctor mentions the Wheel. (TV: The Wheel in Space)
• The Doctor explains that Vardans like to join forces with other races. (TV: The Invasion of Time, PROSE: No Future)
• The Doctor sets a trap without telling his companions, in case their minds are read. (

External links

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