Foreshadowing (audio story)

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

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