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|range          = Main Range

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|setting        = [[Light City]], the [[Divergent Universe]]

|director        = [[Gary Russell]]

|producer        = Gary Russell, [[Jason Haigh-Ellery]]

|cover          = [[Steve Johnson]]

|publisher      = Big Finish Productions

|format          = 2 CDs<br/>Download

|production code = [[List of production codes|8Q]]

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* [[Nurse (The Natural History of Fear)|Nurse 1]] / [[Shipping clerk (The Natural History of Fear)|Shipping Clerk]] / [[Trooper (The Natural History of Fear)|Trooper]] / [[Certification Board Member|Certification Board Member 1]] - [[Ben Summers]]

* The infotainment versions of the Doctor and Charley's adventures consist of a total of 1,306 episodes. According to the DJ, there are missing episodes as well as episodes which were commissioned but never produced such as ''White Noise'' and ''Dark Rising''.

* [[Jubilee Day]] is the only day every quarter that the Proles can engage in banned activities. It is a form of controlled chaos.

* When the Doctor mentioned the [[Dalai Lama]] during their visit to Light City, C'rizz initially believed that he is speaking about an animal. Charley then explained about [[Buddhism]] and [[reincarnation]]. She claims that the belief in reincarnation as being "very pagan."

* The Doctor believes that Light City is comparable to the glory of [[Rome]].

== Notes ==

* This audio deals with personality alteration. Accordingly, characters' names are generally not given in the narrative. Titles are substituted. The cast list, both on the official website and on the liner notes, attempts to extend the confusion by merely listing the names of the actors, without giving the characters' names.

* The working title for this story was ''Pendulum''. Writer [[Jim Mortimore]] originally submitted the idea for this story to [[David J. Howe]] for the [[Telos Doctor Who novella]] range.

* An illustrated preview for this story appeared in [[DWM 340]] illustrated by [[Martin Geraghty]].

* The end of disc two features a music suite consisting of the Infotainment theme, the ambient music the [[Editor (The Natural History of Fear)|Editor 1]] listens to, and the sound effects used during [[Eighth Doctor|the Doctor]], [[Charley Pollard|Charley]] and [[C'rizz]]'s arrival in [[Light City]].

* Clips from the audio stories ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'', ''[[Living Legend (audio story)|Living Legend]]'', ''[[The Creed of the Kromon (audio story)|The Creed of the Kromon]]'' and ''[[Scherzo (audio story)|Scherzo]]'' are used as Infotainment programmes shown to the citizens of Light City.

* The DJ refers to an unproduced story called ''Dark Rising''. This is a reference to an intended audio drama written by [[Mike Tucker]] which would have pitted the [[Seventh Doctor]] against the [[Anthony Ainley]] version of {{Ainley}}. Tucker eventually wrote the audio story ''[[Dust Breeding (audio story)|Dust Breeding]]'' in which the Master was played by [[Geoffrey Beevers]].

* Following his introduction in the audio story ''[[The Creed of the Kromon (audio story)|The Creed of the Kromon]]'', this is the only story in the Divergent Universe arc in which the [[Kro'ka]] does not appear.

* Mortimore chronicled the development of the script in the book "[[Unnatural Selection (book)|Unnatural Selection]]", released by [[Miwk Publishing]] in 2014.

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* [https://miwk.square.site/product/unnatural-selection-jim-mortimore/276?si=true '''''Unnatural Selection''''' by Jim Mortimore at Miwk Publishing]

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== Footnotes ==