Dead London
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Dead London is an audio drama based on the long-running British
United Kingdom
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 science fiction television
Science fiction on television
Science fiction first appeared on a television program during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of reality; this makes television an excellent medium...

 series Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...

.

Cast

  • The Doctor
    Doctor (Doctor Who)
    The Doctor is the central character in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, and has also featured in two cinema feature films, a vast range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips connected to the series....

     — Paul McGann
    Paul McGann
    Paul McGann is an English actor who made his name on the BBC serial The Monocled Mutineer, in which he played the lead role...

  • Lucie Miller
    Lucie Miller
    Lucie Miller is a character in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions for BBC7 based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...

     — Sheridan Smith
    Sheridan Smith
    Sheridan Smith is an English actress and singer who is best known for her contributions to the British sitcoms Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Gavin & Stacey and Benidorm. She has also become a recognised face in West End theatre, where she has appeared in Little Shop of Horrors,...

  • Sepulchre — Rupert Vansittart
    Rupert Vansittart
    Rupert Vansittart is an English character actor. He has appeared in a variety of roles in film, television, radio and on stage, often playing comic or serio-comic characters....

  • Spring-Heeled Sophie — Clare Buckfield
    Clare Buckfield
    Clare Buckfield is an English actress, best known for playing the role of Jenny Porter in the BBC sitcom 2point4 children for most of the nineties and Natasha Stevens in the CBBC series Grange Hill.-Biography:...

  • Clerks - Richard Laing
  • Yellow Beryl - Katarina Olsson

Production and Casting

  • Katarina Olsson has previously appeared in several Big Finish audio plays including the previous Eighth Doctor audio season as the Headhunter.
  • Clare Buckfield was also in the previous season, playing the character Trisha Tomorrow in Horror of Glam Rock
    Horror of Glam Rock
    Horror of Glam Rock is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions and was broadcast on BBC 7 on 14 January 2007.-Plot:...

    . She was also in The One Doctor
    The One Doctor
    The One Doctor is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.- Plot :The Sixth Doctor and Mel come up against an impostor Doctor and his companion Sally-Anne....

    , alongside the Sixth Doctor
    Sixth Doctor
    The Sixth Doctor is the sixth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Colin Baker...

    . Her twin sister Julie
    Julie Buckfield
    Julie Buckfield is an English actress.A graduate of the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London, Buckfield started her career aged 11 in the Cameron Mackintosh production of Les Misérables. She then auditioned for the part of Chrissy Mainwaring in BBC 1 teenage soap Grange Hill, but eventually won...

     was heard in Return to the Web Planet
    Return to the Web Planet
    Return to the Web Planet is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...

    .

Continuity

  • The Doctor makes a brief passing reference to a previous encounter with the Sea Devils.
  • The Second Doctor
    Second Doctor
    The Second Doctor is the second incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by character actor Patrick Troughton....

     encountered the real Judge Jeffries in The Glorious Revolution
    The Glorious Revolution (Doctor Who audio)
    The Glorious Revolution is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...

    .

Radio broadcast

Following its release on CD, Dead London was broadcast in the UK on BBC Radio 7 on the 19th October 2008.

External links

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