An Earthly Child (audio story)

Publisher's summary
Thirty years on from the Daleks' invasion of Earth, the scars still haven't healed. The survivors inhabit a world thrown back two hundred years, a world of crop shortages and civil unrest. A world where the brightest and best of its young people are drawn to the xenophobic Earth United group.

A world sliding into a new Dark Age, believes Susan Campbell, widow of one of the heroes of the Occupation. A world in need of alien intervention. A world in need of hope. But as Susan takes drastic action to secure the planet's future, she's oblivious to the fact that her student son, Alex, ensnared by Earth United, is in need of alien intervention too. Or so Alex's great-grandfather thinks.

Cast

 * The Eighth Doctor - Paul McGann
 * Susan Campbell - Carol Ann Ford
 * Alex Campbell - Jake McGann
 * Holly Barrett - Sheryl Gannaway
 * Marion Fleming/Hope - Leslie Ash
 * Faisal Jensen/Reporter - Matt Addis
 * Duncan - Ian Hallard
 * President of the Earth Council/Policeman/Air Control/Helicopter Pilot/Reporter - Ian Brooker

Continuity

 * Earth is still in ruins some thirty years after the end of the decade long Dalek occupation. (DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
 * Susan remembers her last encounter with the Doctor in the Death Zone on Gallifrey and comments that he was in his fifth incarnation at the time. (DW: The Five Doctors)
 * Susan's husband, David Campbell, died several years earlier. (EDA: Legacy of the Daleks)

For the Doctor

 * An Earthly Child occurs after BFA: Death in Blackpool
 * An Earthly Child occurs before BFA: Situation Vacant

For Susan

 * An Earthly Child occurs after DW: The Five Doctors
 * An Earthly Child occurs before BFA: Relative Dimensions