Foreshadowing (audio story)

 was the eighth story of the fifth season of Big Finish Productions' Short Trips series. It was read by India Fisher.

Publisher's summary
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...

Plot
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Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * Charlotte Pollard
 * Mike Yates
 * Warrant officer
 * Corporal Harris
 * Jenkins
 * Group captain
 * Time Roach

Worldbuilding

 * 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.
 * The Doctor's appearance is compared to that of Lord Byron.
 * The Doctor serves tea.
 * 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.

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)