Sympathy for the Devil (audio story)

 was the second Doctor Who Unbound audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. It featured David Warner as the Doctor with Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (retired). This story was set post-The War Games though in an alternate universe where the Doctor did not arrive on Earth for his exile in the 1970s but instead in 1997.

Publisher's summary
1997... and a lone exile arrives on Earth, years later than planned.

On the eve of the Handover, an advanced Chinese stealth bomber crashes in the hills above Hong Kong. The discredited United Nations Intelligence Taskforce has just 24 hours to steal the technology, rescue the passenger and flee to international waters.

Down by the harbour, there’s big trouble in Little England -- a bar owned by an old soldier who simply wants to forget the past. But an ancient evil is stirring in a place of peace.

The Doctor finds a world on the brink of terror. A world that has lived without him for years. A world that is frighteningly like our own...

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * The Doctor - David Warner
 * Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney
 * Colonel Ross Brimmicombe-Wood - David Tennant
 * The Master (Colonel Ke Le) - Sam Kisgart
 * Ling - Liz Sutherland
 * The Abbot - Trevor Littledale
 * Marcus - Mark Wright
 * Captain Zerdin - Peter Griffiths
 * Adam - Stuart Piper

The Doctor

 * The Doctor says he can speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Manchu, Mongolian and Haikun.
 * To the Chinese, he is known as Hu: the Tiger, for his courage; Hu: the Fox, for his cunning and Xue: Doctor (he who tends to the sick). The last is his personal favourite.

History

 * The Boxer Rebellion is said to have been the result of the mind parasites.

The Master

 * The Master briefly worked as a United Nations advisor before defecting to China.
 * The defection, along with UNIT trying to seize Chinese technology, imply China has left the UN.