Thicker Than Water (audio story)

Publisher's summary
Three years after Világ was all but laid waste by the Killorans, the Doctor is back alongside a different companion. And a lot has changed.

Now elected Principle Triumvir, head of a tripartite government, Rossiter is working to secure a peaceful future for the planet by researching the technology the Killorans left behind. But he has to contend with opposition from his daughter, Sofia, who heads a public campaign demanding the destruction of all alien artefacts.

Politics has caused a rift between father and daughter, and as if that weren't enough, Sofia doesn't approve of her new stepmother either. Emotions soon boil over into violence -- violence that seems to have gripped the entire city.

Friendships bind people close, but they say that blood is...

Cast

 * The Doctor - Colin Baker
 * Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
 * Melanie Bush - Bonnie Langford
 * Principal Triumvir Rossiter - Gabriel Woolf
 * Dr Sofia Rossiter - Rachel Pickup
 * Dr Andrew Szabó - Patrick Romer
 * Dr Sebastian Lawrence - Simon Watts
 * Jenner - Matt Dineen
 * TV Interviewer - James Parsons

Continuity

 * This is a sequel to BFA: Arrangements for War.

For Mel and the Doctor

 * Thicker than Water occurs after: ST: Old Boys
 * Thicker than Water occurs before: BFA: The Wishing Beast

For Evelyn

 * Thicker than Water occurs after: BFA: Industrial Evolution
 * Thicker than Water occurs before: BFA: A Death in the Family