The Time of the Daleks (audio story)

Publisher's summary
The Doctor has always admired the work of William Shakespeare. So he is a little surprised that Charley doesn’t hold the galaxy’s greatest playwright in the same esteem. In fact, she’s never heard of him.

Which the Doctor thinks is quite improbable.

General Mariah Learman, ruling Britain after the Eurowars, is one of Shakespeare’s greatest admirers, and is convinced her time machine will enable her to see the plays’ original performances.

Which the Doctor believes is extremely unlikely.

The Daleks just want to help. They want Learman to get her time machine working. They want Charley to appreciate the first-ever performance of Julius Caesar. They believe that Shakespeare is the greatest playwright ever to have existed and venerate his memory.

Which the Doctor knows is utterly impossible.

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Paul McGann
 * Charley Pollard - India Fisher
 * General Mariah Learman - Dot Smith
 * Viola Learman - Nicola Boyce
 * Major Ferdinand - Julian Harries
 * Priestly - Mark McDonnell
 * Hart - Lee Moone
 * Professor Osric - Ian Brooker
 * The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs
 * The Daleks / Yokel - Clayton Hickman
 * Marcus - Robert Curbishley
 * Mark Anthony / Army Officer / Tannoy - Ian Potter
 * Rassilon - Don Warrington
 * Kitchen Boy - Jem Bassett

Continuity

 * The Daleks using mirrors for time travel first appeared in DW: The Evil of the Daleks.
 * Orson Welles did not recognise a Shakespearean quotation in BFA: Invaders from Mars. The Doctor comments on this incongruity by referring to the fact that Welles made several Shakespearean films in the proper timeline.
 * The Daleks' previous forays into information gathering were in BFA: The Genocide Machine and The Apocalypse Element.
 * A Dalek which goes through the mirrors ends up in a Roman fort in Londinium in Britannia in 305. (BFA: Seasons of Fear)
 * BFA: Neverland reveals the identity of the narrator quoting Shakespeare as well as the cause of the time disruptions.
 * EDA: Trading Futures makes reference to Learman.
 * DW: Revelation of the Daleks first demonstrated how humans could be turned into Daleks.
 * Mirrors were also used by UNIT for the purpose of time travel in DW: Turn Left.
 * Later in his personal timeline, Shakespeare would meet the First Doctor (MA: The Empire of Glass), the Fourth Doctor (MA: The Empire of Glass, DW: Planet of Evil, DW: City of Death, DWM: The Stranger, The Writer, His Wife and the Mixed Metaphor), the Fifth Doctor (BFA: The Kingmaker), the Ninth Doctor (DWM: A Groatsworth of Wit) and the Tenth Doctor (DW: The Shakespeare Code). With the exception of the latter two incidents, all of these encounters occurred many years earlier in the Doctor's personal timeline than the events of Time and the Daleks.

For the Doctor

 * The Time of the Daleks occurs after ST: The Heroine, the Hero and the Megalomaniac
 * The Time of the Daleks occurs before ST: Apocrypha Bipedium

For the Daleks

 * The Time of the Daleks occurs after BFA: The Mutant Phase
 * The Time of the Daleks occurs before BFDE: Invasion of the Daleks