The Curse of Davros (audio story)

The Curse of Davros is the first story in the 2012 Sixth Doctor audio trilogy.

Publishers summary
It's been a year since Philippa 'Flip' Jackson found herself transported by Tube train to battle robot mosquitoes on a bizarre alien planet in the company of a Time Lord known only as 'the Doctor'.

Lightning never strikes twice, they say. Only now there's a flying saucer whooshing over the top of the night bus taking her home. Inside: the Doctor, with another extraterrestrial menace on his tail – the Daleks, and their twisted creator Davros!

But while Flip and the fugitive Doctor struggle to beat back the Daleks' incursion into 21st century London, Davros's real plan is taking shape nearly 200 years in the past, on the other side of the English Channel. At the battle of Waterloo...

Cast

 * The Doctor / Davros - Colin Baker
 * Flip Jackson - Lisa Greenwood
 * Davros / The Doctor - Terry Molloy
 * Jared - Ashley Kumar
 * Napoléon Bonaparte - Jonathan Owen
 * Captain Pascal - Rhys Jennings
 * The Duke of Wellington - Granville Saxton
 * Marshal Ney - Robert Portal
 * Captain Dickson - Christian Patterson
 * The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs

Continuity

 * Flip and Jared recall the events of BFA: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster, which occurred one year earlier in their personal timelines. Jared mentions that he still has D.I. Patricia Menzies' mobile phone number somewhere.
 * The Second Doctor was also present at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. In the course of the same adventure, he had extensive contact with both Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington. (PDA: World Game) During his eighth incarnation, his companion Charley Pollard would later befriend the elderly Duke at the British Exhibition in 1851. (BFA: Other Lives) Much earlier in his personal timeline, the First Doctor had met Napoleon on the Russian front in 1812 (CC: Mother Russia), which Iris Wildthyme would later claim to have also done (BFIW: The Panda Invasion, BFIW: The Claws of Santa). Furthermore, the First Doctor's companions Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright had earlier been in Napoleon's presence in a tavern in Paris on 28 July 1794 but did not actually speak to him. (DW: The Reign of Terror)
 * When Flip enquires after Evelyn Smythe, the Doctor tells her that she left the TARDIS in order to spend the rest of her life with "a chap called Rossiter." (BFA: Thicker than Water)
 * The Doctor tells Flip that Davros' life support chariot does not feature a button with which his life support can be deactivated. This would suggest that Davros has redesigned the chair since he first met the Fourth Doctor on Skaro. (DW: Genesis of the Daleks)

For the Sixth Doctor

 * This story takes place after BFA: Thicker than Water (flashback)
 * This story takes place before BFA: The Fourth Wall

For Davros

 * This story takes place after BFA: The Davros Mission
 * This story takes place before BFA: The Juggernauts

For Flip and Jared

 * This story takes place one year after BFA: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster