Paper Cuts (audio story)

Paper Cuts was released in September 2009, and features the return of the Draconians, a race that had previously been in four Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series audio stories.

Publisher's summary
The Empire is lost. The Deathless Emperors are dead. The future may never happen.

An urgent summons returns the noble Doctor to a planet he saved from disaster long ago. But Draconia, so elegant yet so savage, is in worse turmoil than ever.

Who will be next Emperor? The highest Prince? The lowest peasant? The soldier with no name? Or the Doctor himself – his life at their command? Who controls the army of deadly origami warriors? And is the truth about Charley painted on paper walls in the Emperor’s tomb?

History is taking revenge on the Doctor.

Cast

 * The Doctor - Colin Baker
 * Charley Pollard / Mila - India Fisher
 * Prince and The Red Emperor in His Youth - Anthony Glennon
 * Tombkeeper and Queen Mother - Sara Crowe
 * Gomori and Steward - Paul Thornley
 * Soldier - John Banks
 * Prefect and The Deathless Red Emperor - Nicholas Briggs
 * Sazou and Deathless Emperors

Continuity

 * The Draconians first appeared in DW: Frontier in Space.
 * There are a number of references to the Doctor's prior visit to Draconia and the galactic plague that he helped end whilst there. However, there is no description of what he looked like then beyond not being the Sixth Doctor. The Target book, Doctor Who and the Space War established it as his second incarnation, while the booklet shows a drawing of the First Doctor playing chess against a Draconian and in the audio drama the Doctor remarks off-handedly on how old he once looked.

Timeline

 * Paper Cuts occurs after BFA: Patient ZERO
 * Paper Cuts occurs before BFA: Blue Forgotten Planet